Searching the World Wide Web – Finding the Right Information the First Time

Ravi Shankar has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. He is currently a senior professor with the Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Florida Atlantic University. His current research interests are on K-12 education, engineering learning theories, and education data mining. He has been well funded by the high tech industry over the years. He has 7 US patents, of which 3 have been commercialized by the university. He has published earlier work on the use of the semantic web for medical applications at another conference. This work is part of an ongoing teaching and research project that leverages our collaborative teaching in smart phone app development. We plan to leverage this in generalizing the course offering so other interdisciplinary groups’ efforts are facilitated.