Several posts this week about game theory as applied to various circumstances. There were some very creative applications, ranging from loolooloocy’s analysis of the dating games in TV show HOUSE, to several political issues: the Israel and Hezbollah conflict, democratization in Russia, presidential elections, and the Cold War.
Many of these posts give examples of […]

There are several interesting topics covered in recent posts on the course blog. For starters, it’s looking like we can find examples pretty much everywhere of networks that behave according to the rules we learn in class. Students have found examples in everything from investing within one’s network in the financial industry to Republican party […]

In the past week there have been several additional interesting posts to the class blog. At this point the number of new posts is small enough that we can briefly comment on each of them. There were two posts on game theory. amcoops245 discussed the need to use mixed strategies in playing poker. Poker […]

As a way to summarize some of the activity on the Networks class blog, the course staff will be posting to a “digest blog” that will run in parallel with the main class blog. Once the blog schedule gets up to full speed next week, there will be more content than we can possibly hope […]