Draft:Mark Kantrowitz

{{Infobox author

| name = Mark Kantrowitz

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| birth_date = 1963

| subject = Finance

| birth_place = USA

}}Mark Kantrowitz (born 1963) is an American author and publisher.{{Cite news |last=Kim |first=Jane J. |date=2010-07-02 |title=A Student Loan Gadfly Gets a Starring Policy Role |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704699604575343113895741050 |access-date=2025-03-22 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite book |last1=Kantrowitz |first1=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtDkAgAAQBAJ |title=Filing the FAFSA: The Edvisors Guide to Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid |last2=Levy |first2=David |date=2014-01-31 |publisher=Edvisors Network, Inc. |isbn=978-0-9914646-2-3 |language=en}}

Education and career

Mark completed dual Bachelor of Science in mathematics and philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).{{Cite web |title=Mark Kantrowitz, Author at Savingforcollege.com |url=https://www.savingforcollege.com/authors/mark-kantrowitz |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=Savingforcollege.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=McLean |first=Va |date=30 June 2022 |title=Congratulations to Mark Kantrowitz! |url=https://www.cee.org/newsevents/press-releases/congratulations-mark-kantrowitz |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=Center for Excellence in Education}}

After completing post graduation, he worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Bitstream Inc, and the Planning Research Corporation.

Currently, Mark is a contributor at the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The College Investor and a few other financial aid websites.{{Cite web |title=Mark Kantrowitz - Personal Finance Writer |url=https://www.wsj.com/buyside/editorial-team/mark-kantrowitz |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=WSJ Buyside |language=en}} Additionally, he serves as a member of the board of trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education.

Contributions

Mark is an author and co-author of a few financial guidebooks related to student aid in the US -

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|Title

|Authors

|Publisher

|ISBN

Filing the FAFSA: The Edvisors Guide to Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid{{Cite book |last1=Kantrowitz |first1=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtDkAgAAQBAJ |title=Filing the FAFSA: The Edvisors Guide to Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid |last2=Levy |first2=David |date=2014-01-31 |publisher=Edvisors Network, Inc. |isbn=978-0-9914646-2-3 |language=en}}

|Mark Kantrowitz, David Levy

|Edvisors Network, Inc., 2014

|0991464621, 9780991464623

How to Appeal for More College Financial Aid{{Cite book |last=Kantrowitz |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32TIwAEACAAJ |title=How to Appeal for More College Financial Aid: The Secrets to Negotiating a Better Financial Aid Offer ... and Getting More Financial Aid in the First Place! |date=2019-01-11 |publisher=Independently Published |isbn=978-1-7932-9844-7 |language=en}}

|Mark Kantrowitz

|Independently Published

|9781793298447, 1793298440

Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students{{Cite book |last1=Kantrowitz |first1=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMOZzgEACAAJ |title=Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students: A Resource Guide for Students Pursuing Careers in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering |last2=DiGennaro |first2=Joann P. |date=1993 |publisher=Prentice Hall |isbn=978-0-13-045337-2 |language=en}}

|Mark Kantrowitz, Joann P. DiGennaro

|Prentice Hall

|9780130453372, 0130453374

Twisdoms about Paying for College{{Cite book |last=Kantrowitz |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=frsiswEACAAJ |title=Twisdoms about Paying for College |date=2015-08-06 |publisher=Edvisors Network, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-9914646-4-7 |language=en}}

|Mark Kantrowitz

|Edvisors Network, Incorporated, 2015

|0991464648, 9780991464647

=== Publications ===

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|Title{{Cite web |title=Mark Kantrowitz |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=scholar.google.com}}

|Authors

|Patent/Conference/Book Name

|Date

Summarizing text documents: Sentence selection and evaluation metrics{{Cite book |last1=Goldstein |first1=Jade |last2=Kantrowitz |first2=Mark |last3=Mittal |first3=Vibhu |last4=Carbonell |first4=Jaime |chapter=Summarizing text documents: Sentence selection and evaluation metrics |date=August 1999 |title=Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C |language=en |location=Berkeley California USA |publisher=ACM |pages=121–128 |doi=10.1145/312624.312665 |isbn=978-1-58113-096-6}}

