Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations

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Huberman et all are at it again:
        http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/email/index.html
Here's their research site at HP:
        http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/

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Hah, tracked it down.  This turned up on Slashdot a few weeks ago.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/stories/2003/03/15/newSocialnetworkMappingToolsAreEmerging.html

So these tools are great if you're trying to recommend additional
purchases to a shopper, or if you're trying to identify whole cliques of
seditionists for disappearance.  I'm sure Admiral Poindexter's total
information awareness program had/has grand plans for guilt by correlation.

Are there any morally unobjectionable applications for the technology?

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Owen Densmore wrote:

> Huberman et all are at it again:
>     http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/email/index.html
> Here's their research site at HP:
>     http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/
>
> Owen Densmore           451 Camino Don Miguel     Santa Fe, NM 87505
> Work: 505-983-6305      Cell: 505-570-0168        Home: 505-988-3787
> [hidden email]     http://backspaces.net/
>
>
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