Social Networks

Facebook makes us feel good about ourselves

“Despite the name ‘social networks,' much user activity on networking sites is self-focused,” said Brittany Gentile, a UGA doctoral candidate who looked at the…

Why Rumors Spread Fast in Social Networks

“It is fascinating,” Tobias Friedrich of the Cluster of Excellence on “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” says. He points out that so far, it has been…

Social networking's good and bad impacts on kids

Social media present risks and benefits to children but parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' activities online are wasting their time, according to…

New Standard Proposed for Supercomputing

The rating system, Graph500, tests supercomputers for their skill in analyzing large, graph-based structures that link the huge numbers of data points present…

Carnegie Mellon researchers save electricity with low-power processors and flash memory

An experimental computing cluster based on this so-called Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN) architecture was able to handle 10 to 100 times as many queries for…

Tracking the digital traces of social networks

But researching such theories on a large scale has never before been possible — until digital social networks came along.Noshir Contractor, the Jane S. and…

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