JonKleinbergisaprofessorofComputerScienceatCornellUniversity.HereceivedhisPh.D.fromM.I.T.in1996.HeistherecipientofanNSFCareerAward,anONRYoungInvestigatorAward,anIBMOutstand-ingInnovationAward,theNationalAcademyofSci-encesAwardforInitiativesinResearch,researchfel-lowshipsfromthePackardandSloanFoundations,andteachingawardsfromtheCornellEngineeringCollegeandComputerScienceDepartment.
Kleinberg'sresearchiscenteredaroundalgorithms,particularlythosecon-cernedwiththestructureofnetworksandinformation,andwithapplicationstoinformationscience,optimization,datamining,andcomputationalbiol-ogy.HisworkonnetworkanalysisusinghubsandauthoritieshelpedformthefoundationforthecurrentgenerationofInternetsearchengines.EvaTardosisaprofessorofComputerScienceatCor-nellUniversity.ShereceivedherPh.D.fromEotvosUniversityinBudapest,Hungaryin1984.SheisamemberoftheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSci-ences,andanACMFellow;sheistherecipientofanNSFPresidentialYoungInvestigatorAward,theFulk-ersonPrize,researchfellowshipsfromtheGuggen-heim,Packard,andSloanFoundations,andteach-ingawardsfromtheCornellEngineenngCollegeandComputerScienceDepartment.Tardos'sresearchinterestsarefocusedonthedesignandanalysisofalgorithmsforproblemsongraphsornetworks.Sheismostknownforherworkonnetwork-flowalgorithmsandapproximationalgorithmsfornetworkproblems.Herrecentworkfocusesonalgorithmicgametheory,anemergingareaconcernedwithdesigningsystemsandalgorithmsforselfishusers.