DEA Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1998 - Present

Professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Teaching and research in the area of distributed knowledge environments (including collaboratories and digital libraries) including the impact on research teams and the future of higher education.

Senior Advisor to the U. S. National Science Foundation. Working across the Foundation to help further develop programs in the creation, provision and frontier application of cyberinfrastructure.

Founding Director of the Alliance for Community Technology (ACT). ACT is a strategic alliance of research, education, and service, backed by major foundations to link academia, social investors, and community-based organizations for research and development to provide broader opportunity for people to participate in "digital opportunity." See www.communitytechnology.org. Digital library work includes creating a test-bed digital library federation with the 30 Native American tribal colleges. He also hosted an NSF-sponsored workshop to explore extensions of this work to other indigenous cultures. We are also doing experiments in the use of global cross-cultural collaboratories to support graduate student seminars as well as global-product engineering design courses. Other sites include South Africa, England, the Netherlands, Poland and Korea.

Serving on several National Academy of Sciences and Engineering panels concerning the future of the research university in the digital age, scholarship in the digital age, scholarly communication in the digital age, and information technology and K-12.

Chair of the NSF Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. Final report has been issued and is serving as a catalyst for a broad array of responses and initiatives across the NSF and other national and international agencies.

Project Director for NSF sponsored Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC) funded under the Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Initiative (KDI). This is a "flagship" collaboratory project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and received a Smithsonian award for one of the most significant uses of the Internet to support scientific research.

Co-PI on NSF ITR award on the Science of Collaboratories – a multi-disciplinary team focusing on synthesizing and articulating findings from a decade of experimental research on collaboratories at the University of Michigan and elsewhere.

Serving as consultant to industry, philanthropy, academia, and the National Science Foundation.

1992 - 1998

Founding Dean, School of Information (www.si.umich.edu). In 1992 Atkins became Dean of the School of Information and Library Studies with the explicit mandate to transform it into a new school with a broader, visionary mission. In 1994 the School was re-chartered by the Regents as the School of Information with initial specializations in human-computer interaction; information economics, management, and policy; knowledge management; and information and library services. He established an excellent multi-disciplinary faculty with backgrounds in computer and information science, psychology, economics, sociology, political science, history, business, law, and others. He raised over $20M in external support within a five year period.

SI is a catalysis for a broad array of multi-disciplinary activities related to future information technology systems and organizational forms. Major sponsorships for these initiatives are coming from foundations, industry, and government including the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, Intel, Ford Motor Company, Steelcase, Lucent, Sun Microsystems, DARPA, NIH, and the National Science Foundation. The UM School of Information as been instrumental in launching the “I-School” movement at a growing number of other universities.

Director and Co-PI of NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Library Research Initiative. This was a partnership between the federal government, the University, and the private sector. We conducted multi-disciplinary basic research, built a digital library testbed based upon distributed intelligent agent technology and markets, and evaluated it in use in schools and libraries. $4M plus $4M co-investment from the University, industry, and foundations over 4 years.

Director and Co-PI of a multi-disciplinary, experimental research project to create and evaluate an advanced information systems to support remote collaboration in space science research. This Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC) Project was sponsored by the National Science Foundation for 5 years at a level of $4M. Renewed September 1998 for three more years under the broader name of Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC).

Serving on numerous national committees of the NSF, AAU, ARL, Library of Congress, Council of Library resources, Council on Preservation and Access to help define the vision and plan of action to achieve the national digital library.

August 1992 - July 1992

Co-leader in establishing a multi-disciplinary collaboration systems research group. Chaired the University task force on high-performance computing and visualization. Established a seminar course in computer-integrated digital media.

July 1991 - August 1992

Sabbatical leave spent at several industrial and university research laboratories. Participated in research activities in integrated digital video-computing systems with application to advanced information systems, especially those that support distributed group work.

January 1989 - July 1991

Interim Dean, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan. Continued path of rebuilding faculty and rapid growth in sponsored research, and physical plant. UM College of Engineering is now ranked in top five due in large part to changes made in the 1980s. Secured major private funding for a new building for the Aerospace Department. Personally supported the UM student Sunrunner team which designed, built, raced, and won the first national solar race car competition.

October 1981 - January 1989

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan. Member of administrative core and participated in all aspects of College administration. Specific responsibilities included stimulating large-scale research programs, building industrial research partnerships, assisting faculty with research related issues, and responsibility for building the College distributed computing environment, CAEN that became a national model. Working with James Duderstadt (now President Emeritus, University of Michigan) and Charles Vest (President of MIT) we presided over a rapid rejuvenation of the College including the hiring of 200 faculty in 5 years made necessary by a demographic bulge of retirements and resignations.

