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Bernardo Huberman is a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, and Director of the Social Computing Lab at HP Labs. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a Consulting Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and the Symbolic System Program at Stanford University.

Early life and work
Originally from Argentina, Huberman received his MS at the University of Argentina in 1966. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. In 1977 he was a visiting scientist at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. In 1988, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, and the Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris,France. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1993 and a Visiting Professor at the European School of Business, INSEAD in France in 1999. He served as a Trustee and Secretary at the Aspen Center for Physics between 1980-1983.

Huberman originally worked in condensed matter physics, ranging from superionic conductors to two-dimensional superfluids, and made contributions to the theory of critical phenomena in low dimensional systems. He was one of the discoverers of chaos in a number of physical systems, and also established a number of universal properties in nonlinear dynamical systems. His research into the dynamics of complex structures led to his discovery of ultradiffusion in hierarchical systems.

In 1972, Huberman joined Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, PARC. In the field of information sciences, he predicted the existence of phase transitions in large scale distributed systems, and developed an economics approach to the solution of hard computational problems. He has authored or edited three books about the ecology of computation and the ecology of the web and is known as one of the creators of the field of ecology of computation .

In 1989 his team designed and implemented Spawn, a market system for the allocation of resources among machines in computer networks, and a few years later a multiagent thermal market mechanism for the control of building environments. That work served as prelude to Tycoon, a market for computational resources that HP Lab has deployed around the world. This work has received the Horizon Award for Innovation. After 28 years at Xerox PARC, Huberman became a Senior Fellow at HP Labs.

Recent work and recognition
For several years, Dr. Huberman's research concentrated on the World Wide Web, with particular emphasis the dynamics of its growth and use. This work helped uncover the nature of electronic markets, as well as the design of novel mechanisms for enhancing privacy and trust in e-commerce and negotiations. With members of his group he discovered a number of strong regularities, such as the dynamics that govern the growth of the web, and the laws that determine how users surf the web and create the observed congestion patterns. In addition, this research helped establish and understand the winner-take-all nature of markets in the web, while leading to the design of several novel mechanisms for protecting privacy and enhancing trust in electronic communities. These results, were widely covered by the press.

Presently, Huberman's work centers on the design of novel mechanisms for discovering and aggregating information in distributed systems as well as understanding the dynamics of information in large networks. He has over 50 publications in the ACM. He also holds at least 20 patents on self-repairing parallel computers, a parallel motion detector, distributed controls for smart matter, market mechanisms for electronic auctions of services in the Internet and also novel caching strategies. His work has been quoted as the subject of several news articles in media sources such as The New York Times , CNN , Wired , BBC News , The San Francisco Chronicle , and New Scientist

Awards and honors

 * Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * Fellow, Japan Society for the Advancement of Science
 * Fellow, American Physical Society
 * CECOIA Prize on Economics and Artificial Intelligence
 * IBM Prize of the Society for Computational Economics
 * Trustee, Aspen Center for Physics
 * Chairman, Council of Fellows at Xerox Corporation