The Power of Networks (eBook)

Six Principles That Connect Our Lives

Christopher G. Brinton, Mung Chiang (Autoren)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8407-0 (ISBN)

Infos

An accessible illustrated introducton to the networks we use every day, from Facebook and Google to WiFi and the InternetWhat makes WiFi faster at home than at a coffee shop? How does Google order search results? Why do Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube use fundamentally different rating and recommendation methods-and why does it matter? Is it really true that everyone on Facebook is connected in six steps or less? And how do cat videos-or anything else-go viral? The Power of Networks answers questions like these for the first time in a way that all of us can understand and use, whether at home, the office, or school. Using simple language, analogies, stories, hundreds of illustrations, and no more math than simple addition and multiplication, Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang provide a smart but accessible introduction to the handful of big ideas that drive the technical and social networks we use every day-from cellular phone networks and cloud computing to the Internet and social media platforms.The Power of Networks unifies these ideas through six fundamental principles of networking, which explain the difficulties in sharing network resources efficiently, how crowds can be wise or not so wise depending on the nature of their connections, how there are many building-blocks of layers in a network, and more. Understanding these simple ideas unlocks the workings of everything from the connections we make on Facebook to the technology that runs such platforms. Along the way, the authors also talk with and share the special insights of renowned experts such as Google's Eric Schmidt, former Verizon Wireless CEO Dennis Strigl, and "e;fathers of the Internet"e; Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.Networks are everywhere. The Power of Networks shows how they work-and what understanding them can do for you.

Autor

Christopher G. Brinton is the Head of Advanced Research at Zoomi Inc., where he works on big-data analytics, social learning networks, and personalized learning. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University. Mung Chiang is the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton, where he also serves as chairman of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council and director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education. In 2013, he received the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation. Since 2012, Brinton and Chiang have introduced networks to hundreds of thousands of people around the world through massive open online courses.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 25 halftones. 198 line illus. 12 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Access Network • Address space • Adwords • Analogy • Auction • Autonomous system (Internet) • Backhaul (telecommunications) • Calculation • Capacity Management • Centrality • circuit switching • Click-through rate • clustering coefficient • Communication • communications protocol • Computation • computing • Cost efficiency • Crowds • Data Link Layer • data set • digital equipment corporation • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol • Dynamic Programming • E-Commerce • Encapsulation (networking) • Ethernet • Exchange of information • FAST TCP • Illustration • Information Cascade • Information Sharing • interconnectivity • Interface Message Processor • Internet Backbone • Internet forum • ip address • IPv6 • Level of detail • link layer • Link-state routing protocol • Login • Market penetration • Messages (application) • multi-factor authentication • Network Address Translation • Network congestion • network dynamics • network effect • Network element • Networking • network layer • Network Performance • network topology • Online Advertising • Online machine learning • Packet Switching • Physical Layer • Popular science • Power Control • Pricing • Protocol Stack • Public-Key Cryptography • Public Key Infrastructure • Ranking (information retrieval) • raw data • Real-Time Communication • Retransmission (data networks) • Rounding • Router (computing) • routing protocol • Save the Internet • Sensor • Server (computing) • Service Provider • Session layer • social search • Streaming Media • Technology • Telecommunication • Telecommunications industry • The Wisdom of Crowds • Throughput • Throughput rate • Time-Sharing • Transmission Control Protocol • Transmit (FTP client) • Transport Layer • Udacity • UMTS (telecommunication) • User Datagram Protocol • User Experience • Value-Added Service • Website • Wi-Fi • WiMax • Wireless Access Point • Wireless Network • Workstation • World Wide Web
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8407-1 / 1400884071
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8407-0 / 9781400884070