The May episode of Southern Oregon University's Faculty & Staff Spotlight podcast is a conversation with Bernie Boscoe, an assistant professor in SOU's Computer Science program and a prolific researcher.
Boscoe has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation totaling more than $400,000 over the past two years to study tacit knowledge in research settings – gathering, storing and retrieving the unspoken practices of academic teams that sometimes are lost when a project is disrupted or ends. She has created a Large Language Model (LLM) of artificial intelligence to archive the protocols of scientific groups, and the resulting tacit knowledge archive benefits researchers by preventing the loss of unstated practices in research labs when participants leave the projects.
She and her students have also used artificial intelligence to document and archive photos of animals from images collected at the future site of a wildlife crossing over Interstate 5 south of Ashland.
Boscoe is a computer and information scientist who builds and researches infrastructures and tools to help domain scientists do their work.
She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from the Pratt Institute in New York, an associate degree in computer science from Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania, a master's degree in mathematics from California State University-Northridge and a Ph.D. in information science from UCLA.
Boscoe is interviewed in this 16th installment of "Faculty & Staff Spotlight," an SOU News podcast series in which a student multi-media host in SOU's Office of Communications shines a light on SOU faculty and staff members who make an impact on students and their campus community. This year's podcast host is Codi Kirksey, a Media Innovation major from Ashland.
