Senior HP Fellow
Director, Information Dynamics Lab
Bernardo Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and director of
the Information Dynamics Lab at HP Labs.
His current research is focused on designing novel mechanisms
for accessing and aggregating disperse information, as well
as enhancing privacy and trust in electronic transactions
and negotiations.
Previously, Huberman's research concentrated on the World Wide Web,
with an emphasis on the dynamics of its growth and use. This work helped
uncover the nature of electronic markets, the detailed structure of the
web and the laws governing the way people surf for information. One of
the originators of the field of ecology of computation, Huberman recently
published the book, "The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of
Information, " with MIT Press.
In the past, Huberman worked in condensed matter physics, dealing with
systems ranging from superionic conductors to two-dimensional superfluids,
and has made contributions to the theory of critical phenomena in low-dimensional
systems. He is one of the discoverers of chaos in a number of physical
systems, and also established a number of universal properties of nonlinear
dynamical systems. His research into the dynamics of complex structures
led to his discovery of ultradiffusion in hierarchical systems.
In the field of information sciences, Huberman predicted the existence
of phase transitions in artificial intelligence and large-scale distributed
systems, and developed an economics approach to the problem of resource
allocation in hard computational problems. This approach is also useful
in reducing the latencies experienced when downloading pages of the World
Wide Web.
Huberman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 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 Symbolic Systems Program
at Stanford University.
Huberman received his PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania,
and is currently a Consulting Professor in the Department of Applied Physics
at Stanford University.
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