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About Gary Perlman
Gary Perlman is a consulting research scientist at the OCLC-Online Computer Li-
brary Center (www.oclc.org) where he works on user interfaces for bibliographic
and full-text retrieval. His research interests are in making information technology
more useful and usable for people.
He has also held research and academic positions at Bell Labs in Murray Hill,
New Jersey; Wang Institute of Graduate Studies; Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology; Carnegie-Mellon University; and The Ohio State University. Dr. Perlman's
Ph.D. is in experimental psychology from the University of California, San Diego.
He is the author of over 75 publications in the areas of mathematics education, sta-
tistical computing, hypertext, and user interface development. He has lectured and
consulted internationally since 1980.
He is best known in the HCI community as the director of the HCI Bibliogra-
phy (www.hcibib.org), a free-access online resource of over 20,000 records
searched hundreds of thousands of times each year.
A native of Montreal, Canada, Gary now lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife
and two sons.