Personal Information

Full Name

Paul Resnick

email address

presnick@umich.edu

Personal Home Page

http://www.si.umich.edu/%7Epresnick/

Phone Number

(734) 647-9458

Address

University of Michigan
School of Information
3210 SI North
1075 Beal Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112

Personal Information

Paul Resnick is a professor in the School of Information and coordinator of the Community Information Corps. Previously he worked as a researcher at AT&T Labs and AT&T Bell Labs, and as an assistant professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Professor Resnick's research focuses on SocioTechnical Capital, productive social relations that are enabled by the ongoing use of information and communication technology. His current projects include analyzing and designing reputation systems that help maintain trust among strangers on-line, and using photo-directories and email lists to increase social ties in neighborhoods.

Resnick was a pioneer in the field of recommender systems (sometimes called collaborative filtering or social filtering). Recommender systems guide people to interesting materials based on recommendations from other people. He chaired the PICS Interest Group at MIT's World Wide Web Consortium and was one of the main authors of the PICS technical specifications. PICS, the Platform for Internet Content Selection, provides a common infrastructure for the creation of labeling systems, and filtering software based on those labels.

First name

Paul

Last name

Resnick

Department

Professor of the School of Information

History

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