Dr John Barrie created the original architecture and fundamental technology behind iThenticate and Turnitin in 1994. Dr. Barrie is currently the President and CEO of iParadigms and continues to provide the vision of digital intellectual property detection in published material. As spokesperson for the company, Dr. Barrie has become a national leader and expert on the problem of plagiarism in education, and has given numerous keynote presentations on this subject. He has been interviewed by many well-known and respected media outlets such as CNN, ABC (Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings), CBS (48 Hours with Dan Rather, and 60 Minutes with Morley Safer), BBC, the New York Times, USA Today, and many others.

Dr. Barrie completed his undergraduate studies in Rhetoric and Neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, and he holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics (with a specialty in Neurobiology) from Berkeley as well. The emphasis of his prior research was the characterization of spatiotemporal aspects of the neocortical EEG as a tool for understanding how memory and perception function; he has published multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts on the topic.

Dr. Barrie's vision is now changing ideas about education in the digital era. Turnitin is used by millions of students and faculty in more than eighty-five countries (including every university in the United Kingdom), and receives nearly forty-thousand student papers each day.

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