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	Amazon.ca: Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness: Books: Duncan J. Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Watts begins with a simple observation: clustered networks, networks characterized by a large fraction of short ties and a small fraction of 'shortcuts' linking clusters with one another, appear in diverse settings and more frequently than might be expected.
		Watts illustrates the subtleties of this relationship using a variety of simple models---the spread of infectious disease through a structured population; the evolution of cooperation in game theory; the computational capacity of cellular automata; and the sychronisation of coupled phase-oscillators.
		Duncan J. Watts, who received his Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University in 1997, is a postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
	www.amazon.ca /gp/product/product-description/0691005419/ref=dp_proddesc_0/702-6899366-6137648?ie=UTF8&n=916520&s=books (1526 words)

	JoSS: Journal of Social Structure
		Watts argues that the ability of organizations to adapt depends on the degree to which they can take on small world properties, thereby efficiently reducing the social distance between individuals who might need to be connected.
		Watts argues that this capability will be enhanced to the degree to which the organization possesses “multilevel connectivity”.
		Watts has reminded us that the large-scale properties of a network system matter, and it is up to us to figure out how to devise empirical studies that take these properties into account.
	www.cmu.edu /joss/content/reviews/Podolny (1186 words)

	Duncan J. Watts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Duncan J. Watts is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, head of the CDG Collective Dynamics Group and author of the book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Norton, 2003).
		In 1998, in conjunction with Steven Strogatz of Cornell University, Watts formalized the small world phenomenon in a celebrated Nature paper (393:440 - 442).
		Watts is also affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duncan_J._Watts (101 words)

	Decentralized Intelligence - What Toyota can teach the 9/11 commission about intelligence gathering. By Duncan Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Duncan Watts is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University and author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.
		Watts' assertion that intelligence centralization is doomed to failure is generally on-target with one exception: control-mode centralization is not what the 9/11 commission has recommended.
		It's difficult to imagine what alternative Watts might recommend, and he closes the article by musing that there are no easy answers.
	slate.msn.com /id/2104808 (2363 words)

	Small World Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		M. Newman, A. Barabasi, and D. Watts (Eds).
		N. Hanaki, A. Peterhansl, P. Dodds, and D. Watts.
		D. Watts, P. Dodds, R. Muhamad, and D. Medina.
	smallworld.columbia.edu /watts.html (539 words)

	Columbia News ::: Sociology's Watts Analyzes Six Degrees of Separation Through Cyberspace
		Columbia sociologist Duncan Watts and a team of researchers will apply a 21st century test to a 1960s theory, six degree of separation, which contends that all people in the United States are connected through a chain of no more than six people.
		Watts and his team are trying to determine if the six degrees theory applies worldwide and through e-mail.
		The New York Times' Dec. 20 Circuits section focused on Watts' work, which is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Columbia's Strategic Initiatives Program of the Office of the Executive Vice Provost, Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) and the Intel Corporation.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/01/12/duncanWatts.html (254 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Milgram's even more outrageous obedience experiment, which Watts includes, also deserves a footnote: subjects refused to obey (a) when the experimenter broke the rules and gave reasons for the order and (b) when they were able to reconstruct their roles outside the laboratory.
		Watts claims to be a mathematician, but all he seems to have done is to construct some simple mathematical models and run computer simulations on these.
		Watts with his crisp writing and enough facts of groundbreaking experiments has substantiated the phenomenon of a connected age.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393041425?v=glance (2836 words)

	Duncan J. Watts - Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age - 0393041425 - Books at BookPicker.com
		In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of the new science of networks, lays out nothing less than a new way to understand our connected planet.
		Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet until recently the fundamental nature of the networks themselves has remained shrouded in mystery.
		However, in the past few years, Watts and others have spearheaded a new generation of research that is rapidly revealing the rules by which networks grow, the patterns they form, and the way in which they drive collective behavior.
	bookpicker.com /book/0393041425/Six+Degrees:+The+...+Connected+Age.html (156 words)

	Additional Reviews and/or Endorsements for Watts, D.: Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and ...
		With examples ranging from the Kevin Bacon Game to models for the spread of diseases, Watts provides a clear description of how the structure of small-world networks can be characterized and a sense of how the interconnectivity of such networks can lead to intriguing dynamics.
		Watts begins with a simple observation: clustered networks, networks characterized by a large fraction of short ties and a small fraction of 'shortcuts' linking clusters with one another, appear in diverse settings and more frequently than might be expected.
		Watts then demonstrates that the dynamical behavior of these networks is highly sensitive to structure.
	pup.princeton.edu /quotes/q6768.html (403 words)

