John S. Erickson

John has spent over three decades studying the unique social, legal, and technical problems that arise when managing and disseminating information in the digital environment. Currently Director of Research Operations at the Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) and Deputy Director of the Web Science Research Center of the Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), John coordinates, contributes, and teaches. Prior to joining RPI John was a principal investigator at Hewlett-Packard Labs focusing on policy-based management and personalization of distributed, heterogeneous digital object repositories, content processing architectures and collaboration systems. Before joining HPLabs John was an entrepreneur, creating the first Web-based service to fully automate the complex copyright permissions process for a variety of media types, and the first digital rights management (DRM) technology to facilitate dialog and metadata exchange between content creators and users.

See also:

• RPIrates: The RPI R Users Group
• The Data INCITE Projects Gallery
• Accessing the IDEA Cluster
• The Rensselaer IDEA github (public)
• The Data INCITE Lab github (RPI)
• Bennett, Kristin P.; Erickson, John S.; Svirsky, Amy; and Seddon, Josephine C. (2022) "A Mathematics Pipeline to Student Success in Data Analytics through Course-Based Undergraduate Research," The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 19 : No. 3 , Article 5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1573