It is great news to hear that Hypertext 2008 has announced that Prof. Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University will be the second invited speaker. Those in the hypertext community will know Jon from his seminal work on the HITS algorithm of finding hubs and authorities for searching. He's also done work with social networking and has created search algorithms and trying to identify communities on the web (of which my PhD work is related to as well).
More information on Jon Kleinberg is here:
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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