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    Joining UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies

    Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

    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 […]

    Completion

    Friday, June 1st, 2007

    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…)

    Upcoming Events

    Friday, May 11th, 2007

    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 […]

    Career Announcements

    Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

    Motived 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, 2007

    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 […]