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[[Image:Pirolli.jpg|thumb|Peter Pirolli]] | [[Image:Pirolli.jpg|thumb|Peter Pirolli]] | ||
'''Peter Pirolli''' is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education. | '''Peter Pirolli''' is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education. | ||
His Grades are a B.Sc. in Psychology and Anthropology (Trent University, Canada) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (Carnegie Mellon University). | His Grades are a B.Sc. in Psychology and Anthropology (Trent University, Canada) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (Carnegie Mellon University). | ||
From 1985 to 1994 he was a professor at the School of Education at the University of California (Berkeley) and a member of the Cognitive Science Institute. | |||
Since 1991 he is a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) at the User Interface Research where he does a lot of research especially on | |||
*Human-Information | *Human-Information | ||
*Cognitive Science | *Cognitive Science | ||
Revision as of 23:01, 10 April 2006
Peter Pirolli is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education.
His Grades are a B.Sc. in Psychology and Anthropology (Trent University, Canada) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (Carnegie Mellon University).
From 1985 to 1994 he was a professor at the School of Education at the University of California (Berkeley) and a member of the Cognitive Science Institute. Since 1991 he is a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) at the User Interface Research where he does a lot of research especially on
- Human-Information
- Cognitive Science
- Information Foraging Theory, Information Scent and Sense Making (e.g. Table Lense Method)
Information Foraging includes strategies and technology for seeking, gathering, and using information e.g. on-line information in the web with its most important concept: Information Scent.
Besides this his other interests are sports like e.g. surfing, inline-skating, weightlifting, mountainbiking and running.