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Dr. Yigal Arens is Director of the Intelligent Systems Division of the University of Southern California's Information Science Institute, located in Marina del Rey, California, USA, Co-director of DGRC, the USC/Columbia University Digital Government Research Center and Research Professor at USCÕs Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering.
Dr. Arens received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His primary research interests have been digital government, information integration, planning in the domain of information servers, knowledge representation, and human-machine communication.
In 1983, he joined the faculty of the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. He joined USC's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) in 1987, where he first worked on the Integrated Interfaces project, a multimedia presentation design system combining text, tables, maps, and other graphics. For almost ten years he headed the SIMS (Single Interface to Multiple Sources) research group specializing in integration of heterogeneous databases and other information sources.
Dr. Arens has been Director of the Intelligent Systems Division, one of the largest Artificial Intelligence research labs in the US, since 1999. Also since 1999, he has been Co-Director of the DGRC. In 2002, Dr. Arens joined the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering as Research Professor. In 2003, Dr. Arens founded USCÕs Center for Research on Unexpected Events (CRUE), which he headed for its first year.
In 1999, together with two colleagues from ISI, Dr. Arens founded Fetch Technologies, a company that specializes in extracting data from Web sites.
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