Biography:Joseph A. Konstan
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Short description: American professor and computer scientist
Joseph A. Konstan | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
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| Awards | IEEE Fellow (2013) ACM Fellow (2008) ACM Distinguished Scientist (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | An Event-Based Architecture for Graphical User Interface Toolkits (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lawrence A. Rowe[2] |
Joseph A. Konstan is an American computer scientist, the Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are human computer interaction, social computing, collaborative information filtering, online communities and medical and health applications of Internet technology.[1] He is best known for his work in collaborative filtering recommenders (the GroupLens project), and for his work in online HIV prevention.[3]
He received the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2013.[4]
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