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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Dear Elisa Bienenstock -- Re. the DARPA Network Challenge http://networksingularity.com/2009/12/04/le-ballon-rouge.aspx "This is in fact entirely a computer science experiment." Hunh? Care to elaborate? Recall this remark from a UCLA alumnus. "UCLA has one computer science department, but 25 full departments of biology (not counting medical school stuff). Why? Biologists are smarter then we are. When things are bogging down, the best thing to do is to go create a new department. To do creative work in computing, you must get past what you think is normal. Write down the 20 things you think are true of computing and try to demolish them." - Alan Kay Also, BTW, remember economics is a social science. However, don't expect a Nobel Prize for sociology anytime soon... -j John Maloney The Future of Networks Mail: http://1id.com/=jheuristic Blog: http://networksingularity.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jheuristic Tel: 415.902.9676 Fax: 415.276.6074 Skype: jheuristic -----Original Message----- From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Elisa Bienenstock, Elisa Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:45 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [SOCNET] Red Balloons on December 5, 2009 ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** It is only 40k.... I am happy so many of you are commenting. Although I did not want to put it in my initial post all of the comments posted so far occurred to me. I am not sure if any of the participants are social scientists. I find it a bit disconcerting that this is a "social" experiment and that none of the designers have any social science creds. This is in fact entirely a computer science experiment. What I find interesting, obviously, is who is out of the loop. Many of the web teams have posted information about themselves on the web. I think there is some interesting analysis that can be done. -----Original Message----- From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martina Morris Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 3:35 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [SOCNET] Red Balloons on December 5, 2009 _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.