Rush Building
The iSchool at Drexel
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875
Phone: 215.895.2474
Fax: 215.895.2494
istinfo@drexel.edu


Robert B.  Allen,  Ph.D.
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Title: Associate Professor
Office: Rush 416
Tel:+1 (215) 895-0460
Fax:+1 (215) 895-2494
Email: rba@drexel.edu
Alma Mater: University of California at San Diego

Dr. Allen has extensive research and professional experience on digital libraries and information retrieval. He developed the basic algorithms for recommender systems. Dr. Allen was the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and was Chair of the ACM Publications Board. He currently has a grant for developing a curriculum on the management of digital information and he is writing a comprehensive textbook: Information Science and Systems.
 
Courses Taught:
INFO101 - Introduction to Information Technology
INFO300 - Information Retrieval Systems
INFO310 - Human-Computer Interaction II
INFO360 - Language Processing
INFO624 - Information Retrieval Systems
INFO653 - Digital Libraries
INFO756 - Digital Preservation
INFO812 - Research Statistics I
 
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