Publications

Jon Kleinberg: 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award Recipient, Past Multiple Awards Recipient, 2008 Discover Magazine's "20 Best Brains Under 40", 2005 MacArthur Fellow, Member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Internationally Noted Cornell Professor and Researcher, Celebrated Teacher

Interview by Stephen Ibaraki, FCIPS, I.S.P., MVP, DF/NPA, CNP

... Your achievements demonstrate your work as founder and international leader in social network analysis. Can you share more about what this means?

"....Social network analysis is an area that reaches back quite a long time and has been a very active area in sociology, anthropology and other disciplines in the social sciences. When computer scientists began thinking about this in the late 1990's we had a lot of expertise to draw on. There are two issues going on here. One is why are computer scientists drawn to this?....The second point is because of all this data the kinds of social network questions that you ask are related but somewhat distinct from what sociologists would have....The interesting challenge now is to try to combine these two sets of research..."

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