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Date of publication: 13. 12. 2011
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University of Nova Gorica invites to the lecture: “Web as a Laboratory for Studying Humanity” by Prof. Dr. Jure Leskovec (Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University).

Lecture will take place on Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 7 p.m. at the mansion Zemono (Vipava). Lecture will be in english language.

With an increasing amount of social interaction taking place in on-line settings, we are accumulating massive amounts of data about phenomena that were once essentially invisible to us: the collective behavior and social interactions of hundreds of millions of people. Analyzing this massive data computationally offers enormous potential both to address long-standing scientific questions, and also to harness and inform the design of future social computing applications: What are emerging ideas and trends? How is information being created, how it flows and mutates as it is passed from a node to node like an epidemic? How will a community or a social network evolve in the future?
We discuss how computational perspective can be applied to questions involving structure of online networks and the dynamics of information flows through such networks, including analysis of massive data as well as mathematical models that seek to abstract some of the underlying phenomena.

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