Bill Tomlinson

About Bill Tomlinson

Bill Tomlinson is Chief Technology Officer at RightSide AI. Location: Irvine, California, United States.

Bill Tomlinson is a Professor of Informatics and Education at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He holds an adjunct professorship at Victoria University of Wellington. He studies the fields of artificial intelligence, sustainable information technology and computing within limits. His book Greening through IT (MIT Press, 2010) examines the ways in which information technology can help people think and act on the broad scales of time, space, and complexity necessary for us to address the world's current environmental issues. In addition, he has authored more than 100 publications across a range of journals, conferences, and other venues in computing, the learning sciences, and the law. His work has been reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Wired.com, Scientific American Frontiers, CNN, and the BBC. In 2007, he received an NSF CAREER award, and in 2008 he was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow. In 2014, he was named to the EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors, joining the Sustainable and Healthy Communities subcommittee. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT.

Skills

• Research
• Higher Education
• University Teaching

Additional experience

• Professor

  UC Irvine

  Started January 2003

Education

• MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Master of Fine Arts (MFA), California Institute of the Arts