Let’s suppose for a moment, (this is purely hypothetical, of course) that there is a small group of elite institutions of higher education. And suppose that each is about of equal caliber, each attracting roughly the same quality of students. This would present us with a perfectly symmetric system, a veritable boulder sitting […]

Recently, much work has been done to investigate the structure and dynamics of large social networks. Through datasets from online social networking sites, computer scientists are given an unprecedented look into the networks many of us form everyday. One of the key research questions that has arisen is about the growth of online […]

In the mid-90s, when Larry Page was still a graduate student at Stanford University, he started pondering about the Internet and its structure. Before he ever dreamed of creating the world’s greatest search engine, Page was interested in the Web for its mathematical qualities, its network structure. With his deep roots in academia, […]

The date was September 5, 2006, and Facebook, the enormously popular social networking website, unveiled its newest features: the “News Feed” and “Mini-Feed”. The first of the features appears on every Facebook member’s home page, showing their friends’ latest Facebook activities. The second feature, the Mini-Feed, is a module on each member’s profile […]