Alessandro Vespignani

Validation for Flu Prediction

January 7, 2013 — No Comments ↓

Alex Vespignani is the Sternberg Distinguished Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences.

As news of the latest outbreak is upon us, Vespignani and his colleagues recently published an article in the journal BMC Medicine that offers definitive proof of a strong agreement between the predictions and the real-life surveillance data collected in 2009.

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Northeastern researcher elected president of the Complex Systems Society

December 4, 2012 — No Comments ↓

The science of complex systems was born in the mid-20th century, but it has only recently begun to mature into a research field with real-world relevance.

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