- Information Retrieval
- Web 2.0 Geography
- Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
- Geovisualization
- Location-based Services
- Geospatial Data Mining
- Wikipedia
- Volunteered Geographic Info.
- Web Knowledge Repositories
- Semantic Relatedness Measures
- Geography and Narrative Theory
- Pattern Recognition
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- Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (beginning Fall 2008). Northwestern University.
- Master of Arts in Geography. University of California, Santa Barbara. December 2007.
- Visiting Scholar. Universität Münster. October 2006 - February 2007.
- Bachelor of Arts Honors in Computer Science. Macalester College (magna cum laude). May 2005.
- Bachelor of Arts Honors in Geography. Macalester College (magna cum laude). May 2005.
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- Hecht, Brent and Schöning, Johannes. 2008. Mapping the Zeitgeist. GIScience 2008 Abstract Proceedings. (IN PRESS)
- Hecht, Brent and Raubal, Martin. 2008. GeoSR: Geographically explore semantic relations in world knowledge. The European Information Society: Taking Geoinformation Science One Step Further. L. Bernard, A. Friis-Christensen and H. Pundt. Berlin, Germany, Springer-Verlag: 95-114.
- Schöning, Johannes, Brent Hecht, Martin Raubal, Antonio Krüger, Meri Marsh, and Michael Rohs. 2008. Improving Interaction with Virtual Globes through Spatial Thinking: Helping Users Ask "Why?". Intelligent User Interfaces 2008 (IUI 2008), p. 129-138
- Schöning, Johannes, Brent Hecht, Nicole Starosielski. 2008. Evaluating Automatically Generated Location-Based Stories for Tourists, CHI 2008 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 2937 - 2942.
- Hecht, Brent, Nicole Starosielski, and Drew Dara-Abrams. 2007. Generating Educational Tourism Narratives from Wikipedia. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, p. 37-44.
- Hecht, Brent, Michael Rohs, Johannes Schöning, and Antonio Krüger. 2007. WikEye - Using Magic Lenses to Explore Georeferenced Wikipedia Content. PERMID 2007 (in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Computing), p. 6-10.
- Schöning, Johannes, Brent Hecht, Michael Rohs, and Nicole Starosielski. 2007. WikEar − Automatically Generated Location-Based Audio Stories between Public City Maps. 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing Demo Proceedings.
- Rohs, Michael, Johannes Schöning, Antonio Krüger, and Brent Hecht. 2007. Towards Realtime Markerless Tracking of Magic Lenses on Paper Maps. Pervasive 2007 (Late Breaking Results), p. 69-72
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