Thomas K Landauer, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, and President of Knowledge Analysis Technologies, LLC. (KAT). Dr. Landauer holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has held regular faculty appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dartmouth College, Stanford, and Princeton Universities. He was for 25 years Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and its successor, Bellcore. At Bellcore he was director of Cognitive Science Research, a group of computer scientists, linguists, and cognitive psychologists who conducted research on computer and communication-based tools for enhancing human learning and performance, including the original development of the theory and implementation of LSA. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Fellow of The Institute of Cognitive Science. He has been president of KAT since its founding in 1998. Dr. Landauer has published over 120 articles and authored or edited four books, including The Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, and The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability and Productivity, winner of the Association of American Publishers award for best book in Computer Science in 1994. Dr. Landauer is an internationally recognized leader in applied cognitive science research. He serves on several editorial boards in relevant fields, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Experimental Psychology and Human Factors and Ergonomics Divisions of the American Psychological Society, a member of the (honorary) Computer Human Interaction Academy, and the (honorary) Society of Experimental Psychologists. He is a named inventor on five patents for applications of LSA. As academic researcher since joining the University of Colorado, he has been PI or Co-PI on grants from DARPA, the McDonnell Foundation, the Army Research Institute, NSF, IES and others. As president of KAT he has been closely involved in the design and supervision of several SBIR contracts for R&D on educational technology and multilingual search engines, funded by NSF, DoEd, ARI, AFRL, DARPA, ONR and NASA.

 

 

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