By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center The web, search, and social networking are changing the way students collaborate. To bring these elements together, Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs is launching a site designed to…
The spread of a cascading failure through a network is an issue that comes up in many domains: in the contagious failures that spread among financial institutions during a financial crisis, through nodes of a…
With an increasing amount of social interaction taking place in the digital domain, and often in public on-line settings, we are accumulating enormous amounts of data about phenomena that were once essentially invisible to us:…