Albert Laszlo Barabasi is a leading researcher in complex networks and has advocated
the application of this research to the arts and humanities
see for instance the Leonardo Day at NETSCI 2009
Albert-László Barabási (born March 30, 1967) is a Romanian-born Hungarianscientist. He is the former Emil T. Hofmann professor at the University of Notre Dameand current Distinguished Professor and Director of Northeastern University's Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) and an associate member of the Center of Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University. He introduced in 1999 the concept of scale-free networks and proposed the Barabasi-Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the cellular telephone to the World Wide Webor online communities