09/08/2011. Another grid's vulnerability. The failure of a single piece of equipment in Yuma, Ariz, triggered a massive blackout which left more than 4 million people without power, after a cascaded failue across southern Arizona and into California and northern Mexico. That remindes us a serious black out in Italy, 2003 that affected a total of 56 million people. Almost all of Italy was out of power for 12 hours. And the initial cause is the power line which supplied electricity to Italy from Switzerland was damaged by storms.

We are the slave of our own aspirations.

Complex network is not new; however, complex network in communication networks is emerging. How long will this topic being hot?

Answer: Check the history of financial networks and biological networks research in computer science.

06/12/2011: The third version of my academic homepage is up!

Will be uploaded soon...