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Department of Information Systems |
Alexander
Tuzhilin
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Research Interests |
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (Data Mining), Personalization Technologies and Customer Relationship Management |
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Education |
New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Ph.D. in
Computer Science, October 1989 |
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Regular Academic Positions |
Professor of Information Systems (2006 – present) Associate Professor of Information Systems (1996 – 2006) Assistant Professor of Information Systems (1989 – 1996) |
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Visiting Positions Industrial
Positions |
The Visiting Scientist, September 1997 – August 1998 Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Telecommunications, Visiting Scientist, March 1994 – August 1994 Consultant, April 1995 – December 1996 Information Builders, Inc.,
Systems Developer, September 1985 – August 1987 |
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Major Services Performed at the Grant Support Patents |
Ph.D. Program Coordinator for the IS Department (2000 – 2001, 2003 - ) Director of the Master of Science in Information
Systems Program (joint program between Computer Science and the Faculty Council Member of the NSF Grant ``Knowledge Discovery in Temporal Databases,'' Principal Investigator, 1994 – 1997 Center for Advanced Technologies, NYU, 1:1Pro Project, 1998 Center
for Research in Information Systems, Center for Information Intensive Organizations, NYU, Personalization Technologies for 1:1 Marketing Applications, 1999. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter “The ARTE Project”, 2000 – 2001. Pfizer, Inc., Pharmaceutical Applications of Data Mining, 2002.
“System and Method for Dynamic Profiling of Users in One-to-One Applications.” US Patent #6,236,978. “System and Method for Dynamic Profiling of Users in One-to-One Applications and for Validating User Rules.” US Patent #6,871,186. “Method for Determining Actionable Patterns in a Database.” US Patent #6,292,797. “Method and Apparatus for Monitor, Search and Notification in a Network.” Patent pending. “System,
process and software arrangement for providing multidimensional
recommendations/suggestions.” Patent pending. |
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Professional Activities |
Editorial Activities: Member of the Editorial Board of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal (1997 – present) Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2002 – present) Member of the Editorial Board of the Electronic Commerce Research Journal (2000 - present) Associate Editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing (2000 – present) Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (1999 - 2002) Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering “Customer Relationship Management: Data Mining Meets Marketing” (scheduled publication date: April 2007) Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue of the Informs Journal on Computing on Mining Web-based Data for e-Business Applications, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2003. Guest Editor of the special issue of the Decision Support Systems journal on knowledge discovery and its applications to business. Vol. 21, 1997. Member
of the Editorial Advisory Board of and wrote a foreword to the Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and
Mining, Organizing Committee Member Annual Meeting of the Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Data Mining Cluster Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining, Program Committee Vice-Chair, IEEE International Conference
on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics
(SOLI), Advisory Board Member,
International Workshop on
Customer Relationship Management: Data Mining Meets Marketing, Workshop Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining, Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference
on Data Mining, Best Paper Awards Committee Chair, ACM SIGKDD International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Panels Chair,
Program Committee Member (in chronological order): International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML), International Conference on Information Systems
(ICIS), Design Sciences Track, Workshop on Information Technologies and
Systems (WITS), Fifth Workshop on e-Business
(WEB 2006), Fourth AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques
in Web Personalization, July, KDD workshop on Data Mining For Business
Applications, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data
Mining, Workshop on Information Technologies and
Systems (WITS), Third IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques
in Web Personalization, August 2005, Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Workshop on Information Technologies and
Systems (WITS), SIGMOD Workshop
on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, AAAI Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining, IJCAI-03 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web
Personalization, NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security
Informatics, IEEE International Conference on Data Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Ninth International Symposium on Temporal Representation
and Reasoning (TIME), July, 2002. 27th International Conference on Very Large Databases, Seventh International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining, International Workshop on Bioinformatics in Data Mining (BIOKDD 2001),
