Pirolli, Peter

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Peter Pirolli

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. There he did research on computational cognitive models of learning to program, intelligent tutoring systems, models of generic design problem solving, and learning-to-learn strategies.

Since 1991 he is a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) at the User Interface Research where his main research interests are

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.

External Links:

http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/pirolli/pirolli.html