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COLLOQUIUM

A long look at a young OSN

Balachander Krishnamurthy
AT&T Labs-Research

Friday, April 9, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Fuller Labs 320

Abstract:

Twitter: A 2-year longitudinal study - balachander krishnamurthy http://www.research.att.com/~bala/papers

Note: this title and abstract was designed to fit into a 140-character

tweet, the limit for a Twitter message.

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Balachander Krishnamurthy has been with AT&T Labs--Research since his PhD from Purdue University. He works on Internet privacy, Online Social Networks, and Internet measurements. He has authored and edited ten books, holds twenty five patents, has given invited talks in over thirty countries, and has published over 80 papers. He co-founded the Internet Measurement Conference, Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet workshop, and the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks. He has been on the thesis committee of several PhD students, collaborated with over seventy researchers worldwide, and given tutorials at several industrial sites and conferences.

His most recent book "Internet Measurements: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications" (525pp, Wiley, with Mark Crovella, July 2006) is the first book focusing on Internet Measurement. His previous book 'Web Protocols and

Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement'

(672 pp, Addison-Wesley, with Jennifer Rexford) is the first in-depth book on the technology underlying the World Wide Web, and has been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese.

Bala is homepageless and is not on any OSN but many of his papers can be

found at

http://www.research.att.com/~bala/papers

Host: Prof. Craig Wills

Refreshments will be served.

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