- Professor at U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1997
- Founded Prairienet, a community computing system at U. Illinois
- Worked on virtual reality lab at Syracuse University
- Research interest.s focuses on information retrieval, using statistical methods to identify relations among terms and documents ("information space")
Personal:
- Married to Ilana Kingsley, indexpup.com
- 3 dogs, 2 cats, several fish
- Liv.ing in a house insulated with straw bales that we built
ourselves
- Into camping geeking
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