	Amazon.ca: Six Degrees: Gateway: Duncan Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Watts tells a fascinating tale of statisticians, social workers, mathematicians, physicists, network engineers, and several other disciplines whose work derives from or adds to the whole science of networks and connectedness.
		Duncan J. Watts, the author of this book, unlike other specialists in their area who often take an absolute and definite view in their opinions, instead adapted a more humble attitude in his own works.
		Duncan Watts presents his findings and discoveries in the amazing new science of networks in a most deferential way; he is quick to acknowledge the contributions of others and modestly understates the significance of his own amazing findings.
	www.amazon.ca /gp/product/0393325423/701-8474402-4163501?v=glance&n=916520&s=gateway&v=glance (2135 words)

	Posts tagged "duncan watts" at Micromotives — The Science & Art of Decision Making
		Watts and Hasker argue that when a consumer’s interest in a given product is driven by how popular the product seems to be with others in the consumer’s social network, predicting whether a product will be a success or not becomes very difficult.
		Columbia sociology professor Duncan Watts is leading practitioner of this approach to the study of social science, and has popularized the dynamics of social networks with his books Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age and Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness.
		The Collective Dynamics Group is a dedicated research effort, led by Professor Duncan Watts, the unifying theme of which is the application of modern mathematical and computational techniques to problems relevant to the social sciences.
	www.micromotives.com /tag/duncan-watts (1104 words)

	7.5th Floor » Blog Archive » The Six Degrees of Duncan Watts at TAICON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Duncan Watts, the writer of “Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age” gave a talk at a TAICON event.
		His talk sketches out the scholarly history of the small world problem (alongside its meteoric rise in popular culture), from its origins in sociology up to the recent explosion of work in physics and mathematics that uses it as a central reference point.
		In the modern world, it is not enough to recognize that we are all connected; we must go further to understand both the patterns of these connections and the way they drive our individual and collective behavior.
	www.girardin.org /fabien/blog/2005/04/08/the-six-degree-of-duncan-watts-at-taicon (158 words)

	NESTA - Six degrees of interconnection by Duncan Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When we talk about 'distance', we are usually referring to the separation between places or objects in physical space.
		Duncan Watts is the author of 'Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age' (W. Norton, New York, 2003).
		He is associate professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where he directs the Collective Dynamics Group, and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.
	www.nesta.org.uk /inspireme/think_integration.html (1472 words)

	Unintended Consequences: Watts Illuminates Networks
		Duncan Watts studies the science of networks at Columbia under a grant from the National Science Foundation.
		By training a sociologist who started with the "Six Degress of Separation" theory of social networks, Watts' multi-disciplinary studies extend into economic and scientific systems.
		At Columbia's website, Watts is quoted: "The study of social networks has a 50-year history, but the statistical analysis of large social and economic networks is only just becoming feasible," said Watts.
	www.dougsimpson.com /blog/archives/000066.html (290 words)

	Duncan Watts Llp - Firm Profile (Legal500.com)
		The firm: The practice was founded in 1989 by Duncan Watts, who previously headed the matrimonial departments of two large local practices.
		In January 2003 the practice became a limited liability partnership with Watts working in a consultancy role until retiring in 2004.
		Duncan Watts intend to build further on its successful business model while improving its office systems and upgrading its information technology.
	www.icclaw.com /l500/firms/fp/ukf7717.htm (441 words)

	Watts, D.: Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness.
		Watts illustrates the subtleties of this relationship using a variety of simple models---the spread of infectious disease through a structured population; the evolution of cooperation in game theory; the computational capacity of cellular automata; and the sychronisation of coupled phase-oscillators.
		Duncan J. Watts, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.
		"Duncan Watts has created that rarity of rarities: a book with enough fascinating facts and stories to keep the casual reader turning the pages coupled with enough engaging detail to satisfy the most technically sophisticated reader.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/6768.html (626 words)

	The real case against a national director of intelligence. - By Duncan Watts - Slate Magazine
		Duncan Watts is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University and author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.
		Watts' assertion that intelligence centralization is doomed to failure is generally on-target with one exception: control-mode centralization is not what the 9/11 commission has recommended.
		It's difficult to imagine what alternative Watts might recommend, and he closes the article by musing that there are no easy answers.
	www.slate.com /id/2104808 (2363 words)

	Dispatches Weblog
		In a global study that included 60,000 participants via email, Duncan Watts and his colleagues have taken their shot.
		Watts notes in a recent New York Times article on the study (which I've taken the liberty of annotating in PDF), "Just because President Bush is six degrees from me doesn't mean I'm going to be invited for dinner at the White House.
		Watts and his colleagues are digging deeper into how people decide whom to message (and, presumably, whom to respond).
	radio.weblogs.com /0111718/2003/08/12.html (257 words)

