Prof. Alan Porter delievered a lecture on the topic of lt; echnology Mining and its effective Research Tools> . Alan L. Porter’s major concentration is technology forecasting and assessment. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech (1967) and a PhD in Engineering Psychology from UCLA (1972).
He served on the University of Washington faculty through 1974. In 1975 he joined the School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he now serves as Professor Emeritus. He also is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and co-directs the Technology Policy and Assessment Center at Georgia Tech.Current interests focus on computer-aided exploration of information in electronic Science & Technology databases. This "text mining" is used to profile research domains, determine competitor emphases, and generate "innovation indicators." Rapid profiling of thousands of abstract records on R&D activity can be performed in one day.
