Current Excitement

• It's official! My namesake ant: Plectroctena thaui. I feel all warm inside.

Current Projects

• PhD Program in Computer Science at UC Davis
• SEEK: Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge
• AntWeb

Selected Publications

• Reasoning about taxonomies and articulations.Thau, D. (2008) To be published in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology.
• Reasoning about taxonomies in first-order logic.Thau, D. and Ludascher,B., (2007). Ecological Informatics.
• Data Procurement for Enabling Scientific Workflows: On Exploring Inter-Ant Parasitism. Bowers, S., Thau, D., Williams, R., and Ludascher, B., (2004). Presented at the second International Semantic Web and Databases Workshop.
• The Book of JavaScript Programming for Nonprogrammers.
• Beginning and advanced JavaScript tutorials on Webmonkey

Past and Ongoing Projects

• The All Species Foundation
• bianca.com
• Humboldt Instutute for Technological Studies
• Wired Digital: Webmonkey, Wired News, and HotBot
• Mother Jones

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