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Computational Social Science

David Lazer,* Alex Pentland, Lada Adamic, Sinan Aral, Albert-László Barabási, Devon
Brewer, Nicholas Christakis, Noshir Contractor, James Fowler, Myron Gutmann, Tony
Jebara, Gary King, Michael Macy, Deb Roy, Marshall Van Alstyne

*E-mail: david_lazer@harvard.edu

Published 6 February 2009, Science 323, 721 (2009)
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167742

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David Lazer
Director, Program on Networked Governance
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
david_lazer@harvard.edu
http://www.davidlazer.com

Alex Pentland
Professor
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
pentland@media.mit.edu
http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/

Lada Adamic
Assistant Professor
School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems
University of Michigan
1085 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
ladamic@umich.edu
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ladamic/

Sinan Aral
Assistant Professor
NYU Stern School of Business
44 West 4 Street Room 8-81
New York, NY, 10012
Research Affiliate
MIT Sloan School of Management.
saral@nyu.edu
Personal Webpage: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~saral
SSRN Page: http://ssrn.com/author=110270

Albert-László Barabási
Professor

Center for Complex Network Research
Departments of Physics, Biology and Computer Science
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Center for Cancer Systems Biology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115
alb@neu.edu
http://www.barabasi.com/

Devon D. Brewer
Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
P.O. Box 15110
Seattle, WA 98115
interscientific@yahoo.com
http://www.interscientific.net

Nicholas A. Christakis
Professor
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Department of Sociology, Harvard University
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-5899
christak@hcp.med.harvard.edu
http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/

Noshir Contractor
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Science, McCormick School of Engineering
Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication
Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Director, Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC)
Research Laboratory Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2145 Sheridan Road, TECH D241
Evanston, Illinois 60208-3119
nosh@northwestern.edu
http://nosh.northwestern.edu

James H. Fowler
Associate Professor
Political Science Department
University of California, San Diego
Social Science Building 383
9500 Gilman Drive #0521
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521

jhfowler@ucsd.edu
http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu

Myron P. Gutmann
Professor of History and Information
Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
University of Michigan
PO Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
gutmann@umich.edu
http://www.icpsr.org/ICPSR/staff/gutmann.html


Tony Jebara
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University
1214 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code 0401
New York, NY 10027
jebara@cs.columbia.edu 
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~jebara/

Gary King
Professor
Director, Institute of Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
king@harvard.edu
http://gking.harvard.edu/

Michael Macy
Professor
Social Dynamics Laboratory
372 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
14853-7601 Cornell University
Mwm14@cornell.edu
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mwm14/

Deb Roy
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
dkroy@media.mit.edu
http://web.media.mit.edu/~dkroy/

Marshall Van Alstyne
Associate Professor
Boston University School of Management
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Research Associate
MIT Center for E-Business
mva@bu.edu
http://smgnet.bu.edu/mgmt_new/profiles/VanAlstyneMarshall.html

Acknowledgments
This paper is an outgrowth of a December 7, 2007 conference by the same title. Thanks go to
the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Program on Networked Governance at
Harvard University (the latter supported by National Science Foundation grant # 0131923), and
the MIT Legatum Center for sponsorship of that conference. Video of this conference is
available at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/computational_social_science.html.

S. Aral acknowledges generous funding support from the Marketing Sciences Institute and the
Institute for Innovation and Information Productivity. A.-L.B. is supported by James S.
McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Initiative in Studying Complex Systems, the National
Science Foundation within the DDDAS (CNS-0540348), ITR (DMR-0426737) and IIS-0513650
programs, the US Office of Naval Research Award N00014-07-C, The Office of Naval Research
(ONR), Grant: N00014-07-C-0227 and by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

The viewpoints expressed in this article are the authors’ alone.

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