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Volume 35, Numbers 3 & 4, 1996
MIT Media Lab
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For want of a bit the user was lost: Cheap user modeling - Author bio

by J. Orwant

Author bio

Jon Orwant MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: orwant@media.mit.edu). Mr. Orwant obtained the B.S. degree in computer science and engineering and the B.S. degree in brain and cognitive science from MIT in 1991, the M.S. degree in media arts and sciences from MIT in 1993, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory. He has published numerous articles about user modeling and electronic newspapers, and has appeared on television and radio and lectured internationally on those topics. He is the author of the programming book, Perl 5 Interactive, and publishes a quarterly magazine, The Perl Journal.