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Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday February 2, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday February 2, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. The next reminder for this event will be sent in 21 hours, 2 minutes. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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Dear a2b3 -

This week's lunch will be a brown bag at the
U of Michigan so that we (er, so that I) can
hear this talk by Mark Newman. Details below.

thanks

Ed

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From: Howard Oishi <hoishi@...>
Date: Jan 30, 2006 1:30 PM
Subject: Networks Seminar Thursday, February 2
To: complex.systems.mailing.list@..., physics.all@...


Thursday, February 2, 2006
Noon - 1 pm
411 West Hall

Our first speaker will be Prof. Mark Newman from the Department of
Physics and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the
University of Michigan, and he will talk about:

"Community structure in social, biological, and information networks"

Many networks show "community structure," meaning that they divide
naturally into tightly knit groups or communities, with many connections
between members of the same community and fewer connections between
members of different community. There is a long history, particularly in
the social sciences, of research on the problem of uncovering such
structure in real-world networks. This problem is also related to,
though distinct from, the problem of "graph partitioning" in computer
science. Using a selection of examples drawn from social,
informational, and biological networks, I will in this talk outline some
of the historical approaches to the community structure problem, and
then talk about some recent developments by my group and others that
show promise for the understanding of community structure in the large
network datasets that have started to appear in the last few years.

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Mark Newman received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the
University of Oxford in 1991. After doing postdoctoral work at Cornell
University, he joined the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute in New
Mexico, where he was a research professor until moving to the University
of Michigan in 2002. He is currently Associate Professor of Physics and
Complex Systems at Michigan, holding a joint appointment in the Physics
Department and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. His
research focuses on the structure and dynamics of networked systems such
as social networks and computer networks.

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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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Thanks to all who came to lunch. A roster

David C. Bloom (who ran off to a meeting)
Kathy Brade (kids are sick)
Mark Smith (kids are also sick)
Richard Tibbetts (telecommutes to Lexington, MA)
Mike Monan
Jose Nazario (tracking a worm that clobbers Word docs)
Edward Vielmetti

in no particular order, we talked about naming
conference rooms after prisons and 1970s
TV shows, remediation of superfund sites,
building toolkits for Web 2.0 applications,
where in town to find people who have ideas
that could be turned into companies, and the like.

thanks

Ed

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+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday January 26, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday January 26, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. The next reminder for this event will be sent in 21 hours, 2 minutes. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday January 19, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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My apologies that the weekly reminder message
has a big honking ad in the middle of it. I am
sorry for that. I'll look into other ways of
making sure a message goes out to the group
even when I'm not looking.

As usual, no topic this week except for the
ordinary things people are working on or
want to discuss. I'll be bringing a nominating
petition to put me on the ballot for the library
board, and I'd love it if you would sign it. I've
learned a bit about Jabber, programming in
python, Z39.50, and instant messaging bots
in the past week, which has been fun.

thanks

Ed

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+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday January 19, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. The next reminder for this event will be sent in 21 hours, 2 minutes. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday January 12, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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FYI on another event that's going to happen
Thursday afternoon, this one on North Campus.
Lada Adamic spoke to a MOCHI meeting on
this same topic and presented some very
interesting data from a large anonymous
Internet retailer on transaction data resulting
from a refer-your-friend promotion.

thanks

Ed

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From: woollams <woollams@...>
Date: Jan 4, 2006 1:48 PM
Subject: Lada Adamic at Jan 12 STIET Seminar
To: stiet-seminar@...


STIET Seminar (Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions)
Thursday, January 12
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg

The Winter 2006 STIET Seminar Series will begin next Thursday with
Lada Adamic of the UM School of Information and takes place in 2906
Cooley, the Baer Conference Room. The Cooley Building is located on
north campus at 2355 Bonisteel, across the street where Bonisteel and
Beal meet. Follow the signs upstairs to the left.

The Dynamics of Viral Marketing

Lada Adamic, Assistant Professor of Information, UM



We present an analysis of a person-to-person recommendation network,
consisting of 4 million people who made 16 million recommendations on
half a million products. We observed the propagation of
recommendations and the cascade sizes, which can be explained by a
stochastic model. We then established how the recommendation network
grows over time and how effective it is from the viewpoint of the
sender and receiver of the recommendations. While on average
recommendations are not very effective at inducing purchases and do
not spread very far, there are product and pricing categories for
which viral marketing seems to be very effective. This is joint work
with Jure Leskovec from CMU and Bernardo Huberman from HP Labs.

Lada A. Adamic is an assistant professor in the School of Information.
Her research interests center on information dynamics in networks: how
information diffuses, how it can be found, and how it influences the
evolution of a network's structure. She worked previously in
Hewlett-Packard's Information Dynamics Lab on research projects
relating to networks constructed from large data sets. These projects
included mining the medical literature for gene-disease connections,
tracking and modeling information flow in E-mail and blog networks,
modeling search processes on real-world social networks, and building
expertise-finding systems.
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The STIET Program is funded by the National Science Foundation and the
Research Seminar Series is funded by a Rackham Interdisciplinary
Workshop grant and an Office of the Vice President for Research
Distinguished Faculty Seminar grant. If you would like to receive
emails about STIET activities or be removed from the seminar list,
email mailto:woollams@... For more information about the STIET
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Karen Woollams

STIET Program Coordinator

Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions

The University of Michigan

2204 SI North, 1075 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112

(734) 615-7210 fax (734) 647-8045


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Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, MI 48104
+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

hello bi bim bop crowd,

Lunch is on for tomorrow. No particular plans -
Rob Malan is out of town so he won't be there.

