1. Short bio… Eytan Adar (eadar@u.washington.edu) Xerox PARC HP Labs
Quantitative Content Analysis
Internet Ecologies Area
HP Labs
Information Dynamics Lab
Now a student at UW

2. Things I Study Information side-effects Networks Privacy Text mining
Blogs
How does information propagate?
Computer centric social nets
Web graphs, surfing behavior
Peer-to-peer
Bioinformatics
Privacy
Text mining

3. Things I Build Personalized/Personal IR Expert finding systems
Visualization systems
Zoomgraph
GUESS
Domain-specific embedded language (Gython)
Analysis/layout/visualization algorithms
Flexible properties on graph elements
Interactive interpreter
Fast application/applet prototyping

4. GUESS screenshot