Connected
Into a Shared Future

Date : 2011. 05. 25~27 / Location : Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel Seoul, Korea
The Digital World Seen by a Complex Network Analysis : What Are the Hidden Patterns Behind What We Do?

2011.05.25

Visionary:
 - Albert-László BARABÁSI [Professor & Director, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University]

Symposiarch :
 - Ha-Woong Jeong [Professor, Physics, KAIST]

We surf the web, send emails and walk by a security camera making phone calls on our cell phone.
What can we figure out from all of the electronic data that we are unaware of giving up?
What does the cell phone tell us about the pattern of our movements?
Is there a rule in how and when people send e-mails?
When do people usually visit the World Wide Web?
How long does a new news story last?
Now in an age when interest is moving from the individual to the group of people around the individual how much of our behavior is predictable?
And what does it mean when complex network analysis shows that all this is predictable?
Where does the issue of privacy stand?
In the future, who will possess the information about human behavior?
Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, introduces complex network analysis to the world.