UESTC Workshop (Summer 2018) Lecture Slides and Readings

• Course Overview
• Chapter 1 Controlling Your Volume
  • Gerard J. Foschini and Zoran Miljanic, A Simple Distributed Autonomous Power Control Algorithm and its Convergence, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1993.
• Chapter 2 Accessing Networks "Randomly"
  • G. Bianchi and I. Tinnirello, Remarks on IEEE 802.11 DCF performance analysis, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 2005.
• Chapter 3 Pricing Data Smartly
  • R. Edell and P. Varaiya, Providing Internet access: what we learn from INDEX, IEEE Networks, Vol. 13, Issue 5, September-October 1999.
  • Andrew Odlyzko, Paris metro pricing for the internet , 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 3-5, 1999.
• Chapter 4 Bidding for Ad Spaces
• Chapter 5 Ordering Search Results
  • Kurt Bryan and Tanya Leise, The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google, SIAM Review, 48(3), 569-581, 2006.
• Chapter 6 Combining Product Ratings
  • Dan Trommater, What do you really know? These tables will test you.
  • Mahzarin Banaji, Beyond Belief: The Table Top Illusion.
  • Ben Kuhn, Why squared error?
• Chapter 7 Recommending Movies to Watch
  • Marc Andreessen, Why Software Is Eating the World.
  • Allen B. Downey, Think Stats.
  • Allen B. Downey, Think Bayes.
  • Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R.
• Chapter 8 Learning Socially
  • Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang, Social learning networks: A brief survey, 48th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS), March 2014.
  • Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang, Social learning networks: Efficiency optimization for MOOC forums, IEEE Infocom, 2016.
  • Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang, MOOC performance prediction via clickstream data and social learning networks, IEEE Infocom, 2015.
  • Christopher Brinton, et al., Learning about social learning in MOOCs: From statistical analysis to generative model, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 7(4), 2014.
• Chapter 9 Viralizing Video Clips
  • Wikipedia, Centrality.
  • Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle, Centrality and Power, Introduction to Social Network Methods, 2005.
• Chapter 10 Influencing People
• Chapter 11 Inventing the Internet
  • The first Internet connection, with UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock
  • UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock displays Internet's first router
  • UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock on packet switching, early Internet
  • UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock on the Theory of Packets
• Chapter 13 Controlling Congestion
  • J. H. Saltzer, et al., End-to-end arguments in system design, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 2, Issue 4, November 1984.
• Chapter 14 Navigating a Small World
  • Duncan Watts and Steven Strogatz, Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks, Nature, June 4, 1998.
  • Kevin Bacon, TED talk: The Six Degrees.
  • Allen B. Downey, Chapter 3, Small World Graphs, Think Complexity.