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Dr. Carolyn Watters received her B.Sc. in Chemistry (1970) , MLIS in Library and Information Science (1975) , and M.Sc. In Computing Science (1972), all from the University of Western Ontario, the London , Ont, Canada, and PhD in Computer Science (1986) from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousic University), Canad. Dr, Watters is currently Professor in the faculty of Computer science art Dalhousie University and Co-director of the Web Information Filtering Lab. She was earlier the Director of Electronic Commerce Programs for the faculty of Computer Science (2001) and was instrumental in lestablishing the Master of Electronic Commerce and Executive Master of Electronic Commerce Progrms. She is alsothe Associate Dean of the faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University. Her research has mainly been in the field of Infomatics and information retrieval for over three decade. She is a member of the ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval and the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the Journal of Web Engineering. She has led many workshops at conferences world wide focused on examining user experience in accessing information Dr. Watters is the author of over 125 refereed research papers in the area of information science and has delivered numerous invited lectures in many countries including India and China. She also written a couple of books and Software . She was awarded the EDDIE 1997 Software Review Award -The Math resource for the post- Secondary reference category. Her current research interests include information retrieval on the Web, Web, genre, and usability issue for users of small screen mobile devices. Dr. Watters is married to Dr. Mike Shepherd also of the Dalhousie University.