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Joseph A. Konstan

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Joseph A. Konstan
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
AwardsIEEE Fellow (2013)
ACM Fellow (2008)
ACM Distinguished Scientist (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Human-Computer Interaction
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
Thesis An Event-Based Architecture for Graphical User Interface Toolkits  (1993)
Doctoral advisorLawrence A. Rowe[1]

Joseph A. Konstan is an American computer scientist and the Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are human computer interaction, social computing, collaborative information filtering, online communities and medical and health applications of Internet technology.[2] He is best known for his work in collaborative filtering recommenders (the GroupLens project), and for his work in online HIV prevention.[3]

He received the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2013.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Ph.D. Dissertations - 1993".
  2. ^ a b "Joseph A. Konstan".
  3. ^ "Joseph Konstan".
  4. ^ "Award Recipients". ACM SIGCHI. Retrieved 2020-08-06.