February 22, Tuesday
12:00 – 13:00
Digital replicas of Milgram's experiment
Computer Science seminar
Lecturer : Alessandro Panconesi
Affiliation : Sapienza, University of Rome
Location : 202/37
Host : Prof. Michael Elkin
Milgram's landmark six-degrees-of-separation experiment
led to the fascinating small world hypothesis: take any two people in a social network, and they will be connected by a short chain of acquaintances. The extent to which the hypothesis is true is still actively debated. In this talk we give new experimental and theoretical results concerning Milgram's experiment. In particular, we discuss the possibility and the importance of performing purely digital replicas of the experiment, without human subjecs taking part in it.
Joint work with Silvio Lattanzi and D.Sivakumar