I'll be at Eastern Accents at 11:45 or so to grab
a table.

As always I plan to write up a little lunch summary
after we're done, so if you don't make it, you'll
at least get a little bit of what happened. I
have put a link to one of those here:



which really just links to the Yahoo Groups
archive. simplest thing that works for now.

thanks

Ed
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+1 734 276 5910

edward.vielmetti@...

Reminder from the a2b3 weekly meeting Thursday January 12, 2006 11:45 am - 1:00 pm This event repeats every week. The next reminder for this event will be sent in 21 hours, 2 minutes. Event Location: Eastern Accents Notes: weekly meeting. location may change with some advance notice, but Eastern Accents is the default. ADVERTISEMENT

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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, David C. Bloom wrote:

Boppers__ Ed asked me to send out a last minute Bopgram to the a2b3 list, reminding the faithful that he *will* be hosting a Bi Bim Bop lunch TODAY (Thu 1/5) at Eastern Accents (4th Ave, just N of Liberty in Ann Arbor). So if you can come on short notice, that would be great. __David

I would have liked to attend, but I had a recall clarity hearing scheduled for 12:45 pm today.

Footnote: The officer whose recall was sought was Milan city council member Timothy Gilbelyou, over an issue involving severance pay for the former police chief and city administrator, and we unanimously decided that the proposed reasons for recall were sufficiently clear. Besides the Election Commission itself and the county elections director, the only person attending was Chong Pyen of the Ann Arbor News.

A log of all Washtenaw County recall activity since 1/1/2005 (though not yet updated to show today's action) is at

Larry

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Lawrence Kestenbaum, polygon@...
Washtenaw County Clerk & Register of Deeds,
The Political Graveyard,
Polygon, the Dancing Bear,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor, MI 48106

I have been dying for what you call "Google Stacks" since the oooold
catalog was around. The obvious questions I can see are:

* What precision do you use? Section, row, case, shelf? Case is
probably the most practical.

* How do you present the data? A path from the entrance of the
library? A dot on a map? If it's just a dot, then a lot more
directional context will be necessary in the i

Technologically -- Flash? A PNG generated from a coordinate point or
XML? I'd go with the latter, but I'm just talking -- I've never worked
with the code.

* How can this be easily updated? It seems that collection management
enjoys moving things one or two shelves over every couple of months.
And when even one shelf is moved, the coordinate points for a hundred
or more books will need to be accurately transferred.

(um, is there a library mailing list this should be on?)

Matt

On 1/5/06, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:

Sorry that more people did not get advanced notice - I did in fact
send something out via upcoming.org yesterday, but some snafu made it
not happen. I will try very hard to fix that for next week.

Attendees: Jose Nazario (jose@...), Dave Barnett
(dbarnett@...), John Blyberg (blybergj@...), Edward
Vielmetti (edward.vielmetti@...).

We talked mostly about library stuff. John is a network administrator
and coder and blogger at the AADL, and we talked about a bunch of
ideas on how the library catalog could be improved to be more
relevant. In no particular order some things that came up:

"Google Stacks" - the catalog tells you precisely where in the
building the books are, not just "second floor" but with a pinpoint
location on a map.

Microformats in the catalog - standards for doing markup within
catalog records and RSS feeds so that any application could do a
search or query and get back easy to parse results to reuse. This
would make applications like my library bookshelves at

easier to write and less reliant on screen-scraping to get their work
done.

Busy libraries - the Mallett's Creek branch has about 50% of its
materials checked out at any time, and if everyone returned all their
books and DVDs all at once the library would not have a place to store
them all.

thanks all

Ed





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Sorry that more people did not get advanced notice - I did in fact
send something out via upcoming.org yesterday, but some snafu made it
not happen. I will try very hard to fix that for next week.

Attendees: Jose Nazario (jose@...), Dave Barnett
(dbarnett@...), John Blyberg (blybergj@...), Edward
Vielmetti (edward.vielmetti@...).

We talked mostly about library stuff. John is a network administrator
and coder and blogger at the AADL, and we talked about a bunch of
ideas on how the library catalog could be improved to be more
relevant. In no particular order some things that came up:

"Google Stacks" - the catalog tells you precisely where in the
building the books are, not just "second floor" but with a pinpoint
location on a map.

Microformats in the catalog - standards for doing markup within
catalog records and RSS feeds so that any application could do a
search or query and get back easy to parse results to reuse. This
would make applications like my library bookshelves at

easier to write and less reliant on screen-scraping to get their work
done.

Busy libraries - the Mallett's Creek branch has about 50% of its
materials checked out at any time, and if everyone returned all their
books and DVDs all at once the library would not have a place to store
them all.

thanks all

Ed

Boppers__ Ed asked me to send out a last minute Bopgram to the a2b3 list,
reminding the faithful that he *will* be hosting a Bi Bim Bop lunch TODAY
(Thu 1/5) at Eastern Accents (4th Ave, just N of Liberty in Ann Arbor). So
if
you can come on short notice, that would be great. __David



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Yahoo! DSL ??? Something to write home about.
Just $16.99/mo. or less.
dsl.yahoo.com

I'll be there too. Happy holidays to those who can't make it ...

Joe

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