Resumen
In 1981, 10-year-old Jon Kleinberg realized he could use his Apple II computer not just to play existing games but to invent his own. That epiphany kindled in Kleinberg, now the Tisch professor of computer science at Cornell University, a passion that led him to become a rising star in computer science. The latest kudo: In April, Kleinberg won the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the ComputingSciences for his pioneering work in Web search techniques and large social networks. The Web link-analysis models Kleinberg created while a visiting scientist at IBM Almaderi Research Center in 1996 contributed to the success of search-engine algorithms that help people navigate the volume and diversity of information on the Web, which had just exploded onto the scene a few years before.