ALBERT-LáSZLó BARABáSI

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'Albert-László Barabási' (born March 30, 1967) is a Romanian-born American scientist. He is the former Emil T. Hofmann professor at the University of Notre Dame and current Distinguished Professor and Director of Northeastern University's Center for Network Science, and is noted for research into ''scale-free networks''.

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Biography

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Biography

Born to a Székely (Hungarian) family in Cârţa, Harghita County (Transylvania), he studied engineering in Romania, and took a master's degree in Hungary, before enrolling in the Physics program at Boston University, where he earned a PhD in 1994, working under H. Eugene Stanley.
Barabási has been a major contributor to the development of real-world network theory, together with several other scientists from physics, mathematics, and computer science. His biggest role has been the introduction of the ''scale-free network'' concept, as well as a popularizer of network theory. Among the topics in network theory that Barabási has studied are growth and preferential attachment, the mechanisms probably responsible in part for the structure of the World Wide Web or the cell. According to the review of one of Barabási's books, preferential attachment can be described as follows:

"Barabási has found that the websites that form the network (of the WWW) have certain mathematical properties. The conditions for these properties to occur are threefold. The first is that the network has to be expanding, growing. This precondition of growth is very important as the idea of emergence comes with it. It is constantly evolving and adapting. That condition exists markedly with the world wide web. The second is the condition of 'preferential attachment', that is, nodes (websites) will wish to link themselves to hubs (websites) with the most connections. The third condition is what is termed competitive fitness which in network terms means its rate of attraction." www.sociopranos.com

Professor Barabási has left Notre Dame to become the Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Network Science at Northeastern University (Fall 2007).

Works

★ Barabási, Albert-László ''Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else'', 2002, ISBN 0-452-28439-2

★ Barabási, Albert-László and Réka Albert. "Emergence of scaling in random networks", ''Science'', 286:509-512, October 15, 1999.

★ Barabási, Albert-László and Zoltán Oltvai, "Network Biology", ''Nature Reviews Genetics'' 5, 101-113 (2004).

External links

★ Home page

★ Research Publications

★ Center for Complex Network Studies

★ Linked Homepage

★ A review of Linked, by Pravin Shankar