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Photo credit: Scavone Photography<\/p><\/div>\n

On June 13, the AMS, together with MSRI hosted another in its series of biannual Congressional Briefings<\/a>, with that title. Our presenter was Jon Kleinberg<\/a>, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. Introductory remarks were made by MSRI Director David Eisenbud, AMS President Jill Pipher, and me.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kleinberg\u2019s research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks like the Web and other social media platforms.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a great presentation. This is the fifth of these I\u2019ve run and I am starting to feel guilty about saying they are each great. But, each one has been great. We\u2019ve had<\/p>\n