Eight International Symposium on Temporal Representation
and Reasoning (TIME), 4th International Conference on Telecommunications and
Electronic Commerce (ICTEC), IJCAI-01 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web
Personalization, First International Workshop on Databases, Documents,
and Information Fusion, 3rd International Conference on Telecommunications and
Electronic Commerce (ICTEC), International Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and
Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Sixth International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, WebKDD’2000
Workshop, WebKDD’99
Workshop, SIGMOD'99 Data Mining Workshop, 1st International Workshop on Evolution and
Change in Data Management, 16th
International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'98), Fourth
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 15th
International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'97), SIGMOD'97 Data
Mining Workshop, NSF funding panel, 1997. Third
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Second
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, First
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, International
Workshop on Temporal Databases, Fifth Workshop on
Information Technologies and Systems, International
Workshop on Temporal Reasoning in Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, AAAI Workshop on
Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Invited Presentations: Academic: Numerous presentations including those at MIT, Wharton, UCLA, Columbia, NYU, University of Minnesota, University of Maryland (College Park), University of Toronto, University of Florida (Gainesville), University of Texas at Dallas, University of Washington, Pennsylvania State, NJIT, Stevens Institute of Technology, Sorbonne, Moscow State University, Stockholm University and Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Politecnico di Bari (Italy), and others. Participation/Presentation in the Dagstuhl Seminars: -- Data Mining: The Next Generation, July 2004. -- Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, June 1997. Participation in the “Architecture of On Demand Business
Industrial (related to my research): Bell Laboratories (Lucent), IBM Watson Research Center, Telecordia, Oracle, Computer Associates, Doubleclick, Morgan Stanley, Barnes&Noble.com, Merck, CuraGen, Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, CCS (Japan) Ad Hoc Reviewing: -- ACM Transactions on Database Systems -- ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies -- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering -- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering -- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics -- IEEE Computer -- Management Science -- Operations Research -- Information Systems Research -- Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery -- Journal of Intelligent Information Systems -- Information Systems -- Artificial Intelligence Journal -- INFORMS Journal on Computing -- Decision Support Systems Journal -- Annals of Operations Research -- Machine Learning Journal -- International Journal of Electronic Commerce -- Information Processing Letters -- Journal of Software Practice and Experience -- NSF Grant Proposals -- SIGMOD, VLDB, ECDT, ICDE, KDD, ICDM, ER Conferences. |
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Ph.D. Student Advising |
Dissertation
Committee Chair (chronological
order): - - Gedas Adomavicius (CS Department, NYU). Thesis
title: “Expert-Driven Validation of Set-Based Data Mining Results,” 2002. G.
Adomavicius is currently an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the
Carlson School of Management,
- Balaji Padmanabhan,
Thesis title: “Discovery of Unexpected Patterns in Data Mining Applications,”
1999. B. Padmanabhan is currently an Assistant Professor at the - P. Balasubramanian, Thesis title: “Query-Driven
Simulation for Decision Support,''
1995. P. Balasubramanian is currently
an Associate Professor at Dissertation
Committee Member: - Raghav Madhavan, “Design and Evaluation of Genetic Regression Methods for Knowledge Discovery,” 1999. - Don Berndt, “Designing a Knowledge Discovery Tool: The AX System," 1997. - Nicky Ranganathan, “Constraint-Based Environments for Model Formulation and Analysis,'' 1994 - Hardeep Johar, “Coordination and Control in Distributed Work: Towards Intelligent Decision Support”, 1994. - Shlomo Hershkop (Computer Science Department, - Sigal Sahar (Computer Science Department, - Wenke Lee (Computer Science Department, - Andreas Prodromidis (Computer Science Department, - Mauricio Hernandez (Computer Science Department, - Philip Chan (Computer Science Department, |
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Courses Taught at NYU Awards |
- Advanced Technologies for Business Applications (MBA) - Customer Relationship Management Systems (MBA) - Database Management Systems (undergraduate and MBA) - Fundamentals of Computer Systems (undergraduate) - Technical Foundations of Information Systems (Ph.D.) - Computer-Based Systems for Management Support (undergraduate core) - Ph.D. Seminars Outstanding Service Award from the Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) of the IEEE Computer Society, 2003 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship from NYU, September 1988 Fellowship
from the Mathematics Award for Excellence from NYU, June 1980 |
List of Publications
Journal Publications (in chronological order)
1. “Segmenting Customers from Population to Individuals: Does 1-to-1 Keep your Customers Forever?” To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (with T. Jiang).
