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richWelcome to my home page.  I hold a dual-culture faculty position at the University of Hawaii at the intersection of Information & Computer Sciences and Library & Information Science.  I'm interested in how people integrate diverse types of knowledge, from collections of diverse documents to the work of people with different kinds of expertise.

I study information integration in interdisciplinary scientific collaborations as a Co-Investigator with the NASA Astrobiology Institute at UH, and in social computing environments with the Answerbag question answering community.

I am also Chair of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Communication and Information Sciences, which encompasses four units and three colleges across the University of Hawaii.