| Prof Foo Shou Boon, Schubert
Professor
Division of Information Studies
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Email: SFOO@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6513 8122, 6790-4621
Office: HSS-06-16E, SCI05-03 |
| Education |
- MBA University of Strathclyde 1989
- PhD University of Strathclyde 1985
- BSc(Hons) University of Strathclyde 1982
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| Biography |
| Professor Schubert Foo is Associate Dean(Graduate Studies), College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his B.Sc.(Hons), M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has served as Board Member of the National Library Board and the National Archives of Singapore Board. He has published more than 220 international conference and journal papers, book chapters and books. An independent research study on scholarly research authorship in top library and information science journals (based on ISI journal citation reports' impact factors) for the period 1967 to 2005 ranked him as the most contributed author in the top 20 journals and most contributed author in information science journals in the Asia-Pacific region. |
| Research Interests |
| Professor Schubert Foo's research areas cover multimedia technology, Internet technology, multilingual information retrieval, digital libraries, information literacy, knowledge management and social media innovations. |
| Current Projects |
- A Framework of Knowledge Mobilisation
- Digital Intelligence
- Information Literacy
| Selected Publications | - Foo, S., & Li, H. (2004). Chinese word segmentation and its effect on information retrieval. Information Processing & Management, (40), 161-190.
- Meyyappan, N., Foo, S., & Chowdhury, G.C. (2004). Design and evaluation of a task-based digital library for the academic community. Journal of Documentation, 60(4), 449-475.
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