Jon Kleinberg

**[[ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/ | Jon Michael Kleinberg ]]** (born 1971, Boston) is a Professor of Computer Science at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University|Cornell University]]. He received his B.S. from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University|Cornell]] in 1993 and his Ph.D. from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology|MIT]] in 1996. His current research is focused on the mathematical analysis and modeling of the combinatorial structure of networks and information. His recent work includes an improvement to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm|HITS algorithm]] which he developed at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM|IBM]]'s [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Almaden_Research_Laboratory&action=edit|Almaden Research Laboratory]] as a Visiting Scientist in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEVER_project|CLEVER project]]. HITS is a very influential algorithm of his, conceptually similar to the [[http: