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Bernardo Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and Director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He received his Ph.D.
in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a Consulting
Professor in the Department
of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He originally worked in condensed matter
physics, ranging from superionic conductors to two-dimensional
superfluids, and made contributions to the theory of critical phenomena in
low dimensional systems. He was one of the discoverers of chaos in a number of
physical systems, and also established a number of universal properties in nonlinear
dynamical systems. His research into the dynamics of complex structures led to
his discovery of ultradiffusion in hierarchical systems.
For several years, Dr. Huberman's research concentrated
on the World Wide Web, with particular emphasis the dynamics
of its growth and use. This work helped uncover the nature of
electronic markets, as well as the design of novel mechanisms
for enhancing privacy and trust in e-commerce and negotiations.
With members of his group he discovered a number of strong regularities,
such as the dynamics that govern the growth of the web, and the
laws that determine how users surf the web and create the observed
congestion patterns. In addition, this research helped establish
and understand the winner-take-all nature of markets in the web,
while leading to the design of several novel mechanisms for protecting
privacy and enhancing trust in electronic communities. These
results, were widely covered by the press.
Presently, his work centers on the design of novel mechanisms
for discovering and aggregating information in distributed systems
as well as understanding the dynamics of information in large
networks.
In 1989 his team designed and implemented Spawn, a market system
for the allocation of resources among machines in computer networks,
and a few years later a multiagent thermal market mechanism for
the control of building environments. That work served as
prelude to Tycoon, a market for computational resources
that HP Lab has deployed around the world. This work has
received the
Horizon Award for Innovation.
He also holds a number
of patents on self-repairing parallel computers, a parallel motion
detector, distributed controls for smart matter, market
mechanisms for electronic auctions of services in the Internet
and also novel caching strategies.
Dr. Huberman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,
a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
a former trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics and Fellow of
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, as well as a
faculty member in the Symbolic
Systems Program at Stanford University. He is co-winner of
the 1990 CECOIA prize in Economics and Artificial Intelligence
and shared the IBM Prize of the Society for Computational
Economics. He was also the Chairman of the Council of Fellows
at Xerox Corporation and the manager of the Internet Ecologies
Group. He has held visiting professorships at the University
of Paris, the University of Copenhagen and the European School
of Business.
huberman@hpl.hp.com
Phone: (650) 857-5318
Fax: (650) 852-8156
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