2. “Managing
and Analyzing Large Collections of Data Mining Models.” To appear in Communications of the ACM (with
3. “Validation Sequence Optimization: A Theoretical Approach.” To appear in the INFORMS Journal on Computing (with G. Adomavicius).
4. “On Characterization and Discovery of Minimal Unexpected Patterns in Rule Discovery.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 18(2), February 2006 (with B. Padmanabhan).
5. “Personalization Technologies: A Process-Oriented Perspective.” Communications of the ACM, 48(1), October 2005 (with G. Adomavicius).
6. “Towards the Next Generation of Recommender Systems: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Possible Extensions.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 17(6), June 2005, (with G. Adomavicius).
7. “Incorporating Contextual Information in Recommender Systems Using a Multidimensional Approach”. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 23(1), January 2005 (with G. Adomavicius, R. Sankaranarayanan and S. Sen).
8. “On the Use of Optimization for Data Mining: Theoretical Interactions and eCRM Opportunities,” Management Science, 49(10), October 2003 (with B. Padmanabhan).
9. “e-Butler: An Architecture of a Customer-Centric Personalization System,” International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, vol. 2, no 3, October 2002 (with G. Adomavicius).
10. “Knowledge Refinement Based on the Discovery of Unexpected Patterns in Data Mining”. Decision Support Systems, vol. 33, no. 3, July 2002 (with B. Padmanabhan).
11. “Using Data Mining Methods to Build Customer Profiles.” IEEE Computer; vol. 34, no. 2, February 2001 (with G. Adomavicius).
12. “Expert-Driven Validation of Rule-Based User Models in Personalization Applications.” Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal. vol. 5, no 1/2, Special Issue on E-commerce and Data Mining, January 2001 (with G. Adomavicius).
13. “Unexpectedness as a Measure of Interestingness in Knowledge Discovery.” Decision Support Systems, (27)3 (1999) pp. 303-318 (with B. Padmanabhan).
14. “Making Sense of Marketing Data: Some MIS Perspectives on the Analysis of Large Databases,” Journal of Market-Focused Management (with S. Sen), vol. 3, p. 91–111, 1998.
15. “On the Analysis of Web Site Usage Data: How Much Can We Learn About the Consumer from Web Logfiles?” European Journal of Marketing, vol 32, no. 7, 1998 (Special Issue on Marketing in Cyberspace) (with S. Sen, B. Padmanabhan, N. White, R. Stein).
16. “Providing Information Systems Support for Simulations Using the Cassandra+ System.” Annals of Operations Research, vol. 72, 1997 (with P. Balasubramanian).
17. “What Makes Patterns Interesting in Knowledge Discovery Systems.” IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 8, no. 6, December 1996 (with Avi Silberschatz).
18. “On Data Representation and Use in a Temporal Relational DBMS''. Information Systems Research vol. 7, no. 3, September 1996 (with J. Clifford and A. Croker).
19. “Modeling Data-Intensive Reactive Systems with Relational Transition Systems.'' Acta Informatica, vol.33, no.3, May 1996 (with Z. Kedem).
20. “Using Query Driven Simulations for Querying Outcomes of Business Processes.” Decision Support Systems, vol. 16, 1996 (with P. Balasubramanian).
21. “On Periodicity in Temporal Databases.” Information Systems, vol. 20, no. 8, December 1995 (with J. Clifford).
22. “Templar: A Knowledge-Based Language for Software Specifications Using Temporal Logic.” ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 13, no. 3, July 1995.
23. “Extending Temporal Logic to Support High-Level Simulations.” ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, vol. 5, no. 2, 1995.
24. “On Completeness of Historical Relational Query Languages.” ACM Transactions on Database Systems, vol. 19, no. 1, March 1994 (with James Clifford and Albert Croker)
25. “Querying Datalog Programs with Temporal Logic.” Acta Informatica, vol. 30, Dec. 1993.
