Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:48:42 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 16:55:26 GMT Content-length: 1948 Prof. Bruce Croft, (croft@cs.umass.edu)

W. BRUCE CROFT

Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
Department of Computer Science
Lederle Graduate Research Center, Box 34610
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003

Phone: (413) 545-0463, Fax: (413) 545-1249
Internet: croft@cs.umass.edu

W. Bruce Croft is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which he joined in 1979. In 1992, he became the Director of the NSF State/Industry/University Collaborative Research Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, which combines basic research with technology transfer to a variety of government and industry partners.

He received the B.Sc.(Honours) degree in 1973, and an M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1974 from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His Ph.D. in Computer Science was from the University of Cambridge, England in 1979.

His research interests are in formal models of retrieval for complex, text-based objects, text representation techniques, the design and implementation of text retrieval and routing systems, and user interfaces. He has published more than 100 articles on these subjects. This research is also being used in a number of operational retrieval systems.

Dr. Croft was Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval from 1987 to 1991. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems and an Associate Editor for Information Processing and Management. He has served on numerous program committees and has been involved in the organization of many workshops and conferences. He has received 2 awards from the information industry for his research contributions.