| James French | | Research Associate Professor, Computer Science | | Ph.D., University of Virginia | | | | After several years in industry, Dr. French returned to the University of Virginia in 1987 as a senior scientist in the Institute for Parallel Computation and joined the Department of Computer Science in 1990. His current research interests include information retrieval in widely distributed information systems. He is the editor of five books, and the author or co-author of one book and over 65 papers and book chapters. Professor French is a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, ASIS, and Sigma Xi. | | | | Research Interests | | James French's chief research interests are in the areas of distributed information retrieval and digital libraries. In the area of digital library technology, Professor French is currently collaborating with researchers at several other universities on the development and deployment of NCSTRL, the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library. Professor French is directing a DARPA-sponsored project on Personalized Information Environments (PIE), which are user-centric information-seeking environments that can be widely deployed over the Internet to provide customized search and current awareness services. He also is directing a NASA-sponsored project (EVOC) that is investigating novel search strategies to facilitate finding earth science data. | | |
Sponsored Research
Personalized Information Environments (funded by: DARPA/ITO)
Extending the Vocabulary for Cross-Disciplinary Searching of EOS Data (funded by: NASA)
Integrating a Manual Thesaurus with Automated Term Suggestion (funded by: NASA)
A Sustainable, OAI-Based Implementation of NCSTRL (funded by: Internet Technology Innovation Center)
Personalized Information Environments (IM Evaluation Project) (funded by: DARPA/ITO)
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