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Know Thine Enemy

William Robertson got his first taste of how vulnerable the world’s cyberinfrastructure is during the 1990s, when he hacked into computer networks. He did it for the adrenaline rush, says the assistant professor, and out of sheer curiosity. “I was interested in system penetration and doing remote reconnaissance just to see what I could find,” [...]

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3Qs: What to Know About the New Bird Flu Virus

Earlier this month, the U.S. government declared that the emerging H7N9 bird flu “poses a significant potential for a public health emergency.” The virus, a relative of other bird flus we’ve seen previously like H1N1 and H5N1, originated in China and results in a severe respiratory infection and, in some cases, death. While the virus [...]

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Albert-László Barabási Maps the Disease Network

One of the world’s foremost network scientists, Barabási is leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers on a quest to construct the human “diseasome”—the sum of all human diseases and the ways they relate to one another. This map of human diseases would revolutionize medicine on all levels, says Barabási, enabling researchers to understand the molecular [...]

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Alessandro Vespignani Maps Out Pandemics

Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Science, and Health Sciences is a pioneer in the emerging field of digital epidemiology, which promises to revolutionize the way we approach public health issues involving the spread of infectious diseases. He notes that it took nearly a decade for the Black Plague to spread [...]

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Know Thine Enemy

3Qs: What to Know About the New Bird Flu Virus

Albert-László Barabási Maps the Disease Network

Alessandro Vespignani Maps Out Pandemics