Hypertext Conference 2008

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Keynote Speakers

Bernardo Huberman
HP Labs

 

Prof. Jon Kleinberg
Cornell University

     

Bernardo Huberman 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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