Patrick Herron

Research Analyst & Technologist

Patrick Herron is Research Analyst & Technologist for the Jenkins Chair in New Technologies and Society. Patrick's responsibilities in support of the Chair cover a broad range of research, development, and support roles. His current research and development interests focus around the automation of scientific discovery and text mining.

Prior to joining Duke Patrick completed his MS in Information Science at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Library and Information Science. While at UNC Patrick's main research focus was on automated classification and clustering of large heterogeneous consumer health web collections. Most of his research energies conentrated around the development of novel semantic representations of text collections and purely unsupervised learning for machine reading. His master's thesis on the adoption of text mining innovations for pharmacogenomics-based drug discovery is to be released at the start of 2008 in book form by VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller. While at UNC he worked as a web technologies consultant and also as research assistant for ibiblio.org and a developer for SAS.

In addition to working as a software developer and web designer for the last ten years Patrick has been steadily proliferating as a poet and multimedia artist. His website proximate.org was the first poetics-based web site to be included in the New Museum for Contemporary Art's Rhizome collection. Patrick is the author of several books of poetry including the forthcoming Be Somebody (Effing Press). Patrick has been innovating at the intersection of electronic media and poetry for nearly a decade and is the founder of the Carrboro Poetry Festival.

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