Search and rescue

Tweeting disasters

12 October 2011

Social networks like Twitter cannot help prevent disasters, but can quickly correct misinformation resulting from false rumours preventing possible further loss of lives, a leading researcher will tell a public debate on 25th October at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

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Come here often?

04 August 2011

A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge researchers.

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