News tagged with social system

Researchers develop method that shows diverse complex networks have similar skeletons

Northwestern University researchers are the first to discover that very different complex networks -- ranging from global air traffic to neural networks -- share very similar backbones. By stripping each network down to its ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Vertebrates share ancient neural circuitry for complex social behaviors: study

Humans, fish and frogs share neural circuits responsible for a diversity of social behavior, from flashy mating displays to aggression and monogamy, that have existed for more than 450 million years, biologists at The University ...

Biology / Other

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Female sex offenders protected by the criminal justice system

Female sex offenders receive lighter sentences for the same crimes than males says a study recently published in Feminist Criminology, a SAGE journal and the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the Americ ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

American Express plants money trees in "Farmville"

American Express on Tuesday began letting lovers of Zynga games plant money trees on "Farmville" acreage.

Technology / Business

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Social Security's IT system could benefit by joining the cloud, scientist says

The Social Security Administration (SSA) should restructure its already massive information technology (IT) systems so they can be readily scaled up, much like the systems used by Google and Amazon, William L. Scherlis, professor ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protest targets US cyber intelligence legislation

Civil liberties groups on Monday launched protests targeting proposed US cyber intelligence law that they fear would let police freely dip into people's private online information.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Game of go: A complex network

Could computers ever beat the best go players? Although unthinkable at this stage, this could soon become possible, thanks to CNRS theorists. For the first time, two scientists from the Theoretical Physics ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 31

Contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals

Researchers at Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Zaragoza theoretically predict, in a scientific study, that contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

US regulators call for tighter online privacy rules

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called for Internet users to be given an easy-to-use "Do Not Track" feature in a report released on Monday backing tighter online privacy laws.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Weak growth seen in PC shipments this year: Gartner

Personal computer shipments are expected to remain weak this year amid growing competition from tablets and even high-powered smartphones, research company Gartner said Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google rolls out new privacy policy amid howls

Google rolled out a new privacy policy Thursday allowing the firm to track users across various services to develop targeted advertising, despite sharp criticism from US and European consumer advocacy groups.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 56

Social responsibility of businesses questioned

When the Icelandic banking system was privatised in 2003, it inaugurated a period of furious expansion of both loans and risky investments. The bubble burst in 2008. At that time, the nominal assets of the three largest banks ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Never forget keys or phone ever again: Intelligent system keeps track of your items

RFID tags are becoming ubiquitous, shops, warehouses, libraries and others use them for stock and inventory control and to reduce the risk of theft. Now, a team in Dubai has developed the concept of an IPURSE, a mobile platform ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social workers should reclaim role in juvenile corrections system, researcher says

In the pioneering days of the juvenile corrections system, social workers often served as the primary probation officers who rehabilitated young offenders. As the field of corrections became dominated by law enforcement officers, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study analyzes emotions in software engineering

Emotions are an important factor that must be taken into account when designing any type of software. This is the conclusion reached through a research project coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III de ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0