Connect, They Say, Only Connect
By EMILY EAKIN (NYTimes - today)
The whiteboard in Duncan J. Watts's office at Columbia University was a
thicket of squiggly blue lines, circles and calculus equations. Mr. Watts,
an associate professor of sociology, had just begun a passionate
disquisition on the virtues and liabilities of scale-free networks when the
telephone rang. It was Alfred Berkeley, the vice chairman of Nasdaq, hoping
to chat about the exchange's design.
Mr. Watts, 31, is a network theorist. And these days that means fielding
frequent calls from powerful admirers like Mr. Berkeley
Connect, They Say, Only Connect
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