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PHD >FIRST=DUNCAN JAMESTITLE=THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF SMALL-WORLD SYSTEMS DATE=1997 ID={{PROQUEST, 304342043, }}|birth_place = Guelph, Ontario|death_date =|death_place =|citizenship = |nationality = Australian - Canadian |ethnicity = |field = Sociology, network science Columbia UniversityMicrosoft ResearchSanta Fe InstituteYahoo! ResearchNuffield College, OxfordEVERYTHING IS OBVIOUS DATE=2018-04-23 ACCESS-DATE=2018-07-08 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20130824203128/HTTP://EVERYTHINGISOBVIOUS.COM/THE-AUTHOR/, dead, |alma_mater = University of New South WalesCornell University (PhD)Steven Strogatz{{MathGenealogy>id=39534}}|doctoral_students = | thesis_title = The structure and dynamics of small-world systems| thesis_year = 1997| thesis_url =search.proquest.com/docview/304342043 |known_for = Watts and Strogatz model(Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age)|influences = |influenced = Fellows of the Network Science Society>Fellow of the Network Science Society (NetSci), 2018.|prizes = |religion = |footnotes = www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/duncan-j-watts-phd}}}}Duncan James Watts (born February 20, 1971) is a computational social scientist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.WEB,www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/duncan-watts-phd, Duncan Watts, Ph.D. {{!, Annenberg School for Communication|website=www.asc.upenn.edu|access-date=2019-11-30}} He was formerly a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City, and is known for his work on small-world networks.JOURNAL, Watts, D. J., Networks, Dynamics, and the Small‐World Phenomenon, 10.1086/210318, American Journal of Sociology, 105, 2, 493–527, 1999, 10.1.1.78.4413, 16479399, JOURNAL, Watts, D. J., Dodds, P. S., Newman, M. E., 10.1126/science.1070120, Identity and Search in Social Networks, Science, 296, 5571, 1302–1305, 2002, 12016312, cond-mat/0205383, 2002Sci...296.1302W, 466762, JOURNAL, Watts, D. J., A simple model of global cascades on random networks, 10.1073/pnas.082090499, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 9, 5766–5771, 2002, 16578874, 122850, 2002PNAS...99.5766W, free, JOURNAL, Dodds, P. S., Muhamad, R., Watts, D. J., 10.1126/science.1081058, An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks, Science, 301, 5634, 827–829, 2003, 12907800, 2003Sci...301..827D, 10.1.1.222.4643, 11504171,www.distcomp.ethz.ch/lectures/fs10/seminar/paper/michael-6.pdf, JOURNAL, Watts, D. J., 10.1146/annurev.soc.30.020404.104342, The “New” Science of Networks, Annual Review of Sociology, 30, 243–270, 2004,zenodo.org/record/894392, JOURNAL, Dodds, P., Watts, D., 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.218701, Universal Behavior in a Generalized Model of Contagion, Physical Review Letters, 92, 21, 218701, 2004, 15245323, cond-mat/0403699, 2004PhRvL..92u8701D, 2450776, JOURNAL, Watts, D. J., Multiscale, resurgent epidemics in a hierarchical metapopulation model, 10.1073/pnas.0501226102, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 32, 11157–11162, 2005, 16055564, 1183543, 2005PNAS..10211157W, free, {{Scopus|id=7201539502}}NEWS, Clive Thompson, Is the Tipping Point Toast?,www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.htmlFast Company (magazine)>Fast Company, February 2008, 2008-02-25,

Education

Watts received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of New South Wales and a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University,BOOK, Watts, Duncan, Loudis, Jessica, Blagojevic, Rosko, Peetz, John Arthur, Rodman, Allison, Should I go to grad school?: 41 answers to an impossible question, Duncan Watts, 1999, American Mathematical Society, 978-1-62040-598-7, 46–51, where his advisor was Steven Strogatz.

Career

Watts joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in July 2019 as a PIK Professor. He has joint appointments in Engineering, Communications and Business.Watts was past external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and a former professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he headed the Collective Dynamics Group.CDG Collective Dynamics Group {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050402022840cdg.columbia.edu/ |date=2005-04-02 }} He is also author of two books. His first, (Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age)BOOK Until April 2012, he was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directed the Human Social Dynamics group.WEB, AllThingsDigital, Aussie social-network researcher exits Yahoo, Herald Sun, 2012-04-29,www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/australian-social-network-researcher-duncan-watts-leaves-yahoo/news-story/a465dd3687ef2e5d04b46980f8d1b6ae, 2018-07-08, 11 January 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200111165155/https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/australian-social-network-researcher-duncan-watts-leaves-yahoo/news-story/a465dd3687ef2e5d04b46980f8d1b6ae, dead, Watts joined Microsoft Research in New York City by its opening on May 3, 2012.Floridia, Richard. “Why Microsoft Chose New York City” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224233616www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/05/why-microsoft-chose-new-york-city/1933/ |date=24 February 2014 }}, The Atlantic: Cities, 2 May 2012. Retrieved on 8 May 2012.Knies, Rob. “Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Debuts N.Y.C. Lab”, Microsoft Research, 7 May 2012. Retrieved on 8 May 2012.Watts describes his research as exploring the “role that network structure plays in determining or constraining system behavior, focusing on a few broad problem areas in social science such as information contagion, financial risk management, and organizational design.“Home page of Duncan Watts at Yahoo Research {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128141431research.yahoo.com/Duncan_Watts |date=2009-11-28 }} More recently he has attracted attention for his modern-day replication of Stanley Milgram’s small world experiment using email messages and for his studies of popularity and fads in on-line and other communities.In Watts’s early career, from 2002 to 2007, he was a frequent collaborator of Peter Sheridan Dodds, now at the University of Vermont’s Vermont Complex Systems Center.

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External links

• Duncan Watts page at Microsoft

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