High School Dating
(Bearman, Moody, and Stovel, 2004)
(Image by Mark Newman)


Corporate E-Mail Communication
(Adamic and Adar, 2005; image by the authors)

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Networks

Spring 2007

Economics 204 / Sociology 209 / Computer Science 285 / Information Science 204
Cornell University
Mon-Wed-Fri 11:15-12:05, Ives 305

David Easley (Economics) and Jon Kleinberg (Computer Science)

Note: This is not the current semester's course Web page. For current course information, handouts, and homework assignments, please visit the present semester's version of the course.

A course on how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Topics include: how opinions, fads, and political movements spread through society; the robustness and fragility of food webs and financial markets; and the technology, economics, and politics of Web information and on-line communities.

The course is designed at the introductory undergraduate level with no formal prerequisites; it satisfies the Arts & Sciences Social and Behavioral Analysis (SBA) distribution and the Engineering Liberal Studies (SBA group) distribution. (See also the poster announcing the course.)

See below for more information, including the class blog and digest blog, the list of handouts, the outline of topics (including links to readings), the schedule of office hours, and the CMS site (which includes the Cornell-restricted readings).


Course Staff


Class Blog

There is a class weblog that we will be maintaining as part of the course, and posting to the blog will be part of the graded coursework, as described in the accompanying handout. The blog is hosted at Cornell, as part of the Expert Voices Gateway of the National Science Digital Library.

Information about the mechanics of posting can be found in the opening blog post.

The course staff will also be maintaining a parallel digest blog, designed to provide a quick overview of what's going on in the class blog, with links to particular posts and comments on related resources.


List of Handouts


Outline of Topics

Books


Office Hours

158 and 159 Myron Taylor (Prof. Kleinberg's and Easley's offices) are in the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS); see the Directions to ISS for information on how to get there.


Prerequisites

Coursework

Academic Integrity