Bill PictureMy research area is "ubiquitous information" and for the last 17 years (!) I have worked at the intersection of HCI, information retrieval, and ubiquitous computing.

Some of my accomplishments in ubiquitous computing are the PARCTab, XLibris, and PlaceLab initiative. Between 1992-1995 I developed one of the first system infrastructures for location-aware mobile computers and developed many context-aware applications with colleagues at Xerox PARC.

I joined Google Research in November 2006.

I spent 4 years with Intel Research starting that "work-life" experience as Co-Director of the Seattle Lab. I also directed Intel's research in Ubiquitous Computing and was principal investigator (PI) in Intel's Digital Home Group. Prior to joining Intel I was manager of the Personal and Mobile Computing Group at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T's Bell Labs, and part of the team that developed Ubiquitous Computing at PARC.

I am a graduate of the Putney School (high school, class of 1977) a "progressive" school on a working farm where I learned that there are few things in life as bad as A.M. barn (waking at 5:30 AM to "muck out" the cow barn). I attended Columbia College, receiving a liberal arts degree, spent a number of years in the computer industry, and then went back to graduate school at Columbia University. In 1995 I received a Ph.D. (aka Piled Higher and Deeper) for studies in location and context-aware mobile computing. (My thesis defense was not as bad as A.M. barn). The research for my dissertation was carried out at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where I was an intern and visiting scientist between 1990-1995.

Bill Schilit
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News

  • Slides for my Tutorial on Context-Aware Communication, presented at Pervasive 2002 available in pdf and ppt

Recent Professional Service

  • Associate Editor-in-Chief, Computer Magazine, 2003-present
  • Member, Computer Society Publications Board, 2004-2006
  • Chair, Computer Society Magazine Operations Committee, 2004-2006
  • Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society, 2004-2006
  • Member, Steering Committee for Pervasive Magazine, 2005-2006
  • Member, Computer Society Audit Committee, 2004-2005
  • Program Chair, WMASH '04: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots, 2004.
  • Editorial Board, Computer Magazine, 1999-present
  • Technical Editor, IEEE Personal Communications (The Magazine of Nomadic Communications and Computing), IEEE Communications Society.
  • Program Committee , WWW 2003-2006
  • Program Committee Mobiquitous 2004, August 2004
  • Program Committee WMCSA 2004, December 2004.
  • Program Co-Chair WMASH 2004, October 2004,
  • Program Committee, ICDCS 2003, May 2003.
  • Program Committee, Ubicomp 2002, September 2002.
  • Program Committee, Pervasive 2002, August 2002.
  • Program Committee, WMCSA 2002 - 4th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, June 2002.
  • Proceedings Chair, UIST 2000 - 12th annual symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, November 5-8 2000, San Diego, CA.
  • Program Committee, Workshop on Software Engineering for Wearable and Pervasive Computing, June 5-6 2000, Limerick, Ireland.
  • Program Committee, ISWC - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October 16-18, 2000, Atlanta, GA.

Selected Publications:

Colleagues: Jon Rokne