|Jade Goldstein, Mark Kantrowitz, Vibhu Mittal, Jaime Carbonell

|Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (Pages 121-128)

|1999/8/1

Multi-document summarization by sentence extraction{{Cite web |title=Multi-document summarization by sentence extraction |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=scholar.google.com}}

|Jade Goldstein, Vibhu O Mittal, Jaime G Carbonell, Mark Kantrowitz

|NAACL-ANLP 2000 workshop: automatic summarization

|2000

Method and apparatus for efficient identification of duplicate and near-duplicate documents and text spans using high-discriminability text fragments{{Cite web |title=Method and apparatus for efficient identification of duplicate and near-duplicate documents and text spans using high-discriminability text fragments |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:Y0pCki6q_DkC |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=scholar.google.com}}

|Mark Kantrowitz

|US Patent 6,978,419, 2005

|2005/12/20

Method for identifying the language of individual words{{Cite web |title=Method and apparatus for efficient identification of duplicate and near-duplicate documents and text spans using high-discriminability text fragments |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:Y0pCki6q_DkC |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=scholar.google.com}}

|Mark Kantrowitz

|US Patent 6,978,419, 2005

|2005/12/20

Method and apparatus for analyzing affect and emotion in text{{Cite web |title=Method and apparatus for analyzing affect and emotion in text |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:8k81kl-MbHgC |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=scholar.google.com}}

|Mark Kantrowitz

|US Patent 6,622,140, 2003

|2003/9/16

Method for rule-based correction of spelling and grammar errors{{Cite web |title=Method for rule-based correction of spelling and grammar errors |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=scholar.google.com}}

|Mark Kantrowitz, Shumeet Baluja

|US Patent 6,618,697, 2003

|2003/9/9

Stemming and its effects on TFIDF ranking{{Cite book |last1=Kantrowitz |first1=Mark |last2=Mohit |first2=Behrang |last3=Mittal |first3=Vibhu |chapter=Stemming and its effects on TFIDF ranking (Poster session) |date=July 2000 |title=Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:qjMakFHDy7sC |language=en |location=Athens Greece |publisher=ACM |pages=357–359 |doi=10.1145/345508.345650 |isbn=978-1-58113-226-7}}

|Mark Kantrowitz, Behrang Mohit, Vibhu Mittal

|Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (Pages 357-359)

|2000/7/1

Method and apparatus for learning from user self-corrections, revisions and modifications{{Cite web |title=Method and apparatus for learning from user self-corrections, revisions and modifications |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:5nxA0vEk-isC |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=scholar.google.com}}

|Mark Kantrowitz, Ray Pelletier, Evan Bernstein

|US Patent App. 09/782,449, 2002

|2002/10/24

Optimal imaging surveillance schedules after liver-directed therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma{{Cite web |title=Method and apparatus for learning from user self-corrections, revisions and modifications |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=9SadVl0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=9SadVl0AAAAJ:5nxA0vEk-isC |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=scholar.google.com}}

|Mark Kantrowitz, Ray Pelletier, Evan Bernstein

|US Patent App. 09/782,449, 2002

|2002/10/24

Awards and achievements

Mark has testified before the U.S. Congress on student aid policy and has contributed to discussions on improving access to higher education funding. In 1996, he provided the U.S. Department of Education with a prototype of an online Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which contributed to the development of FAFSA on the Web for the 1997-98 academic year.

In 2021, Mark Kantrowitz was selected for the Senator Joseph I. Lieberman Award for Outstanding Achievement in STEM.{{Cite web |last=McLean |first=Va |date=12 October 2020 |title=CEE Announces Lieberman Awardees for Outstanding Achievement in STEM |url=https://www.cee.org/newsevents/press-releases/cee-announces-lieberman-awardees-outstanding-achievement-stem |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=Center for Excellence in Education}}

References

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