Don Turnbull Assistant Professor (512) 232-3508 Room: SZB 562C http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~donturn/

Bio:

Don Turnbull is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Don's teaching and research focuses on designing Web information architectures, information systems analysis, Information Retrieval the Semantic Web and Knowledge Management Systems.

Early in his career, Don worked as a Methodologist at KnowledgeWare, Inc. designing CASE tools for client-server applications as well as working on usability, hypertext and multimedia development issues. He also worked on a number of commercial software applications including Uninstaller for Windows. In the nascent days of the World Wide Web, Don was the Lead Technical Architect at IBM Interactive Multimedia, working on the World Book/IBM Multimedia Encyclopedia and other large- scale information architecture design and development projects.

Don received his doctorate from the University of Toronto focusing on Knowledge Discovery (Data Mining) for Informetric and Behavioral Models of Web Use. Previously, Don was the Director of Advanced Development at Outride, Inc., a Xerox PARC spin-off company that specialized in personalized information retrieval applications as well as technology patents, and was acquired by Google. He continues to work with industry as a consultant specializing in search systems, interaction design, information analytics as well as semantic and knowledge management technologies.

See http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~donturn/ for more information.