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Course Goals

The course addresses a number of different questions including:

Logistics

The course meets on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10:05-11:20 in Allen 326.

Professor

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Jeff Forbes
Email: forbes at cs.duke.edu
Office: D235 LSRC
Office Phone: (919) 660-6550
Office hours: Mondays 1:00-2:30, any time my door is open (which is most of the time), or by appointment

Undergaduate Teaching Assistant

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Dave Stecher
Email: dms27 at cs.duke.edu
Helper hours: As needed and by appointment

Texts and Software

D. Easley, J. Kleinberg. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World. To be published by Cambridge University Press, 2010. (required)

This pre-publication book can be freely read or printed. The Duke textbook store will print copies for a fee. We will use this book extensively in this course.

Software for the course will be provided via this website.

Topics covered

See the calendar for tentative list of topics.

Grading

This class involves reading, assignments, and tests. The different types of work each contribute to your final grade by approximately the following percentages:
What you do Percentage of Final Grade
Assignments & Project 30%
Postings 15%
Classwork/Community 15%
Midterm 15%
Final Exam  25%

Course Policies

Individual extensions will be granted only for medical reasons (see the Short-term Illness Notification policy) or other circumstances beyond your control that must be presented with an official Dean's excuse. We do not grant extensions after an assignment is due, you must request an extension before an assignment is due.

If you have personal reasons to ask for an extension, and you do so at least a week in advance, it's possible to get one, so please ask.

Collaboration

Any work in this course that does not include an explicit policy about working with others is assumed to be work you do on your own. Occasionally you will be given work to do with explicit permission to collaborate.


Material on these pages is often taken from the courses of Jon Kleinberg, Michael Kearns, Lada Adamic, Nicole Immorlica, Jim Moody, and the Duke CS Ed group.