Archive for the 'Personal' Category
Joining UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008I 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 […]
Completion
Friday, June 1st, 2007I’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…)
Upcoming Events
Friday, May 11th, 2007With 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 […]
Career Announcements
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007Motived 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 […]
Welcome, Ethan Patrick Zimmer
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Welcome 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 […]




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