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"Kevin Tang receives NSF funding to study large-scale networks using 'computational-analytic' methods"

A truly interdisciplinary team, including Professor Eric Friedman from ORIE, Professor Steven Strogatz of applied mathematics and Professor Kevin Tang from the School of Electrical and Computer engineering, receives a 1.5 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study models of complex networks such as the Internet. The main aim is to extract macroscopic understanding from accurate detailed microscopic models. Traditional pure analytical approach faces great difficulty here and the team hopes to use computers to complete pure human analysis to handle such complex models.

The grant is one of the first awarded through the NSF's new Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program, an initiative to "create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking".

See related article: "Modeling the Internet from the top down, but keeping sight of small details"
- Feb. 25, 2009, Cornell Chronicle Online