When and where was Jon Kleinberg born?
Jon Michael Kleinberg was born in 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father Eugene worked as a mathematics professor at SUNY Buffalo.
Jon Michael Kleinberg was born in 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father Eugene worked as a mathematics professor at SUNY Buffalo.
Jon received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Cornell University in 1993. He later earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996.
The MacArthur Foundation gave him a Fellowship known as the genius grant in 2005. He won the Nevanlinna Prize in 2006 for computational mathematics.
The HITS algorithm automatically identifies leading hubs and authorities in a network of hyperlinked pages. It serves web search by building on eigenvector-based methods used in other algorithms.
Kleinberg studied the small world experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram which showed short paths exist between individuals in social networks. His formal model uses a two dimensional grid where each node has short-range connections.