Graph mining refers to extracting knowledge from massive graphs. The data sets of telephone calls we see at AT&T can be viewed as a single graph, with several hundred million phone numbers as nodes, and calls between phone numbers as edges. It is a giant social network, like an internet connections graph or a rich citation network.
My advisor is Prof. Ben Shneiderman, and I am a member of HCIL. My research is in the Information Visualization area of the Human-Computer Interaction field. My current research involves Network Visualization. I developed a tool called NVSS (see NVSS project page) to visualize netwoks (citation networks, food webs, social networks, etc.) using semantic substrates.
Solipsis is a pure peer-to-peer system for a massively shared virtual world. There are no central servers at all: it only relies on end-users' machines. Solipsis is a public virtual territory. The world is initially empty and only users will fill it by