Archive for July 29th, 2010

  • War against the center: a brief history of networks

    Thursday, July 29th, 2010

    This week’s lecture was about how networks we use nowadays were invented through the history of World War II.
    During  the war, finding central points could mean wiping out whole army itself. Thus, decentralization was the key for information to keep flowing in war times. When war was over, American key thinkers started to think about [...]