Project Lab 1

Assignment 1: Make you own web page.
• Go to CAM computer Help Pages and read Your own home page.
• If you haven't used html before, it is very easy. To start go to the course web page Networks and Algorithms in the browser clic on "View" and then on "Page Source" to see the html code for that page.
• Basic html commands
Assignment 2: Go here and start reading about the different networks I have links to. Browse the web take notes on whatever you find interesting so that we can talk about it. Some questions/ideas: Participate on the small-world experiment. What is the Erdos Number? About United States House of Representatives data: what are the nodes, edges in this network?
Papers to read

• An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks. Peter Sheridan Dodds, Roby Muhamad, Duncan J. Watts. Science Vol. 301. no. 5634, pp. 827 - 829
• Collective dynamics of "small-world" networks. Duncan J. Watts and Steven H. Strogatz. Nature 393:440--442.
More info: Jon Kleinberg's course on The Structure of Information Networks.