PageRank
PageRank is the algorithm most famous for being one of the original innovations that made Google stand out as a search engine. It was
defined in the classic paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. While this algorithm clearly impacted web searching, it has also been useful in a variety of other applications.
This episode presents a high level description of this algorithm and how it might apply when trying to establish who writes the most influencial
academic pap