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Professor's computer search work turns heads

By Greg Kline
Tuesday July 5, 2005

by John Dixon

UI computer science Professor ChengXiang Zhai displays a computer monitor running user-centered adaptive information retrieval software he developed.

We're drowning in data, whether it's an average Web user, a tech support person trying to manage the voluminous flow of questions from users, or a biologist working with new information about millions of genes.

No way we can look at all of it and put it together in the myriad ways that are meaningful and useful. We need help.

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