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
I am on leave for the 2009-2010 academic year. Prospective and current students with questions should contact meg@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
Submit your interdisciplinary research to the 4th conference on Weblogs and Social Media, due Jan 8, 2010. To be held in Washington DC in May!
Submissions due Dec 15 for the third Workshop on Search and Social Media (at WSDM '10).
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.
