Duncan Watts

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Duncan J. Watts (born February 20, 1971 in Guelph ) is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City and previously headed the Human Social Dynamics group at Yahoo Research. Before that, from 2000 to 2007 he was Professor of Sociology at Columbia University , where he was head of the Collective Dynamics Group . He is also an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and author of the book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age .

Duncan J. Watts

He studied at the University of New South Wales in Australia before earning a PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University . In 1998, together with Steven Strogatz , as part of the research into complex systems, he presented a mathematical formalization of the small world phenomenon , which in the following ten years was one of the most cited publications in physics with 2,700 citations. His work then focused on repeating Stanley Milgram's experiments to study the small world phenomenon through email messages.

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  • Everything is Obvious. How common sense fails , 2011, Atlantic Books London, ISBN 978-1-84887-2141
  • Small Worlds. The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness (Princeton Studies in Complexity) , 2004, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-69111-704-7
  • Six Degrees. The Science of a Connected Age , 2003, ISBN 0-39304-142-5
  • (with Steven Strogatz): Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks. , 1998, Nature # 393, pp. 440–42 PDF version (English)

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  1. ^ Profile of Duncan Watts at Microsoft Research
  2. ↑ ScienceWatch December 2008 (accessed on: November 1, 2009)
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SURNAME Watts, Duncan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watts, Duncan J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Guelph