Travis L. Bauer

Travis Bauer is a graduate student at Indiana University, where he will complete a PhD in computer science and cognitive science in May 2003. His research focuses on automatically extracting context descriptions of user interests from their document access patterns and applying this technology in autonomous, distributed, and multiagent systems. He codeveloped an open source Java library for building information retrieval systems. He received his BA in computer science from Jamestown College. He is a member of AAAI and the ACM. Contact him at the Computer Science Dept., Lindley Hall, Indiana Univ., 150 S. Wood-lawn Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405; trbauer@acm.org.