Auteur: Robert J. Glushko

Robert J. Glushko is an Adjunct Full Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his PhD in Cognitive Psychology at UC San Diego in 1979, he spent about ten years working in corporate R&D, about ten years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and now has worked over ten years as an academic. His interests and expertise include information systems and service design, content management, electronic publishing, Internet business, and human factors in computing systems.Glushko founded or co-founded four companies, including Veo Systems in 1997, which pioneered the use of XML for electronic business before its 1999 acquisition by Commerce One. From 1999-2002 he headed Commerce One”s XML architecture and technical standards activities and was named an “Engineering Fellow” in 2000. In 2008 he was made an honorary lifetime member of the Cognitive Science Society “for outstanding, sustained contributions to the general advancement of cognitive science” and in 2011 he was named one of 50 UCSD Alumni Leaders by the UCSD Alumni Association to celebrate the university”s 50th Anniversary.