Marti A. Hearst
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
About
I am a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information. I have an affiliate position in the Computer Science Division.
Contact me: hearst@ischool.berkeley.edu
Research
My research is focused in the following areas:
- Search Engines and their User Interfaces
- Social Technology (Blogs, Tags, Online Personals)
- Computational Linguistics (Text Mining and Analysis)
- Information Visualization
- Usability in Web Sites, Voting, Security
New Book!
I have just completed Search User Interfaces, the
first academic book on this topic (Cambridge University
Press, Fall 2009). The website has launched! Read the Full Text!
Teaching
Past courses include:
- User Interface Design
- Applied Natural Language Processing
- Technology for Analysis of Social Media
- Information Visualization and Presentation
- Information Organization and Retrieval
Recent Highlights
Panel: Search: The user experience of the future, Silicom Summit 2009.
Talk: Social Technology, NSF.
Paper: Blogging Together, An Examination of Group Blogs, ICWSM'09.
Tutorial: Latest Trends in Bioscience Literature Search, SLA Pharma & Health Division.
Essay: The Decline of Text, Edge.org.
