Duncan J. Watts

Duncan J. Watts ( born February 20, 1971 in Guelph ) is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City and led before the group "Human Social Dynamics " at Yahoo Research. Previously, he was in the years 2000 to 2007 Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where head of the Collective Dynamics Group. He is also an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.

He studied at the University of New South Wales in Australia before he received his doctorate in theoretical and applied mechanics at Cornell University. Together with Steven Strogatz he introduced in 1998 as part of the study of complex systems, a mathematical formalization of the small-world phenomenon before that mattered in the next ten years with 2700 Zitatitionen of the most cited publications in physics .. His work has focused on the connection Stanley Milgram's the repetition of experiments to study the small-world phenomenon by means of e- mail messages.

Writings

  • Everything is Obvious. How common sense fails, 2011 London Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-84887-2141
  • SmallWorlds. The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness ( Princeton Studies in Complexity ), 2004, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-69111-704-7
  • Six Degrees. The Science of a Connected Age, 2003, ISBN 0-39304-142-5
  • ( with Steven Strogatz ). Collective dynamics of 'small -world ' networks, 1998 Nature # 393, S.440 -42 PDF version (in English )

Swell

  • Media scholars
  • Physicist ( 21st century)
  • Australian
  • Born in 1971
  • Man
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