Thomas Landauer
Encyclopedia
Dr. Thomas K. Landauer is a professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Colorado
.
He was one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis
, and in 1995 published a controversial analysis of the productivity paradox
of information technology.
He is currently a Vice President at Pearson Education
. He is also Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of Colorado. Previously he was the manager of an information science
and human-computer interaction research group at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore.
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
.
He was one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis
Latent semantic analysis
Latent semantic analysis is a technique in natural language processing, in particular in vectorial semantics, of analyzing relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain by producing a set of concepts related to the documents and terms. LSA assumes that words that are close...
, and in 1995 published a controversial analysis of the productivity paradox
Productivity paradox
The productivity paradox was analyzed and popularized in a widely-cited article by Erik Brynjolfsson, which noted the apparent contradiction between the remarkable advances in computer power and the relatively slow growth of productivity at the level of the whole economy, individual firms and many...
of information technology.
He is currently a Vice President at Pearson Education
Pearson Education
Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools...
. He is also Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of Colorado. Previously he was the manager of an information science
Information science
-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...
and human-computer interaction research group at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore.
External links
- Department of Psychology Research Page and Contact Page at University of Colorado
- Home page at Pearson
Further reading
- Landauer, T.K. (1995). The trouble with computers: Usefulness, usability and productivity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press