This week we take a look at the academic careers of our advisors. Most people are familiar with resumes, the document that lists a person's education, experience and previous employers. However, in academia, the document that is used to list a person's life work and accomplishments is the curriculum vitae (CV). For those of you who are reading this blog that are not familiar with the CV, the first thing that may seem strange to you is its length. While we are often told to keep our resumes to 2 pages and should only consider a 3rd page if absolutely necessary, a CV has no maximum length requirement. My advisor, Mary Beth Rosson, has one of those rather extensive CV's and for good reasons. Dr. Rosson is a frequent presenter at a variety of conferences on topics such as Human Computer Interaction, Human Centric Computing, and Design of Interactive Systems. The conferences that you may frequently see her the ones held by the ACM or IEEE organizations.
When it comes to publications the list in the CV is quite extensive. Dr. Rosson has been writing journal articles and books for many years. Although her work is found mostly in journals such as the Communications of the ACM, IEEE Interactions on Software Interaction and Human-Computer Interaction; articles have also been published in Educational Technology & Society and Learning Technology. Dr. Rosson's interest in Education Technology as it relates to IST is one of the reasons I am excited to have the opportunity to work with her over the next few years.
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