Author: Thomas (Bo) Adler
Biography:
Bo Adler is a PhD candidate studying text evolution and reputation systems for Wikipedia at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
Recently, Wired.com featured his research group’s WikiTrust project, an add-on to Wikipedia that assists lay users to determine the likely trustworthiness of the text in articles found on Wikipedia. He also works as a researcher at Fujitsu Labs of America, where he is currently investigating data-driven health care technologies enabled by pervasive medical sensors for self-monitoring. In the past, Bo was a key contributor to the Automated Ontology project, working on computational linguistics and information retrieval problems; part of which is publicly available as Xurch.
Bo has nearly two decades of experience with research and industry innovation, working on a wide range of projects from multiuser 3D virtual reality and peer-to-peer TV to computer forensics and motion-enabled interfaces for PDAs. He is a co-inventor on twelve patents already approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office, with six additional patents pending.
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Posts:
- Peer Review and Reputation Systems: A Discussion, January 15, 2010