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 Bernardo A. Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and director
of the Social Computing Lab, which focuses on methods for harvesting
the collective intelligence of groups of people in order to realize
greater value from the interaction between users and information.
He is also a Consulting Professor of Physics in the Applied Physics
Department at Stanford University.
Huberman's research focus is on the relation between local actions
and the global behavior of large, distributed systems. Areas of
exploration include distributed knowledge, social organizations
and the economics of attention.
Much of Huberman's recent work is focused on the World Wide Web,
with an emphasis on the dynamics of its growth and use. This work
helped uncover the nature of electronic markets, the detailed structure
of the web and the laws governing the way people surf for information.
One of the originators of the field of ecology of computation,
Huberman recently published the book, "The Laws of the Web:
Patterns in the Ecology of Information," with MIT Press.
Earlier, Bernardo Huberman worked on the physics of chaos, statistical
physics, the dynamics of distributed systems and Internet characterization.
Huberman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
a former trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics and Fellow of
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is also a recipient
of the Huberman received his PhD in Physics from the University
of Pennsylvania, and is currently a Consulting Professor in the
Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He has been
a visiting Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, the
University of Paris, and Insead, the European School of Business
in Fontainebleau, France.
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 Jon Kleinberg is a Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at Cornell University. His research interests are centered
around issues at the interface of networks and information; in
his recent work, he has focused on the social processes that underpin
large, decentralized information systems.
Kleinberg is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of
MacArthur, Packard, and Sloan Foundation Fellowships, the Nevanlinna
Prize from the International Mathematical Union, and the National
Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research.
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