Donald J. Patterson (born April 11, 1972) is a professor of
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
at
Westmont College in
Santa Barbara, California
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. He is an expert on topics including cryptocurrency, health technology, and technology in the context of civilizational collapse.
Education
Dr. Patterson earned bachelor's and master's degrees from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
before spending four years in Japan and Sardinia as a naval operations officer. He earned a doctorate in computer science from the
University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.
Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...
and has been recognised for his work on collapse informatics and abstract object usage.
Research & Career
Based on his research, he co-founded more than four startup companies. He previously worked at the
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, where he earned tenure and served as director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction.
Most cited articles
*Kestenbaum B, Sampson JN, Rudser KD, Patterson DJ, Seliger SL, Young B, Sherrard DJ, and Andress DL. Serum phosphate levels and mortality risk among people with chronic kidney disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 16:520–528, 2005.
*Philipose M, Fishkin KP, Perkowitz M, Patterson DJ, Fox D, Kautz H, Hahnel D. Inferring activities from interactions with objects. IEEE pervasive computing. 2004 Oct;3(4):50-7.
*Liao L, Patterson DJ, Fox D, Kautz H. Learning and inferring transportation routines. Artificial intelligence. 2007 Apr 1;171(5-6):311-31.
*Patterson DJ, Liao L, Fox D, Kautz H. Inferring high-level behavior from low-level sensors. InInternational Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 2003 Oct 12 (pp. 73–89). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
*Patterson DJ, Fox D, Kautz H, Philipose M. Fine-grained activity recognition by aggregating abstract object usage. In Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'05) 2005 Oct 18 (pp. 44–51).
External links
Google Scholar
Donald J. Patterson
References
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Cornell University alumni
University of Washington alumni
Living people
1972 births