Patrick Herron

Research Analyst & Technologist

Patrick Herron is Research Analyst & Technologist for the Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society. Patrick's responsibilities in support of the Chair cover a broad range of research, development, and support roles. His current research focuses upon text mining-based innovation analyses with a particular interest in the impact of collaboration on global nanotechnology diffusion, S&T policy, and global value chains. Patrick's recent book on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, Text Mining for Genomics-based Drug Discovery (VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller), was published in 2008.

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 concentrated around the development of novel semantic representations of text collections and purely unsupervised learning for machine reading. While at UNC he worked as a web technologies consultant and also as research assistant for ibiblio.org and a developer for SAS, where he authored the global web information architecture schema.

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 recently-released 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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