Oskar Sandberg is a key contributor to the Freenet Project, and a PhD graduate of the Chalmers Technical University in

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, Sweden. Oskar collaborated with Ian Clarke to design the new "darknet" model employed in Freenet 0.7, work which was presented at the

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security conference in July 2005. Oskar recently completed a

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about the mathematics of complex networks, especially with regard to the small world phenomenon. Besides this he has an active interest in distributed computer networks and network security, and has been an active contributor to the Freenet Project since 1999. Oskar now works at

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Papers

Ian Clarke, Oskar Sandberg, Brandon Wiley, Theodore W. Hong: Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval Syste
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Oskar Sandberg: Searching in a small world (licentiate thesis
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External links

Oskar Sandberg
- Paper(PDF file): Searching in a Small World. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandberg, Oskar Living people Swedish mathematicians Google employees Year of birth missing (living people)