Weak Links and The War Against Piracy
Only a few weeks ago, Google announced its plan to punish sites that are linked to piracy by rating them lower on searches. This means they won’t appear as top searches anymore or will have a lower rating. So what does this mean for the user and the industries that want to eliminate piracy? Google’s […]
Influence of Facebook Friends
As humans are social animals, social networks are critical in our daily lives. We’ve been deeply weaved into the web, so it’s hard to imagine a person without any connections to other people. Today, the most prevalent online social network site would be Facebook undoubtably. On the election date, the research team had shown a […]
Nervous Yet?
The hairs on the back of your neck stick up in suspicion. You’re positive someone is trailing your steps and quicken your pace. Just to confirm the truth you turn around to view emptiness hanging behind you. Confused, you move forward. A few steps more and you’re sure someone is attacking on your left. You turn […]
Orbeus’s visual recognition engine and its network implications
Computers are improving in their ability to recognize items in normal photographs. A field called computer vision utilizes advanced algorithms to make inferences about data in pictures. You may have already seen examples of image recognition when your camera recognizes the face(s) in a scene before you shoot a picture. Or perhaps you have noticed […]
RFID for Students and Game Theory
Radio frequency identification device (RFID) chips are an electronic numbering system, with unique codes for identification. The implementation of RFID technology is becoming more common; for instance, it is used in passports, cards, and livestock monitoring, and perhaps will even replace barcodes on consumer products. Now it has become a way to monitor students in […]
The Online Social Network with an Offline Focus
AtThePool.com is an online social network that just recently started up. This network caters to people looking to get away from hours of browsing through posts from hundreds of “friends” on facebook and instead wish to make friends with local people with similar interests. The site parallels online dating in its criteria of pairing people: […]
Strong and Weak Ties influencing Facebook Voters
A study was conducted by the scientists from Facebook and the University of California, San Diego using millions of Facebook users on Election Day 2010. On Election Day, nearly every Facebook user who signed on received a “get out the vote” message, which included a reminder that it was a election day, a link to […]
positive vs. negative links
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/world/asia/north-korea-rejects-offer-of-aid-from-south-korea.html?_r=1 This news article is very recent and notifies the readers that South Korea offered humanitarian aid on September 3rd, but North Korea rejected it. North Korea asked what and how much the South planned to offer. If there is an agreement, the two countries will be able to communicate after years refusing to […]
An Analysis of Gang Dynamics
After an analysis of the economic figures of 37 gangs, Professor Steve Levitt concluded that being in a gang is disadvantageous to the individual economically. In his paper, discussing the basic financial and social structure of a gang published some years back, he notes that the most profitable role in gangs involves the sale of […]
The Networks Behind Human Decision Making
When a person is picking where they want to take a vacation, what color suit will look best for an interview, or whether they will go to the gym or not, there is a complex set of thinking that goes along with each decision. In the article “Making Choices: How Your Brain Decides”, Maia Szalavitz […]
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