26. “Abstract-Driven Pattern Discovery in Databases.” IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 5, no. 6, December 1993 (with V. Dhar).
27. “SimTL: A Simulation Language Based on Temporal Logic.” Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation, vol. 9, no. 2, 1992.
Articles in
Non-refereed Journals and Magazines
28. “Automation’s Next Wave.” Stern Business, March 2005.
Submitted Articles
29. “RQL:
A Query Language for Customizing Recommendations”. Under review in the INFORMS Information Systems Research
Journal (with G. Adomavicius and R. Zheng).
30. “Building
and Querying Large Modelbases”, ICIS
Conference (with B. Liu and J. Hu).
In Preparation
31. “Improving Personalization Solutions through Optimal Segmentation of Customer Bases” (with T. Jiang).
32. “e-Butlers: From Recommendations to Interactions – A Research Agenda” (with G. Adomavicius and S. Sen).
33. “Cardinality Predicates and Their Use in Expert-Driven Validations” (with G. Adomavicius).
Books
34. Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (edited with Jude Shavlik and Xindong Wu), November 2003.
35. Recent Advances in Temporal Databases. Springer, September 1995 (edited with James Clifford).
Book Chapters
36. “On
Subjective Methods of Knowledge Evaluations in Data Mining.” In Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery.
37. “Minimum
Description Length Principle.” In Handbook
of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
38. “Finding Unexpected Patterns in Data.” In Data Retrieval and Data Mining , T. Y. Lin and N. Cercone (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002 (with B. Padmanabhan).
39. “Discovering
Unexpected Patterns in Temporal Data Using Temporal Logic.” In Temporal Databases -- Research and Practice.
O. Etzion,
40. “On Completeness of Languages for the Grouped and Ungrouped Historical Data Models.” In Temporal Databases. A. Tansel, J. Clifford, S. Gadia, S. Jajodia, A. Segev, and R. Snodgrass (eds.), Benjamin/Cummings, 1993 (with J. Clifford and A. Croker).
41. “Application of Temporal Databases to Knowledge-Based Simulations.” In Temporal Databases. A. Tansel, J. Clifford, S. Gadia, S. Jajodia, A. Segev, and R. Snodgrass (eds.), Benjamin/Cummings, 1993.
Major Refereed
Conference Proceedings (in chronological order)
(acceptance rates between 7% and 35%; papers with acceptance rates below 15% highlighted)
42. “Mining
Actionable Patterns by Role Models”. IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering, April 2006 (with K. Wang and
Y. Jiang). (acceptance rate 89/456 = 19.5%)
43. “Mining
Actions that Respond to Patterns.” IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining. November 2005 (with K. Wang, A. Fu
and Y. Jiang) [short paper].
44. “Context-Aware Recommender Systems”, 14th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), December 2004 (with G. Adomavicius, R. Sankaranarayanan and S. Sen).
45. “Divide and Prosper: Comparing Models of Customer Behavior from Populations to Individuals”, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Nov. 2004 (with T. Jiang) [short paper].
46. “On the Discovery of Significant Statistical Quantitative Rules”. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2004 (with B. Padmanabhan and H. Zhang) (acceptance rate 40/337 = 12%)
47. “Querying Multiple Sets of Discovered Rules,” ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining, July 2002 (with
48. “Handling Very Large Numbers of Association Rules in the Analysis of Microarray Data,” ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, July 2002 (with Gedas Adomavicius) (acceptance rate 44/307 = 14%).
49. “Optimizing
Sequences of Validation Operators in Data Mining Applications”, 12th
Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), December 2002,
50. “Multidimensional Recommender Systems: A Data Warehousing Approach.” In Proceedings of the WECOM 2001 Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2232, pp. 180 – 192, Springer-Verlag, 2001 (with G. Adomavicius).
51. “Small is Beautiful: Discovering the Minimal Set of Unexpected Patterns.” ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, March 2000 (with B. Padmanabhan). (acceptance rate 26/248 = 10%).
52. “User Profiling in Personalization Applications through Rule Discovery and Validation.” In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 1999 (with G. Adomavicius) [short paper].
