that's what all those super-duper 'hairballs' are... Here are the links I assembled for others. I don't think cryptography algorithms (throughput channels) define a network in the sense of forming 'a' network. Until anyone listens to my suggestion ( a couple notes ago ) I think they're bound to be 'windowless monads' of a sort, but still highly useful. NetSci conference: <http://www.nd.edu/~netsci/conference.html> http://www.nd.edu/~netsci/conference.html
All the videos and displays of the 6 days of talks are expected to be made available. Roughly half were purely theoretical, concerning the abstract properties of networks of links, and half were about the networks identified in various kinds of biological, social or economic systems. If there's one that stuck in my mind, both for clarity and for potential value, it was Ricardo Hausmann's model of 'product space' (Wednesday) identifying specific learning pathways for national economic development based on the empirical networks of knowledge communities found in their mix of different products and services. Much of the content of the conference was highly technical, concerning the use of fancy new analytical tools, developed from scratch by the presenter or with using the new open source software built with national research grants, such as: Network Workbench - <http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu/> http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu/ Social Action - <http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction/> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction/ Links to the main centers are Notre Dame <http://www.nd.edu/~networks/> http://www.nd.edu/~networks/ and Laszlo's page <http://www.nd.edu/~alb/> http://www.nd.edu/~alb/ MIT <http://web.media.mit.edu/~barahona/main/links/SNA.htm> http://web.media.mit.edu/~barahona/main/links/SNA.htm Harvard <http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/> http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/ There are several other research communities exploring other aspects of complex information analysis and display, visualization of data is the general term, helping to push the limits of what we can understand... and hopefully also discover why we constantly have to. Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/>
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