Articles in the Personal Category
Academic, CIPR, Personal, SOIS »
I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted an offer to join the faculty of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
As of August 18, 2008, I will be an Assistant Professor at SOIS, with teaching responsibilities focusing on its undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Information Resources, and my research will be aligned with the Information Policy concentration of its new Ph.D. in Information Studies. I also will be affiliated with the Center for Information Policy Research.
On a personal note, it is hard for me to …
Academic, Dissertation, Personal »
I’m pleased to announce that I have successfully defended my dissertation, “The Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility.”
Thanks to everyone for their help and support.
(blogging will be light for the next week…)
Academic, Conferences, Internet, Personal, Surveillance »
With the dissertation completed (the defense still awaits), I can now turn my attention to a few other projects for the summer months. Primary among them is finishing up a book collecting various interdisciplinary research papers on Web search engines I’m editing with Amanda Spink.
Also on the summer agenda are two exciting workshops. First, I’ll be attending the “Surveillance Summer Seminar” hosted by the Surveillance Project at Queens University:
The Surveillance Summer Seminar provides an intensive, multi-disciplinary learning experience that addresses key issues of surveillance studies, and in ways that would …
A2K, Academic, Dissertation, ISP, Personal, Privacy, Search Engines »
Motivated by recent events, I’m pleased to announce that I have completed and filed my dissertation, “The Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility.” All that awaits is the oral defense (please be kind, Siva).
Assuming the defense goes well (/knocking on wood), I’m also thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Information Society Project at Yale Law School as the Microsoft Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year. While at ISP, I hope to continue to explore …
Personal »
Welcome to the world, Ethan Patrick Zimmer! Ethan arrived 6 days early, but still weighed in at 7 pounds, 13 ounces, and 20 inches long.
Some have ascribed his serious expression to being the child of a lawyer and an academic; others think he is disgruntled because the hospital posted his personal information on the card above his head without his consent.
We’re just happy he’s here!
(as you might suspect, blogging will be extremely light for the next, oh, 18 years)
~ Thanks to everyone who have sent their congratulations and best wishes, …
