Katayanagi Prize recognizes emerging leadership in networking researcher
Jon Kleinberg, a computer science professor at Cornell University, has won the 2009 Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize for his research into such network phenomena as how Web pages link, how social media friendships happen and how peer-to-peer file-sharing works.
The prize, which includes a $5,000 honorarium, is presented annually by Carnegie Mellon University and the Tokyo University of Technology.
Also being honored this year is Donald Knuth, an emeritus professor at Stanford University who is author of the widely read and respected “The Art of Computer Programming.”
As for Kleinberg, he’s produced a prolific amount of research and is readying a book called “Networks, Crowds and Markets.” Research papers from Kleinberg (and co-authors) include “Meme-Tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle” and “Mapping the World’s Photos.”
“His work has formed fundamentally new connections between computer science and social science,” said Randal Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, in a statement.
Kleinberg is also known for his work in algorithms at IBM, including an advance seen as being a model for the PageRank system used by Google.
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