Anselm Spoerri

Anselm
Spoerri

Associate Teaching Professor of Library and Information Science

Faculty

Office:
Annex A 203
PHONE:
848-932-7569
FAX:
732-932-6916
EMAIL:
aspoerri@rutgers.edu
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Anselm Spoerri is a Swiss-born information visualization researcher. He's developing whereRU, a visually rich and immersive way to explore and experience Rutgers, and has developed the visual tools searchCrystal and MetaCrystal. He founded i-Recall to make digital audio/video as easy to use as text. Spoerri is interested film, art, design, architecture. 


Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Information Visualization

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.A., Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Bedford College - University of London
B.Sc., Mathematics


Selected Publications

Yasseri, Taha and Spoerri, Anselm and Graham, Mark and Kertesz, Janos, The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Analysis (May 23, 2013). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration,


Awards & Recognitions

Teaching Award Department of Library and Information Science, SC&I, Rutgers University, 2010

Finalist, International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge jointly sponsored by NSF and Science, 2004

Teaching Award Department of Library and Information Science, SCILS, Rutgers University, 2003

Gold Apple Award at National Educational Film & Video Festival, one of the key U.S. festivals for special interest media, 1990

Grand Prix de la Ville de Mulhouse for the film IMAGO Meret Oppenheim 1990