Kurt D. Bollacker is the Digital Research Director of The Long Now Foundation, whose mission is to foster long-term thinking and responsibility. He has a background in machine learning, large scale digital archiving, information retrieval, and digital libraries. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and was co-creator of the CiteSeer scientific literature search engine while a researcher at The NEC Research Institute. He was the technical director of The Internet Archive, and a research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center.