Prof. George W. Furnas is a professor at the School of Information of the University of Michigan University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...
He is one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing, in particular in vectorial semantics, invented in 1990 [1] by Scott Deerwester, Susan Dumais, George Furnas, Thomas Landauer, and Richard Harshman. ...
GeorgeFurnas is a professor and associate dean for academic strategy in the School of Information, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a professor in the Department of Psychology.
Furnas is a member of the prestigious CHI Academy, along with Professors Judy Olson and Gary Olson.
Furnas came to Michigan in July 1995 after 15 years in research at Bell Labs and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), where he was director of computer graphics and interactive media research in the Computer Science Research Department.
George is Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Information at the University of Michigan with additional appointments in Psychology and Computer Science.
George's BITPICT graphical rewrite system is well known novel contribution to diagrammatic reasoning, visual languages and visual programming communities.
George was also an early researcher in the areas of collaborative filtering,and graph visualization.
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