Duncan J. Watts

Duncan Watts
Watts presenting at iCitizen 2008
Born (1971-02-20) February 20, 1971 (age 53)[3]
NationalityAustralian - Canadian [3]
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales
Cornell University (PhD)
Known forWatts and Strogatz model
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age[4]
AwardsFellow of the Network Science Society (NetSci), 2018.
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, network science
InstitutionsColumbia University
Microsoft Research
Santa Fe Institute
Yahoo! Research
Nuffield College, Oxford[1]
ThesisThe structure and dynamics of small-world systems (1997)
Doctoral advisorSteven Strogatz[2]
Websitewww.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/duncan-j-watts-phd

Duncan James Watts (born February 20, 1971) is a computational social scientist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.[5] He was formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, and is known for his work on small-world networks.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

  1. ^ "Everything is Obvious". Everything is Obvious. 23 April 2018. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  2. ^ Duncan J. Watts at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b c Watts, Duncan James (1997). The structure and dynamics of small-world systems (PhD thesis). Cornell University. ProQuest 304342043.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Watts2003 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Duncan Watts, Ph.D. | Annenberg School for Communication". www.asc.upenn.edu. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  6. ^ Watts, D. J. (1999). "Networks, Dynamics, and the Small‐World Phenomenon". American Journal of Sociology. 105 (2): 493–527. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.78.4413. doi:10.1086/210318. S2CID 16479399.
  7. ^ Watts, D. J.; Dodds, P. S.; Newman, M. E. (2002). "Identity and Search in Social Networks". Science. 296 (5571): 1302–1305. arXiv:cond-mat/0205383. Bibcode:2002Sci...296.1302W. doi:10.1126/science.1070120. PMID 12016312. S2CID 466762.
  8. ^ Watts, D. J. (2002). "A simple model of global cascades on random networks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99 (9): 5766–5771. Bibcode:2002PNAS...99.5766W. doi:10.1073/pnas.082090499. PMC 122850. PMID 16578874.
  9. ^ Dodds, P. S.; Muhamad, R.; Watts, D. J. (2003). "An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks" (PDF). Science. 301 (5634): 827–829. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..827D. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.222.4643. doi:10.1126/science.1081058. PMID 12907800. S2CID 11504171.
  10. ^ Watts, D. J. (2004). "The "New" Science of Networks". Annual Review of Sociology. 30: 243–270. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.30.020404.104342.
  11. ^ Dodds, P.; Watts, D. (2004). "Universal Behavior in a Generalized Model of Contagion". Physical Review Letters. 92 (21): 218701. arXiv:cond-mat/0403699. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..92u8701D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.218701. PMID 15245323. S2CID 2450776.
  12. ^ Watts, D. J. (2005). "Multiscale, resurgent epidemics in a hierarchical metapopulation model". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (32): 11157–11162. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10211157W. doi:10.1073/pnas.0501226102. PMC 1183543. PMID 16055564.
  13. ^ Duncan J. Watts's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  14. ^ Clive Thompson (February 2008). "Is the Tipping Point Toast?". Fast Company. Retrieved 25 February 2008.

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