Abraham Bernstein

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Abraham Bernstein (* 1969 ) is a professor at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Zurich (UZH). Before he accepted the chair there, he held a position as assistant professor at the Stern School of Business in New York . He is head of the Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group and head of the Department of Informatics . His main focus is on Semantic Web and Knowledge Discovery .

He is also director of the UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI) and co-initiator of the Manifesto for Digital Democracy .

Publications (selection)

  • Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes (1999)
  • Software infrastructure and design challenges for ubiquitous computing applications (2002)
  • Hexastore: sextuple indexing for semantic web data management (2008)
  • SPARQL basic graph pattern optimization using selectivity estimation (2008)
  • Fair and balanced ?: bias in bug-fix datasets (2009)
  • Improving performance, perceived usability, and aesthetics with culturally adaptive user interfaces (2011)

Web links

credentials

  1. dsi.uzh.ch
  2. digital-manifest.ch