[Metro-ny_asist] RE Welcome and who is here

[michael.cole at nimiq.net]

I'm Michael Cole, a PhD student at the Schoool of Communication,
Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University. I live in
Manhattan.

I have been building systems for project-based knowledge capture that
can be used to provide contextually situated support for information and
knowledge use. These are object-oriented systems that run identically on
all operating systems. My background includes 20 years of consulting
with Fortune-200 companies focused on analysis of technology-based
opportunies and research portfolios.

My academic interests include the role of context in knowledge
communication, browsing interfaces for clustered collections, and models
of news event descriptions for use in topic tracking and detection
systems. I am also exploring application of machine learning to solve
problems in these areas. This last semester I taught database design and
management in the MLIS program.

I look forward to meeting you all.


Michael Cole
mcole at scils.rutgers.edu
michael.cole at nimiq.net