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Frigyes Karinthy, the Hungarian writer, who in a 1929 short story conjectured
that any two people on Earth could be connected by five handshakes.
(from http://www.iif.hu/~visontay/ponticulus/mesterkurzus/somlyo_a.html)
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The Central
Cafe in Budapest today. Karinthy wrote most
of his books in this coffee and cake shop.
Today it functions as a restaurant and cake
shop.
(from http://www.famouslandmarks.com/leasing/preview.asp?ID=1562&mode=LARGE360)
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Stanley Milgram the Harvard researcher who in 1967 preformed a
series of experiment that lead to the concept
of "six
degrees". For more information about Milgram's work, see www.stanleymilgram.com
For a recent artilce on him, see http://207.159.134.31/pt62milgram.html (from http://www.sheftman.com/cab1a/mihugo/index.html)
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The Nature paper reporting on 19 degrees of separation on the WWW.
[PDF]
(from http://www.nd.edu/~networks)
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Réka Albert, as
a graduate student at Notre Dame, and the
first author of the 19 degrees paper.
(At Univ. of Notre Dame)
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Hawoong Jeong, who
build the search engine that mapped a portion
of the web, making the 19 degrees study
possible.
(At Univ. of Notre Dame, Nov. 1999)
(from Business2.0 magazine)
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Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles the
two NEC computer scientists who were the first to estimate the size of the web, showing that even
the fastest search engines cover only a small fraction of all webpages available
on the World Wide Web.
(from http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/giles/pictures/onlinetoday.jpg)
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A poster of John Guare's
Six Degree of Separation play.
(from http://www.footlightsgallery.com/imagelg/sixdeg.jpg)
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The cover of the video of the Six
Degrees movie, starring Stockard
Channing and Will Smith, produced after
the Guare's play.
(from http://www.amazon.com)
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