UC San Diego is honoring I School adjunct professor Robert Glushko as one of 50 notable alumni in its 50-year history.
The San Diego campus of the University of California, founded in 1956, has been celebrating its fiftieth anniversary all year. As part of this week’s Alumni Weekend, the UCSD Alumni Association is recognizing fifty notable alumni from the campus’s fifty years.
Glushko is being honored for his research in electronic document management and delivery as well as his history of entrepreneurship. Before joining the faculty of the School of Information, he co-founded four compnaies, including Veo Systems, which pioneered the use of XML for electronic business. Glushko received his Ph.D. from UCSD in cognitive psychology.
In addition to Glushko, the list of notable alumni includes Emmy-winning composer Larry Groupé, astronaut K. Megan McArthur, artists Kim MacConnel and Joyce Cutler Shaw, legislators Lucy Killea and Tim Roemer, Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, surfboard manufacturer Rusty Preisendorfer, and Khaled Hossani, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
