The 2003 Lectures in Computer Science: Internet and Web: Crawling the Algorithmic FoundationsThe Internet has now surpassed by far the computer as the world's largest, most complex, interesting, and important artefact. However, unlike other artefacts, the Internet was not designed purposefully by a single designer, team, or entity; it emerged from the chaotic interaction of thousands of entities, in varying degrees of competition and collaboration. The Internet and the Web are the first computational artefacts whose underlying principles must be sought ex post; they must be studied very much the same way that other sciences study the universe, the brain, the cell, and the market. This year's Lecture in Computer Science will focus on this new discipline, highlighting its emerging ideas, principles, and analytical tools. Christos Papadimitriou
Prof., University of California, Berkeley Hal Varian Prof. and Dean, University of California, Berkeley Prabhakar Raghavan Consulting Prof., Stanford University Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Verity Inc. Paul Spirakis Prof., University of Patras and Director of Computer Technology Institute Costas Courcoubetis Prof., Athens University of Economics and Business Elias Koutsoupias Prof., University of Athens Dimitris Plexousakis Assoc. Prof., University of Crete and Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Vassilis Christophides Assist. Prof., University of Crete and Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
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