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Albert-László Barabási
Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Director of the Center for Complex Network Research

Albert-László Barabási in the Press

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Mapping the structure of the brain doesn’t fully explain its function

“Connectomics data is often criticised as, ‘Oh, you get only structure. You don’t get behaviour.’ And this paper is really probing that question to what degree we can [connect the two],” says Albert-László Barabási at Northeastern University in Massachusetts.
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8 ‘So-Called’ Health Foods That Aren’t As Healthy As You Thought

Some packaged foods that you might consider healthy may be classified as ultra-processed, meaning they contain preservatives, additives and artificial ingredients, which can be harmful to your health, explained Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, a professor at Northeastern University College of Science.
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Midweek Reset: Creativity has no age

This week, Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University and author of “The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success,”Albert-László Barabási debunks the myth that youth echoes creativity and says creativity knows no age limit.
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The Controversy of Research Censorship and Preprints

Albert-László Barabási, a computational scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, had another observation when his paper was rejected by the preprint site bioRxiv because the site was no longer accepting manuscripts forecasting COVID-19 predictions about treatments on the basis of computational work.
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What your age really says about your chance of success at work

Albert-László Barabási is a physicist and a network scientist, focusing on a variety of natural, technological and social networks. He is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University. He is also a lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
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What are ultra-processed foods? What should I eat instead?

The site was created by Giulia Menichetti and Albert-László Barabási, two scientists at Northeastern University who study ultra-processed foods and developed a database of over 50,000 foods sold in grocery stores.
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Navigating the grocery aisles with AI

Albert-László Barabási, Giulia Menichetti and Babak Ravandi, data scientists at Northeastern University, and Dariush Mozaffarian of the Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University decided to rely on artificial intelligence.

The Art Market Often Works in Secret. Here’s a Look Inside.

Dr. Barabasi is a professor of network science at Northeastern University and at Central European University. He leads the BarabasiLab, a collective of scientists and artists.
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Coronavirus: AI steps up in battle against Covid-19

In the US, a partnership between Northeastern University’s Barabasi Labs, Harvard Medical School, the Network Science Institute and biotech start-up Scipher Medicine is also on the search for drugs that can quickly be repurposed as Covid-19 treatments.
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Imagine a world without hunger, then make it happen with systems thinking

But using machine learning and artificial intelligence, network scientist Albert László Barabási at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues propose that human diets consist of at least 26,000 biochemicals — and that the vast majority are not known (Nature Food 1, 33–37; 2020).

Albert-László Barabási for Northeastern Global News