D. Turnbull

Don Turnbull is a software research and development consultant specializing in search systems (information seeking and retrieval), analytics, UX design as well as intellectual property creation and analysis.

Previously, Don was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on information discovery, the semantic web, information architecture and knowledge management systems. Don received his doctorate from the University of Toronto for researching Knowledge Discovery (Data Mining) for Informetric and Behavioral Models of Web Use. He is the author of numerous academic papers and presentations, as well as the co-author of the book "Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web".

Don was also a principal at Outride, Inc., a Xerox PARC spin-off that developed personalized information retrieval applications and intellectual property related to mobile and ecommerce search, that was acquired by Google. In the nascent days of the World Wide Web, Don was the Lead Technical Architect at IBM Interactive Multimedia, working on the World Book/IBM Multimedia Encyclopedia and other large-scale Web development projects.