June 8, 2009
UW Experts: Search, Social Media and Web 2.0
The information revolution is far from over. Below are some UW experts who can offer insight on the latest technologies and trends.
Oren Etzioni
Professor, Computer science and engineering, Director of the Turing Center
Phone: 206-685-3035
Email: etzioni@cs.washington.edu
Web site: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/
Web search, data mining, artificial intelligence. Etzioni developed Farecast, an airfare prediction tool that is incorporated in Microsoft Bing.
Daniel Weld
Professor, Computer science and engineering
Phone: 206-543-9196
Email: weld@cs.washington.edu
Web site: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/
Web search, Internet services, intelligent interfaces, artificial intelligence. Weld taught the Spring 2009 course on the design of Internet search engines.
Joseph Janes
Associate professor, Information School
Phone: 206-616-0987
E-mail: jwj@u.washington.edu
Web site: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/people/facdirectory.aspx?id=3122
Information retrieval, Google’s effects on society
Charlotte Lee
Assistant Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Phone: 206-543-0902
E-mail: cplee@u.washington.edu
Web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/cplee/
Electronic readers, e-books
Mark Zachry
Associate professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Phone: 206-616-7936
E-mail: zachry@u.washington.edu
Web site: http://www.hcde.washington.edu/navpeople/profiles/faculty_profiles/197
Collaborative work and Web 2.0 technologies
Andrew Ko
Assistant professor, Information School
Phone: 206-221-0352
E-mail: ajko@u.washington.edu
Web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/
Adapting to new software and dealing with software problems
Hanson Hosein
Director, Master of Communication in Digital Media
Phone: 206-685-0124
E-mail: hosein@u.washington.edu
Web site: http://mcdm.washington.edu/faculty.shtml
Twitter, journalism, digital media, social media
Kathy Gill
Senior lecturer, Communication
Phone: 206-543-2660
E-mail: kegill@u.washington.edu
Web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/
Twitter, journalism, social media
Malcolm Parks
Professor, Communication
Phone: 206-543-2660
E-mail: macp@u.washington.edu
Web site: http://www.com.washington.edu/faculty/parks.html
Computer-mediated relationships
David Levy
Professor, Information School
Phone: 206-616-2545
E-mail: dmlevy@u.washington.edu
Web site: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/people/facdirectory.aspx?id=3154
Information overload, information and quality of life
