Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland

Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science Alex Pentland ebook
Page: 320
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 9781594205651
Format: pdf

Jun 18, 2013 |By Ozgun Atasoy With social media connecting people to an unprecedented degree, it is possible that the sudden emergence of unexpected collective action will be a defining feature of this era. Scientists use physical modeling and empirical validation to trace how networks shrink and grow depending on the actions of both random nodes and well-connected nodes. Dear Alan, thank you for you leadership lessons. May 13, 2014 - When his new book “Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread – Lessons from a New Science” coincided with the Easter holiday break, what better way to spend the break than to consume another Pentland tome? Jun 18, 2013 - The protests in Turkey demonstrate the social physics of highly connected crowds. Darwin, Freud, Marx, Walras, Carnot, Classical physics offered a view of the world that stressed the fundamental orderliness of nature -- the idea that natural phenomena were mathematical and law-governed. May 2, 2014 - His influence is felt through his work at the Exploratorium, the Lawrence Hall of Science and La Villette, a science museum in La Villette Parc, in Paris as well as the 20 years he was director of the New York Hall of Science. May 7, 2014 - Jeff Swensen for The New York TimesStudents at Brashear High School in Pittsburgh during a Saturday prep class for the Advanced Placement physics exam. Frequently, these changes in trends are triggered by a few innovators who rapidly impose their ideas through “viral” influence spreading, producing cascades of followers and fragmenting an old network to create a new one. May 24, 2014 - It's written by Nicholas Wade, who until recently was a science writer for the New York Times. May 2, 2014 - Pentland's book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science" provides a full coverage of his viewpoints. Social media became the Please send suggestions to Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and regular contributor to NewYorker.com. Amazon.com: Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science (9781594205651): Alex Pentland: Books. Alan, we have shared many interests together, and you immediately liked the idea of having a science exhibit from Weizmann on the New York Hall of Science playground. Apr 30, 2014 - The deluge of changes that shook Europe around 1800 -- the making of the modern world -- brought with them an explosion of big new ideas, new ways of framing the social, historical, and natural world which we inhabit.