BOSTON — The offices of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University sit 10 floors above Boston’s Back Bay. Wraparound windows offer a floating panorama of the city, from Boston Common to ...

Social networking sites are the craze for our generation. Bands can promote themselves with MySpace. Twitter can break national news (need I remind you of Osama bin Laden’s death?). Facebook arguably ...

Long before Facebook introduced its hot new Social Graph app, researchers in the ADVANCE project at NJIT were pioneering the use of social network mapping to help women scientists and engineers ...

Mapping matters. Bridging between the online world and the physical world has never been so important and there’s not only the opportunity to create your own maps but also use maps in a social ...

Interacting with others can be challenging—just ask anyone who has ever tried to figure out group dynamics at a family gathering or navigate office politics. Recently, researchers studying the social ...

Many schools have used federal funding to hire or assign staff or volunteers to build one-on-one relationships with students. But as leaders grapple with staff shortages and overwhelmed teachers, it ...

There are social networks, and then there are social networks. The term is usually used these days to refer to apps and sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and other places where online ...

As business professionals, we’ve all been there: finding ourselves at a crossroads in our careers, seeking new opportunities, or striving to advance within our chosen fields. One powerful tool that is ...

To slow the virus, Alessandro Vespignani and other analysts are racing to model the behavior of its human host. By Benedict Carey BOSTON — The offices of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern ...

There are social networks, and then there are social networks. The term is usually used these days to refer to apps and sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and other places where online ...