Hiya WT and thanks for the news!
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Originally posted by walktalker
What does the Internet look like
Few questions are simultaneously so baffling and so significant as: “what is the structure of the Internet?” Baffling, because the thing has grown without any planning or central organisation. Significant, because knowing how the routing computers that are the net's physical embodiment are interconnected is vital if it is to be used properly. At the latest count, there were 228,265 of these routers around the world. They direct the packets of data that make up Internet traffic. Any effort to map the Internet is necessarily incomplete and out of date the moment it appears. Instead, Albert-Laslo Barabasi and his colleagues at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, treat the net as though it were a natural phenomenon. What scientists generally do with a natural phenomenon that they do not understand is to build a model of it. Dr Barabasi's latest paper on the matter, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a general framework for improving the accuracy of Internet models.
http://www.economist.com/science/dis...ory_id=1365118
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A good story and a fresh, interesting perspective to understanding Internet dynamics!
- tg
06-10-02, 03:04 AM
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