Jay Budzik

Author: Jay Budzik

Jay Budzik, co-inventor of Intellext's core product, Watson, leads the research and development efforts of the company. Prior to founding Intellext, he was an active researcher in computer science for the last seven years at Northwestern University's Intelligent Information Laboratory, where he led a wide array of research projects aimed at facilitating access to information.  Budzik's other projects included an intelligent question and answering system for delegates at the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago in 1996, and the Flytrap system, which automatically synthesizes new music experiences for a group based on observed preferences. He is widely published on topics ranging from groupware to intelligent agents. One Budzik paper, "User Interactions with Everyday Applications as Context for Just-in-time Information Access", is cited frequently by top international researchers and industry leaders. Budzik has delivered demonstrations and lectures to audiences ranging from international research groups to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, including invited talks at Ford Motor Company, the MIT Media Lab, the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, and the American Society for Information Science. Articles on Budzik's research have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Chicago Sun-Times, WGN-TV and L'Ordinateur Individuel.

Budzik earned a B.S. with both general honors and honors in computer science from The College of The University of Chicago, and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University.

Publications

Publication period start: 2004
Number of co-authors: 10

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Shannon Bradshaw
3
Xiaobin Fu
3
Kristian J. Hammond
9

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Larry Birnbaum
17
David A. Shamma
22
Kristian J. Hammond
33

Publications

Budzik, Jay, Bradshaw, Shannon, Fu, Xiaobin, Hammond, Kristian J. (2002): Supporting on-line resource discovery in the context of ongoing tasks with proactive softw. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 56 (1) pp. 47-74.

Franklin, David, Budzik, Jay, Hammond, Kristian J. (2002): Plan-based interfaces: keeping track of user tasks and acting to cooperate. In: Gil, Yolanda, Leake, David (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2002 January 13-16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA. pp. 79-86. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502716.502731

Crossen, Andrew, Budzik, Jay, Hammond, Kristian J. (2002): Flytrap: intelligent group music recommendation. In: Gil, Yolanda, Leake, David (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2002 January 13-16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA. pp. 184-185. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502716.502748

Krema, Marko, Birnbaum, Larry, Budzik, Jay, Hammond, Kristian J. (2002): Themometers and themostats: characterizing and controlling thematic attributes of informat. In: Gil, Yolanda, Leake, David (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2002 January 13-16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA. pp. 196-197. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502716.502754

Crossen, Andrew, Budzik, Jay, Warner, Mason, Birnbaum, Larry, Hammond, Kristian J. (2001): XLibris: An Automated Library Research Assistant. In: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2001 January 14-17, 2001, Sanata Fe, New Mexico, USA. pp. 49-52. https://acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/359784/p49-crossen/p49-crossen.pdf

Budzik, Jay, Hammond, Kristian J. (2000): User Interactions with Everyday Applications as Context for Just-in-Time Information Acces. In: Lieberman, Henry (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2000 January 9-12, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. pp. 44-51. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/325737/p44-budzik/p44-budzik.pdf

Fu, Xiaobin, Budzik, Jay, Hammond, Kristian J. (2000): Mining Navigation History for Recommendation. In: Lieberman, Henry (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2000 January 9-12, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. pp. 106-112. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/325737/p106-fu/p106-fu.pdf

Budzik, Jay, Bradshaw, Shannon, Fu, Xiaobin, Hammond, Kristian J. (2002): Clustering for opportunistic communication. In: Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2002, . pp. 726-735. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/511446.511541

Shamma, David A., Owsley, Sara, Hammond, Kristian J., Bradshaw, Shannon, Budzik, Jay (2004): Network arts: exposing cultural reality. In: Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on the World Wide Web , 2004, . pp. 41-47. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1013367.1013375