[NOTE: All recipients were enrolled in a doctoral program at the time they received the Zipf Fellowship.]
2009: Hollie White
Doctoral student, School of Information and Library Science, University
of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill
Research: metadata, the evolution of technical services in academic and
law libraries, interdisciplinary knowledge organization, and scientific
organization of data
2008: Meredith Weiss
Doctoral student, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill
Research: higher education technology administration, organizational design, communications, and leadership; human computer interaction; user interface design; information system development and evaluation; and business intelligence systems
2007: Alvin K. Cheung
Doctoral student, Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: collection and processing of contextual information called ContextDB
2006: Abe Crystal
Doctoral student, Information and Library Science, UNC
Research: usability of information systems and how to improve information systems and interfaces
2005: Richard Swart
Vice President of Operations, Inteliture, a technology start-up in Utah, and Adjunct Professor, Utah State University (USU)
PhD, Business Information Systems and Education, USU
Research: semantic integration and the management and security of widely distributed and Web services enabled data stores
2004: Joan A. Smith
Chief Technology Strategist, Emory University Libraries
PhD, Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Research: integrating preservation functions into the Web server
2003: Terry Harrison
Project Manager, CACI, provides program management and information technology support services to civil agencies and commercial customers
PhD, Computer Science, Old Dominion University
Research: digital preservation, including developing Apache modules and protocol gateways
2002: Miles James Efron
Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Texas, Austin
PhD, Information and Library Science, UNC
Research: how statistical methods may be used to map information spaces to enable better access to information
2001: Terence Kelly
Researcher, Exascale Computing Lab, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA
PhD, Computer Science, University of Michigan
Research: optimal resource allocation in hierarchical caching systems, especially Web caching
2000: Rich Gazan
Assistant Professor, Information and Computer Science Department; Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawaii
PhD, Library and Information Science, UCLA
Research: information retrieval, database design, and the information industry, with a particular focus on integrating content from disparate sources
1999: Debra Ruffner Weiss
Information Commons Coordinator, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
PhD, School of Information and Library Science, UNC
Research: creation of large-scale information systems
1998: Maureen L. Mackenzie
Management Professor, Townsend School of Business, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York
PhD, Information and Computer Science, Long Island University
Research: information behaviors of line-managers
1997: John Chung-I Chuang
Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley
PhD, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Research: economies of scale in information dissemination over the Internet |
