Gary Geisler is the latest faculty member to join the iSchool at UT. Gary specializes in the design and development of digital libraries, user interface design, and digital multimedia. He has led or contributed to the development of several successful digital libraries that feature visual and educational materials, including the Open Video Project, the Celtic Art & Cultures Web site, and the iLumina digital library of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology learning resources. In addition to authoring a variety of articles, he was the recipient of an EDUCAUSE Medal Award for the Celtic Art & Cultures Project and a National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Japan Fellowship. In 2003 his co-authored paper on the use of surrogates for digital video retrieval won the Vannevar Bush Award for Best Paper at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

Gary holds a B.A. (cum laude) in Literature and Writing from the University of California,San Diego, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gary joins us from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston where he teaches Evaluation of Information Services, and Technology for Information Professionals.

In Spring 2006 he will be teaching INF 385M: Database Management: Principles and Applications.