Steve is a researcher at IBM Almaden Research. His research interests range from social & collaboration software to web data mining. His current and past projects include:

• Work Marketplace - crowdsourcing meets enterprise
• Social Analytics - combining social software with machine learning
• Contact Central - cross-application social address book
• Team Analytics - visualizations of a group of people
• Bluemail - web 2.0 platform for email research
• Fringe - automatically generated profiles and social network for the enterprise
• WebFountain - full-scale web crawl and text analytics, to find business value from the web
• Grand Central Station - web crawler and platform for text analytics