	Citations: small-world - Duncan, Steven, Collective, of (ResearchIndex)
		Watts, D. and Strogatz, S. H., Collective dynamics of `small-world' networks, Nature 393, 440--442 (1998).
		Watts D. and Strogatz S. H., Collective dynamics of "small-world" networks, Nature 393 (1998) pp.
		Watts, D., and Strogatz, S. Collective dynamics of `small-world' networks.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/693649/0 (372 words)

	Many-to-Many: Comment on Duncan Watts on Collective Intelligence
		Watts explains most of the ideas on the book (also the "Small Worlds" one)and don't give anythng different, I think.
		Although, there's one thing that bothers me which is that people like Pierre Lévy and Derrick de Kerckhove have been talking about this sort of intelligence and how it emerges for centuries (ok, maybe not "centuries", but for some time).
		But still, Watts writes as if everything was fresh and new and discovered just now.
	www.corante.com /cgi-bin/mt/mt-spiegare.cgi?entry_id=5627 (916 words)

	Duncan Watts \| ISERP
		Duncan Watts is professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he directs the Collective Dynamics Group (http://cdg.columbia.edu).
		His research interests include the structure and evolution of social networks, the origins and dynamics of social influence, and the nature of distributed "social" search.
		Watts, P. Dodds, R. Muhamad, and D. Medina.
	www.iserp.columbia.edu /people/watts.html (302 words)

	Hijacked in Borneo - Delta - Duncan Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	ETH - International Conflict Research - Duncan Watts: "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age"
		ETH - International Conflict Research - Duncan Watts: "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age"
		ETH Zurich - D-GESS - CIS - ICR - TAICON - Events - Duncan Watts
		Duncan Watts: "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age"
	www.icr.ethz.ch /taicon/events/watts (376 words)

	Outbreak - In epidemics, is fear a good thing? By Duncan Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Under those circumstances, it's OK to be a little afraid—in fact, our fear may be what saves us.
		Watts points out, may leave us less likely to believe the hype the next time.
		The free and rapid spread of the most current information, that which was sorely lacking in the Chinese health ministries, likely played a much larger role than hysteria.
	slate.msn.com /id/2082308 (1448 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To illustrate the often complicated mathematics that describe such structures, Watts uses plenty of examples from real life, without which this book would quickly move beyond a general science readership.
		Some of the lessons of this thought-provoking book are that distance is deceptive and that in connected systems, cause and effect are related in complicated and sometimes misleading ways.
		In the latter regard, Watts discusses the many initial rejections that Kerouac's later very popular classic On The Road had to endure and the similar case of Rowling's first Harry Potter book.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393325423 (712 words)

	Citations: Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks - Watts, Strogatz (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Duncan Watts and Steven Strogatz, "Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks," Nature, vol.
		Duncan J. Watts, Steven H. Strogatz, Collective dynamics of 'smallworld ' networks, Nature 393:440--442.
		Watts and S. Strogatz, "Collective dynamics of small-world networks," in Nature 393, June 1998.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/46576/0 (363 words)

	Columbia News ::: Video ::: Sociology's Duncan Watts Tests Six Degrees of Separation Theory in Cyberspace
		Sociology's Duncan Watts Tests Six Degrees of Separation Theory in Cyberspace
		Columbia sociologists Peter Sheridan Dodds, Duncan Watts and their colleagues have published the first results of the Small World Project, which uses the Internet to test the six degrees of separation theory.
		In this previously recorded video, Watts explains the theory that originated in the 1960s and contends that people are connected through a chain of no more than six people.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/media/01/duncanWatts (117 words)

	Criminal Procedure by John M. Scheb, ISBN 053452575X And Six Degrees by Duncan J. Watts, ISBN 0393041425 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Criminal Procedure by John M. Scheb, ISBN 053452575X And Six Degrees by Duncan J. Watts, ISBN 0393041425
		Six Degrees by Duncan J. Watts, ISBN 0393041425
		Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of the connected planet.
	psa-group.com /procedure.htm (200 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Small Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Duncan has done a tremendous job in building experimetal and theoretical models trying to understand how these graphs come about and sustain themselves.
		One reason therefore is certainly the outstanding article by Watts and Strogatz, Collective dynamics of small world networks, Nature, 393:440--442, 1998.
		Mathematical level: Moderate; there's no calculus, and little high level math, but the book is quite mathematical in tone, and some of the arguments may be difficult to follow without a good "math sense".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691005419?v=glance (1418 words)

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