Scale Free Networks
What We’re Reading: “Linked”, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
| Title: | What We’re Reading: “Linked”, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi |
| URL: | http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2006/12/24/what-were-reading-linked-by-albert-laszlo-barabasi/ |
| Printed: | March 18, 2010 |
| Source: | The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com |
- December 24, 2006
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Why do early hubs like Yahoo have a tremendous advantage? How can later entrants like Google ever sieze share? Why is the internet robust to random damage but vulnerable to terrorist attack?
Why did AIDS spread so rapidly? Why are a handful of hub genes
involved in so many traits? Albert-Laszlo Barabasi uses scale-free network theory to answer these questions in “Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means”.
