Albert-László Barabási is a network scientist at Northeastern University, and holds an appointment in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Barabási’s research covers all sorts of networks and he is the author of several books. In this episode, he and Mattias Fridström discuss: 

• The Barabási–Albert model: an algorithm for generating random scale-free networks 
• What Internet operators can learn from network science
• Barabási’s work in network medicine
• Using big data and network tools to understand how art and science develop 
• What areas of Internet networks that will be in focus in five years’ time