[Nettime-bold] book announcement--Huberman

[Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil@MIT.EDU>]

I thought readers of the NETTIME-L might be interested in this book.  For 
more information, please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262083035/  Thank you!

Best,
Jud

The Laws of the Web
Patterns in the Ecology of Information
Bernardo A. Huberman

Despite its haphazard growth, the Web hides powerful underlying 
regularities--from the organization of its links to the patterns found in 
its use by millions of users. Many of these regularities have been 
predicted on the basis of theoretical models based on a field of 
physics--statistical mechanics--that few would have thought applicable to 
the social domain.

In this book Bernardo Huberman explains in accessible language the laws of 
the Web. One of the foremost researchers in the field, Huberman has 
established, for example, that the surfing patterns of individuals are 
describable by a precise law. Such findings can lead to more efficient Web 
design and use. They also shed light on social mechanisms whose 
significance goes beyond the Web. In this sense, the Web is a gigantic 
informational ecosystem that can be used to quantify and test explanations 
of human behavior and social interaction.

Bernardo A. Huberman is an HP Fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 
Palo Alto, California.

5 3/8 x 8, 128 pp., 10 illus.
cloth ISBN 0-262-08303-5

Jud Wolfskill
Associate Publicist
MIT Press
5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA  02142
617.253.2079
617.253.1709 fax
wolfskil@mit.edu

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