Peter Pirolli Researcher, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

Peter Pirolli is a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He received his B.Sc. in Psychology and Anthropology from Trent University, Canada and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. From 1985 to 1994 he was a professor at the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Cognitive Science Institute. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education. He joined PARC in 1991 where he is engaged in studies of human-information interaction, information foraging theory, and the development of new user interface technologies.