Monthly Archives: July 2012

Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks

A New Wave of Abstraction Understanding always requires a radical simplification of what really is to what can be held-in-mind and used. — artist Ward Shelley (2010) Morning, June, Evanston, near Chicago. It’s a warm walk from my hotel to … Continue reading

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Credit Where Credit is Due, Part II

When computer scientists Jon Kleinberg and Sigal Oren came up with a theoretical model showing that assigning credit unfairly resulted in the most productive creative community, they were thinking about individual scientists and credit in the form of prizes, high-status … Continue reading

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