Deborah McGuinness
Location: (Troy, NY)
Personal Research Web Page: http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Tetherless_World_Constellation_at_RPI
Keywords: Semantic Web, Explanation, Web Science, eScience, e-Science, Explanation, Trust, ontologies, knowledge representation and reasoning,
Posted on: Friday, May 21st, 2010
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, HCI / CSCW, Information Systems / Information Science, Scientific/Medical Informatics, Social Computing / Social Informatics
Research Interests:
Deborah McGuinness is the Tetherless World Constellation (tw.rpi.edu) Chair and professor of computer science and cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has also just been named the director of the new Web Science Research Center at RPI, Prior to joining RPI in 2007, she led the knowledge systems laboratory (ksl.stanford.edu) at Stanford University and prior to that, was part of the AI Research Department at Bell Labs / AT&T Labs.
She co-directs the Tetherless World along with Jim Hendler and Peter Fox.
Her current interests center around making the next generation web more usable and useful. Projects focus on designing semantic tools and applications that help access, integrate, understand, and use data. Current projects include emphasis on semantic technologies, knowledge provenance, privacy, policy, and workflow transparency, semantic eScience, linked open data, trust, social networking, and collaboration technologies, ontology evolution environments, and ethical, policy, and social aspects of web use and usability.
Contact Information:
dlm@cs.rpi.edu, http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Tetherless_World_Constellation_at_RPI,
