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A founder of Knowledge Analysis Technologies (now Pearson's
Knowledge Technologies group), Thomas Landauer served as its
president from 1998-2004. Thomas manages Knowledge Technologies'
creation of innovative technological products and services for Pearson's
educational testing and publishing units as well as externally funded
research and development projects. The latter include software systems
for employment, training, intelligence and information retrieval.
Clients include the armed forces, the U.S. Department of Education,
intelligence agencies and private sector education companies. Thomas's
team consists of cognitive and computer scientists, linguists and
mathematical psychologists.
He is a named inventor on five patents for applications of Latent
Semantic Analysis, the mathematical/scientific approach on which the KAT
engine is based. Prior to founding Knowledge Analysis Technologies,
Thomas was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories and
its successor, Bellcore for 25 years. There he was director of
Cognitive Science Research, a group of computer scientists, linguists
and cognitive psychologists who conducted research on computer and
communication-based tools for enhancing human learning and performance.
The Cognitive Research Group's work led to the theory, development and
implementation of Latent Semantic Analysis.
He has been a faculty member at Harvard University, Dartmouth College,
Stanford University and Princeton University. Since 1994, Thomas has
been a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a fellow
in the Institute of Cognitive Science.
An internationally recognized leader in applied cognitive science
research, he has published more than 110 articles and authored or edited
four books, including The Handbook of Human-Computer
Interaction and The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness,
Usability and Productivity, which received the Association of
American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1994.
Thomas holds a doctorate of philosophy from Harvard University.
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