More than one mil­lion Smart­phones in China have been crippled—an event pre­dicted last year by North­eastern net­work sci­en­tists studying mobile phone viruses

North­eastern researchers tracked the lan­guage of mil­lions of tweets to cap­ture the nation’s polit­ical mood before today’s elections

Net­work researchers at North­eastern use anony­mous cell-​​phone data to create a math­e­mat­ical model that can pre­dict human mobility

North­eastern and Har­vard researchers say those brief icons of the social media age can be a tool to mea­sure the national mood

North­eastern research team develops algo­rithm that could help us under­stand pre­cisely how units in intri­cate bio­log­ical and social net­works interact

Facebook’s newest attempt to resolve the pri­vacy issues raised by users is get­ting mixed reviews. Assis­tant Pro­fessor of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence Alan Mis­love, whose research focuses on how people … read more »

Week­long NetSci 2010 begins at North­eastern with a focus on net­works in the arts and humanities

People around the world can join the online effort to reveal Barabási’s latest book on networks—one word at a time

By estab­lishing human pre­dictability, Northeastern’s leading net­work sci­en­tists hope to address pressing public health and urban devel­op­ment challenges

Com­puter sci­ence pro­fessor says he only needs a mite of infor­ma­tion to fill in Face­book users’ per­sonal data—and he has cre­ated the algo­rithm to back it up

When it comes to the work­ings of the Web, the brain, or a social net­work, physics finds uni­versal truths

Study con­cludes that online Town Halls increase voters’ sup­port for law­makers and par­tic­i­pa­tion in politics