Duncan J. Watts
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Watts presenting at iCitizen 2008
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| Born | Duncan James Watts February 20, 1971 [1] Guelph, Ontario[1] |
| Residence | New York City |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Fields | Sociology, network science |
| Institutions | Columbia University Microsoft Research Santa Fe Institute Yahoo! Research Nuffield College, Oxford[2] |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales Cornell University (PhD) |
| Thesis | The structure and dynamics of small-world systems (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Steven Strogatz[3] |
| Doctoral students | Gueorgi Kossinets Roby Muhamad Matthew Salganik [3] |
| Known for | Watts and Strogatz model Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age[4] |
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Duncan James Watts (born 1971) is a sociologist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, New York City known for his work on small-world networks.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Education
Watts received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of New South Wales and a Ph.D.[1] from Cornell University.
Career
Watts was past external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and a former professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he headed the Collective Dynamics Group.[18] He is author of the book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age[4] and Everything is Obvious *Once You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us.[19] The six degrees research is based on his 1998 paper with Steven Strogatz in which the two presented a mathematical theory of the small world phenomenon.[20]
Until April 2012, he was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directed the Human Social Dynamics group.[21] Watts joined Microsoft Research in New York City by its opening on May 3, 2012.[22][23]
Watts describes his research as exploring the "role that network structure plays in determining or constraining system behavior, focusing on a few broad problem areas in social science such as information contagion, financial risk management, and organizational design."[24] More recently he has attracted attention for his modern-day replication of Stanley Milgram's small world experiment using email messages and for his studies of popularity and fads in on-line and other communities.
References
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- ↑ Duncan J. Watts's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ↑ Duncan J. Watts's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
- ↑ Duncan J. Watts from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
- ↑ Duncan J. Watts's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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- ↑ Herald Sun. Australian social-network researcher Duncan Watts leaves Yahoo. [1]
- ↑ Floridia, Richard. "Why Microsoft Chose New York City", The Atlantic: Cities, 2 May 2012. Retrieved on 8 May 2012.
- ↑ Knies, Rob. "Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Debuts N.Y.C. Lab", Microsoft Research, 7 May 2012. Retrieved on 8 May 2012.
- ↑ Home page of Duncan Watts at Yahoo Research