53. “A Belief-Driven Method for Discovering Unexpected Patterns.” In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 1998 (with B. Padmanabhan). (acceptance rate 18/250 = 7%).
54. “Discovery of Actionable Patterns in Databases: The Action Hierarchy Approach.'' In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 1997 (with G. Adomavicius) [short paper].
55. “Discovering Unexpected Rules in Data Mining Applications.'' In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), 1997 (with B. Padmanabhan).
56. “Pattern Discovery in Temporal Databases: A Temporal Logic Approach.” In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 1996 (with B. Padmanabhan) [short paper].
57. “On Subjective Measures of Interestingness in Knowledge Discovery.” In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 1995 (with A. Silberschatz) [short paper].
58. “A
Temporal Relational Algebra as a Basis for Temporal Relational Completeness.''
In Proceedings of the 16th International
Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
59. “Relational
Database Behavior: Utilizing Relational Discrete Event Systems and Models.” In Proceedings of 8th ACM Symposium on
Principles of Database Systems,
60. “Querying
and Controlling the Future Behavior of Complex Objects.” In Proceedings of IEEE Fifth International
Conference on Data Engineering,
61. “A Semantic Approach to Correctness of Concurrent Transaction Executions.'' In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, March 1985 (with P. Spirakis).
Other Refereed
Publications
62. “Incorporating Context into Recommender Systems Using Multidimensional Rating Estimation Methods.” In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces, October 2005 (with G. Adomavicius).
63. “Analyzing Microarray Data Using Association Rules”, Proceedings of the ASDD Symposium, July 2005 (with G. Adomavicius).
64. “Extending Recommender Systems: A Multidimensional Approach”, Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, August 2001 (with G. Adomavicius).
65. “Integrating User Behavior and Collaborative Methods in Recommender Systems.” On-Line Proceedings of the CHI Workshop on Recommender Systems, May 1999 (with G. Adomavicius).
66. “Pattern Discovery in Temporal Databases: Some recent Results,” Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time Series Analysis, May 1998.
67. “A Pattern Discovery Algebra.” In Proceedings of the ACM-SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, May 1997.
68. “User-Assisted Knowledge Discovery: How Much Should the User be Involved?” In Proceedings of the ACM-SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, May 1996 (with A. Silberschatz).
69. “On
Temporal Grouping.” In Proceedings of
the International Workshop on Temporal Databases, September 1995,
70. “Grouped and Ungrouped Historical Data Models: Expressive Power and Completeness.” In Proceedings of the International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, June, 1993 (with James Clifford and Albert Croker).
71. “Comparison
of Approaches for Modeling Dynamics of Databases.'' In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Foundations of Models
and Languages for Data and Objects: Modeling Database Dynamics,
72. “Temporal
Logic as a Simulation Language.” In Proceedings
of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation,
73. “Production
System Approach to Predicting and Controlling Future Behavior of Complex
Systems.” In Proceedings of IEEE
International Computer Science Conference; Artificial Intelligence: Theory and
Applications,
Working Papers
74. “The e-Butler service, or has the age of electronic personal decision making assistants arrived?” Working paper IS-98-16, Center for Research on Information Systems, Stern School of Business, NYU, 1998.
75. “A
Belief-Driven Discovery Framework based on Data Monitoring and Triggering.”
Working Paper IS-96-26,
76. “A
Query-Driven Approach to Executable Specifications.” Technical Report 94D015,
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications,
77. “On
the Expressive Power of Infinite Temporal Databases.” Working Paper IS-92-16,
78. “Temporally
Active Databases := Active Databases + Time.” Working Paper IS-91-43,
79. ``Validating
Requirements Specifications Stated in Knowledge Representation Language
Templar.'' Working Paper IS-91-28,
Significant Articles
in Popular Press about my Work
80. “A
method of collecting consumer data renews questions about patents on business
practices,” by Sabra Chartrand, New York Times,
81. “Consumer
profiling: A battle over patents,” International Herald Tribune;
overview of the Chartrand’s NYT article,
82. “Stop
the Press! A Patent on One to One?” by Don Peppers, Inside 1to1;