John Tolva is the Senior Program Manager for Cultural Strategy and Programs for Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs at the Center for IBM Solution Innovation in Chicago. This position combines a knowledge of culture and the humanities with an understanding of IBM’s newest technologies and related business unit needs, markets and objectives.

John holds a Masters in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in English Literature from Washington University. Mr. Tolva is on the editorial board of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. He maintains a personal website at www.ascentstage.com.

Fields of interest: Data Mining/Machine Learning, Text Analysis , Imaging/Visualization, Computational Linguistics, Libraries/Digital Archives, Gaming, Augmented Reality, Modelling/Simulations, Electronic Literature, Music Cognition

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