John O'Donovan

John O'Donovan B.Sc. M.Sc, Ph.D Associate Research Specialist Department of Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. USA. jod @AT@ cs.ucsb.edu phone: +1 805 451 9342 fax:  +1 805-893-8553 googletalk: jodmail@gmail web: www.johnodonovan.net twitter:  anTusail skype: johnod79

"Our efforts to model and use trust on the Social Web as we do in the real world are only beginning. "

My research background is in Artificial Intelligence, with a specific focus on Trust Networks within Social Web Applications and other platforms for user-provided content.  Like many other areas of study relating to the web, ideas from various disciplines are combined in my work.  These include, but are not limited to: Data Mining, User Modeling, Data (Network) Visualisation, Personalisation & Recommendation, Natural Language Processing, A.I. and Psychology.