Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:54:34 -0700
From: "Butcher, Karyle" <karyle.butcher@oregonstate.edu>
Subject: FW: Reminder: Ed Fox Presentation Tomorrow
To: Deb Carver <DCARVER@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
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Hi Deb,
In case any one at your place want to attend. Ed is most well know for
his work with electronic theses.
Karyle
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Karyle Butcher
Oregon State University
University Librarian
121 The Valley Library
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
541-737-7300
fax 541-737-3453
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From: Frumkin, Jeremy
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:26 AM
To: Library Faculty
Subject: Reminder: Ed Fox Presentation Tomorrow
Ed Fox, Director of Virginia Tech's Digital Library Laboratory and a key
founder of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
(NDLTD), will be presenting on the NDLTD at the Valley Library on July
20. I have included his short biographical sketch below; in addition to
the extensive activities described in his biographical sketch, Dr. Fox is
a principal investigator on the OCKHAM project, which also involved OSU
Libraries.
I encourage anyone who is interested in digital libraries to attend his
talk. If you know of others on campus who would be interested in this
talk, please feel free to invite them.
Dr. Fox will be presenting at 1:00 PM on July 20, in the Autzen Classroom
(Room 2082).
-- jf
Short Biographical Sketch for Dr. Edward A. Fox:
Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell
University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU or
<http://www.vt.edu>Virginia Tech), where he serves as Professor of
<http://www.cs.vt.edu>Computer Science. He directs the
<http://fox.cs.vt.edu/itic/index.htm>Internet Technology Innovation
Center at Virginia Tech, <http://www.dlib.vt.edu>Digital Library Research
Laboratory, <http://www.ndltd.org>Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations, and <http://www.citidel.org>Computing and Information
Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library (CITIDEL). He has been
(co)PI on over 80 research and development projects. In addition to his
courses at Virginia Tech, Dr. Fox has taught over 50 tutorials in more
than 18 countries. He has given more than 35
keynote/banquet/international invited/distinguished speaker
presentations, over 75 refereed conference/workshop papers, and over 250
additional presentations.
For the Association for Computing Machinery he is co-editor-in-chief for
ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, member of the
editorial board for ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and was
General Chair for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
'2001. Earlier, he served 1988-91 as a member of the Publications Board
and as editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products (responsible for
the broad area of electronic publishing including online, CD-ROM,
hypertext, interactive multimedia, and developing an electronic library).
He also served from 1987-95 as vice chair and then chair of the Special
Interest Group on Information Retrieval, from 1992-94 as founder and
chairman of the Steering Committee for the ACM Multimedia series of
conferences, and from 1995-1998 as founder and chairman of the Steering
Committee for the ACM Digital Libraries series of conferences. He served
as Program Chair for ACM DL'99, ACM DL'96, and ACM SIGIR'95. He was lead
guest editor for Communications of the ACM special issues July 1989,
April 1991, April 1995, April 1998, and May 2001.
In the 1980s he was project director for the Virginia Disc series of
CD-ROMs as well as for VPI&SU work on interactive digital video. He is
editor for the Morgan Kaufmann Publishers book series on Multimedia
Information and Systems. He also serves on the editorial boards of
Electronic Publishing (Origination, Dissemination and Design), IEEE
Multimedia, Information Processing and Management, Journal of Educational
Multimedia and Hypermedia, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and
Multimedia Tools and Applications. He serves at Chairman of the IEEE-CS
Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. He has co-authored/edited 8
books, 65 journal/magazine articles, 28 book chapters, and many reports.
These are in the areas of digital libraries, information storage and
retrieval, hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia, computational linguistics,
CD-ROM and optical disc technology, electronic publishing, and expert systems
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Jeremy Frumkin
The Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services
121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University
Corvallis OR 97330-4501
<mailto:Jeremy.Frumkin@oregonstate.edu>Jeremy.Frumkin@oregonstate.edu
541.737.9928
541.737.3453 (Fax)
541.230.4483 (Cell)
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