Bruce Schatz is Principal Investigator of the NSF/ DARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he manages a $1M/year budget, as Director of the Digital Library Research Program in the University Library.
He is Associate Professor in Library & Information Science and in Computer Science, and Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
He has been the scientific advisor for information systems at NCSA since 1989, including the development of NCSA Mosaic, which was inspired by his Telesophy system. Dr. Schatz previously spent ten years in industrial R&D at Bellcore and Bell Labs, where he built prototypes of networked digital libraries which served as a foundation of current Internet services (Telesophy), and five years at the University of Arizona, where he was PI of a NSF National Collaboratory project which built a community system in molecular biology referenced as a national model for future science information systems (Worm Community System).
He holds an NSF Young Investigator award in science information systems and is in steady demand for national policy committees on information infrastructure and scientific applications. His graduate education included artificial intelligence at MIT and computer science at CMU. He has served for many years as a member-at-large on the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).
Charles Herring was, until recently, Team Leader of the Advanced Simulation and Software Engineering Team at the U. S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories (CERL). The last annual budget was $2M.
Some of the notable projects he led there included work on the U.S. Army ModSim and ModLog simulation programming language. His work on the development of the Integrated Simulation Language Environment (ISLE) was personally championed by Mr. Walter Hollis, Deputy Undersecretary of the Army. Herring was responsible for numerous reimbursable projects for the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), DARPA ASTO, and DARPA SISTO. He was selected as the Army technical representative to help launch the Joint Simulation System (JSIM) project. This led to his work in support of the ASTO Advanced Distributed Simulation projects under the Synthetic Theater of War (STW) program. He was an DARPA Agent for the Joint Task Force Advanced Technology Demonstration. On that project he was the COTR on several large contracts and started the Object Modeling Working Group as a joint services effort to develop the conceptual basis for the JTF ATD.
Mr. Herring holds a MS in computer science from the University of Illinois. His work in simulation technology was recognized by his selection as chairman of the Society for Computer Simulation's Object-Oriented Simulation conference in 1994. He is currently a senior research programmer at the University of Illinois on the Digital Library Initiative project.
Hsinchun Chen is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona and director of the Artificial Intelligence Group. He received an NSF Research Initiation Award and an AT&T Foundation Award in Science and Engineering. He was the co-PI on both SchatzÌs National Collaboratory and Digital Library grants, responsible for semantic retrieval algorithms.
He was recently awarded a multi-year grant from NSF to build intelligent Internet categorization and search algorithms. He has published more than 50 articles in leading journals such as CACM, JASIS, and Computer. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from New York University. In 1994, he received the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Best Paper Award.
Duncan Lawrie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has contributed to the design of several large computers including the Illiac IV where he designed and implemented the first high-level language for that machine, and the Burroughs Scientific Processor where he specialized in the array memory system.
He has published extensively on the subject of design and evaluation of computer architecture, especially in the areas of networks for tightly coupled multiprocessors, virtual memory performance, and the use of mass file storage devices.
He has been a consultant to industry and government in the areas of computer organization, applications studies, and public policy.Dr. Lawrie has served on a number of policy committees including a panel to design a five-year plan for Applied Mathematical Sciences (DOE), a committee on alternative technologies for class VI computing (NSF), a committee on supercomputer performance evaluation (National Research Council) and a committee chartered by the Federal Coordinating Council on Science and Engineering Technology which made recommendations for national policiespertaining to computing technology and contributed to the recent recommendations on supercomputing and networking issued by OSTP.
He was a member of the Committee on Scientific Supercomputing -- a standing committee under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) U.S. Activities Board. Dr. Lawrie was a co-chairman of the Symposium on High Speed Computer and Algorithm Organization, program co-chairman of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel Processing, and general chairman of the Fourth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. He chaired the Science Advisory Committee of the IDA Supercomputing Research Center.
Hewas an editor of the Computer Architecture and Systems Department of the Communications of the ACM and is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He was elected to two terms on the Board of Governors and as 1991 president of the IEEE Computer Society, and also served on the Board of Directors of the Computer Research Association.
He currently chairs the Electronic Publishing Task Force of the ComputerSociety, and the University of Illinois Information Technology Committee. He is a member of the ACM and a fellow of the IEEE.
Robert E. McGrath is a Senior Software Engineer at NCSA, with ten years experience integrating and investigating large scale distributed systems. He earned a Masters degree in Psychology from University of New Hampshire (1980), and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1985).
McGrath has worked on parallel and distributed operating systems for the University of Illinois and private companies. He was a principle implementer of the Xylem operating system for the Cedar project at the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development. At NCSA, he has supported large-scale mass storage and file systems, and was a principle architect of the NCSA World Wide Web service [Kwan, McGrath, and Reed 1995].
He is the author of many papers and reports, including a recent technical evaluation of the University of Illinois Digital Library Initiative implementation [McGrath 1996], and is co-author of the book Web Server Technology [Yeager and McGrath 1996]. He is Principle Investigator for the project ``Accessing Space Science Data Using The Internet'', funded by NASA [McGrath and Plante 1996].
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