Information Retrieval Design, a book by James D. Anderson and Jose Perez-Carballo
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About the Authors

JAMES D. ANDERSON (B.A., Harvard College, M.S.L.S., D.L.S., Columbia University) is professor emeritus of library and information science in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey. He was associate dean of this school from 1983 through 1997.  His library career included service at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska, and the Multnomah County Public Library (Portland, Oregon).  He taught at Columbia, St. John's, and the City University of New York before coming to Rutgers in 1977, where he specialized in the design of information retrieval databases.  Major projects included the international bibliography and database of the Modern Language Association of America and the bilingual (French and English) Bibliography of the History of Art, sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.  At Rutgers he also chaired the President's Select Committee for Lesbian and Gay Concerns, and  fought for equal benefits for lesbian and gay employees, without success. He left Rutgers in 2003 to protest the new president's proclamation that less than half benefits for lesbian and gay employees was a "reasoned response." For the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) he edited and published the journal More Light Update on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues from 1980 to 2003. See the Bibliography for his relevant publications.

JOSE PEREZ-CARBALLO (B.A. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ph.D., New York University) is associate professor of computer information systems at California State University, Los Angeles. He specializes in IR systems for academia and industry. He has participated in several collaborations in TREC (Text Retrieval Conferences) focusing on the interactive and natural language processing tracks. After five years at Rutgers University, where he taught and pursued research in human information behavior and web resource design in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, he joined a company in Cupertino, California as an knowledge architect. He worked there on the design and implementation of domain specific knowledge representation systems for facilitating user interaction with large IR databases and in the application of natural language processing to enhance the performance of IR systems. His publications related to this book are listed in the Bibliography.