Dean, School of Information
Professor of Information, Psychology, and Information, Risk & Operations Management

Degrees
Ph.D. Loughborough University of Technology
B.A., M.A. (First Class) University College Cork

What's new?

I contributed a short piece to the June/July 2008 issue of BASIST for a series of essays on genre in information. My White Paper for CLIR on the future of academic libraries is makes a case for information as a discovery accelerator.

Jit Sengupta and I were awarded the Rudolph J. Joenk, Jr. Award for Best Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication for our "Query by Templates: Using the Shape of Information to Search Next-Generation Databases".

e-Copies are now available of the majority of my writings since 1988 on this site- just click on publications link above. Or read my InfoMatters blog to get some of my latest words on all matters information-related.

Next talks and conference trips

ASIST 2008, Oct 23rd-27th

We are building a great School here at UT, and will be moving to renovated new quarters next year. You can read an interview with me about this from IT@UT. You can read another interview about some aspects of user research at the HOT Lab site. And we are hiring faculty again- check the home page for details.

Contact
School of Information
SZB 564
1 University Station D7000
University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1276
Tel : 512.471.3821
adillon at ischool.utexas.edu