信息来源： http://awards.acm.org/2008/acm-infosys-award.cfm Jon Kleinberg Named Recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences Network Pioneer Recognized for Revolutionary Advances in Web Search Techniques Award Citation For his contributions to the science of networks and the World Wide Web. His work is a deep combination of social insights and mathematical reasoning. Jon Kleinberg, 37, a professor at Cornell University, developed models that document how information is organized on the Web, how it spreads through large social networks, and how these networks are structured to create the small world phenomenon known as six degrees of separation . Kleinberg's use of mathematical models to illuminate search and social networking tools that underpin today's social structure has created interest in computing from people not formerly drawn to this field. As the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, Kleinberg was cited for his work on the use of link analysis, a search technique that ranks the absolute number as well as the most relevant, trusted sources of pages linked to a Web search query. His Hubs and Authorities algorithm along with Google's PageRank algorithm appeared at a time when Web search techniques were based on keyword indexing. Together, this work revealed a basic relationship between network structure and information that fundamentally changed the direction of research and commercial activity on the Web. In 2005, Kleinberg was named a MacArthur Fellow. He was awarded the Nevanlinna Mathematics Prize in 2006, and in 2008, he was named one of the best brains under 40 by Discover Magazine . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 1996, he has been a visiting scientist at IBM's Almaden Research Center, in addition to a professor of computer science at Cornell where he has also built a reputation as an engaging teacher with a creative ability to explain complex ideas in a clear and lucid manner. View Videos with Jon Kleinberg Challenges in Social Network Data , from the ACM SIGKDD 2007 Conference. The Structure of Information Pathways in a Social Communication Network, from ACM SIGKDD 2008. Additional information. An Interview with Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University . Captured at ACM SIGKDD 2007, interviewer Davor Orlic discusses Kleinberg's popularity at Cornell, how students affectionately call him Rebel King, his text book on algorithms, and his future plans. Standing-Room-Only Turnout for Jon Kleinberg Lecture Cornell University Professor. Jon Kleinberg drew in a standing-room-only crowd with his lecture on Diffusion and Cascading Behavior in Complex Networks at Yahoo! Research on Thursday, August 3, 2006. 2008 ACM-Infosys Award Citation Page Read ACM's Press Release on the 2008 ACM-Infosys Award recipient 个人主页 infosys-science-foundation infosys Six degrees of separation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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