Resume Anselm Spoerri, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University Education Experience Publications
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA Ph.D. in Information Visualization - 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA M.Sc. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences - 1991 Bedford College – University of London - London, England B.Sc. Honors in Mathematics - 1982
Experience i-Recall Inc., New York City, NY  • CEO and Co-Founder of software start-up [1997 - 2001].  • Sold i-Recall to ActiveGroup in 2001. AT&T Research, Murray Hill, NJ  • Strategy work addressing the future of corporate research, together with McKinsey and Global Business Network [1996 - 97]. AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL  • Researcher in Information Visualization and Internet Tools [1995]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA  • Ph.D. research in Information Visualization at Center for Educational Computing Initiatives [1991 – 94].  • Research assistant in Computational Vision at the Artificial Intelligence Lab [1985 - 87, 90] and the department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences [1983 - 85]. IMAGO Productions, Cambridge, MA  • Independent Filmmaker, Producer & Distributor [1987 - 90].
Publications Handwritten Notes as a Visual Interface to Index, Edit and Publish Audio/Video Highlights [PDF]  • Book chapter in Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries - Its Past, Present, and Future, edited by K. Boerner and C. Chen. Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2002. Souvenir: Making Audio/Video as Easy to Use as Text [PDF]  • Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science in Philadelphia, October 2002. Souvenir: Flexible Note-Tool to Pinpoint and Share Media Highlights [PDF]  • Software demonstration of Souvenir at the ACM SIG Information Retrieval conference in Tampere, August 2002; and at IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) in Lausanne, August 2002. Souvenir: Flexible Note-Tool to Pinpoint and Share Media in Digital Libraries [PDF]  • Software demonstration of Souvenir at the Joint Conference for Digital Libraries in Portland, July 2002. InfoCrystal: Integrating Exact and Partial Matching Approaches Through Visualization  • Presented at RIAO ’94 in New York City, October 1994 InfoCrystal: A Visual Tool for Information Retrieval [PDF]  • Presented at the IEEE Visualization ’93 conference in San Jose, October 1993; and at the ACM Information & Knowledge Management ’93 conference in Washington, DC, November 1993.  • Panel presentation in “Information Visualization: The Next Frontier” at the ACM SIGGRAPH ’94 conference in Orlando, July 1994.  • Demonstration of InfoCrystal software at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction ’94 conference in Boston, April 1994; and at the ACM SIG Information Retrieval conference in Seattle, July 1995.  • Selected for Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, S. Card, J. Mackinlay and B. Shneiderman (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. Novel Route Guidance Displays  • Presented at the IEEE Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems ‘93 conference in Ottawa, Canada, October 1993. Recipient of Third Prize in the Student Paper Competition. Visual Tools for Information Retrieval  • Presented at the IEEE Visual Languages ‘93 symposium in Bergen, Norway, August 1993. The Early Detection of Motion Boundaries (co-author Shimon Ullman)  • Presented at the First Int. Conf. on Computer Vision ‘87 in London, England, June 1987.  • MIT Master’s Thesis, published as MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Technical Report 1275, February 1991.