June 1981 - Present

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan. Research and teaching in distributed computer architecture, digital libraries and collaboration technology. Pursued a multi-disciplinary approach including coupling of technical and social/behavioral constraints.

September 1975 - June 1981

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Michigan. Specialized in high-performance computing architecture and computer-aided design of application specific systems. Validated work through building eight different experimental machines including special high-performance processors for advanced tomography systems with the Mayo Clinic and others for remote-sensing and machine vision with the Environmental research Institute of Michigan (ERIM).

July 1971 - September 1975

Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, The University of Michigan. Specialized in high-performance computing architecture with special emphasis of parallel structures and high-speed computer arithmetic based upon higher-radix and redundant encodings. Some of my work in this area in higher-radix division is used in commercial machines, including the Intel Pentium series.

February 1971 - June 1972

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

October 1970 - February 1971

Electronic Engineer, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland. Part-time: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland. Taught switching theory.

July 1970 - October 1970

Captain, U.S. Army Reserve. On Active Duty for Training. Attended Signal Officer Basic Course, Ft. Gordon Georgia.

September 1965 - June 1970 (except summer 1967)

Graduate student and half-time research assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois. Designed high-speed arithmetic units for ILLIAC III Pattern Recognition Computer. Conducted research in the area of computer arithmetic. Assisted in teaching introductory course in computer design and advanced course in computer arithmetic. Served as consultant to Illiac 4 – early highly parallel array machine. My thesis research is the basis for the division algorithm in most all modern microprocessor chips.

Summer 1967

Electronic Engineer, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Developed data on digital graphics equipment.

Summer 1965

Director, Computer Center, Bucknell University. Responsible for general administration for the center. Instructor in programming for NSF High School Teacher Program.

September 1962 - May 1965

Student and part-time computer center employee, Bucknell University. Designed and constructed an on-line digital clock for the IBM 1620.

Summers 1963 and 1964

Electrical Engineering Aid, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Assisted in trouble-shooting digital data acquisition system and in the development of data reduction programs.

Summer 1962

Engineering Aid, District of Columbia Highway Department. Assisted in development of computer model of traffic flow in D.C. area.

CONSULTING, BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

MIT Board of Visitors for Libraries and Information Technology.

Npower-Michigan, Member of the Board of Directors.

Digital Partners, Member of the Board of Directors.

National Science Foundation Consultant on the design of FASTLANE system; cyberinfrastructure initiatives.

University of Washington, UC Berkeley, Penn State – formation of information schools.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Technical assistance to Information System/Technology program area.

Digital Learning International, Boston.

United Technologies

Technical advisory committee member on information technology and building "the world-wide virtual office."

Open Software Foundation (OSF)

Consultant on establishment of OSF Research Institute.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Member, External Advisory Committee on Computing and Information Systems.

BWM, Ann Arbor

Review of technology and startups for venture capital community.

TECH-S, Livonia, Michigan

Microprocessor systems.

Doan Resources Corp., Midland, Michigan

Technical analysis of companies for investment.

Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Corp. (R&D Division)

Advanced microprocessors architecture.

Software Research Associates

Evaluation of micro programmed, digital emulation machine.

Intel Corporation

Arithmetic algorithms for the 8087 and 432 processor.

Applied Dynamics International

Very high speed (ECL) special purpose digital processor for simulation of dynamic systems.

Medical Data Systems, Inc.

Evaluation of design of pre-processor for medical nuclear camera system.

Mayo Foundation/Clinic

Assisted in projects related to the design and implementation of ultra high-speed processor for real time computerized tomography.

Environmental Research Institute of Michigan

Design and implementation for special purpose, pipelined processor for classification of multi-spectral imagery data. Development of custom LSI chip for cellular pattern recognition computer.

3-M Company

Evaluation of digital system for automated grocery warehouse.

Bucknell University

Design and implementation of on-line library circulation control system.

PUBLICATIONS (Refereed)

“Transforming knowledge communities through cyberinfrastructure,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in Networked Information Society, March 2-5, 2004, Tsukuba, Japan.

“Keeping academic libraries at the center of the university,” in Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21^st Century, University of Michigan Library Digital Publishing Unit, available at: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/BBV9812.

Information Technology and the Transformation of Scientific and Engineering Research, to appear in book published by MIT Press based on selected papers from First International Conference on the Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology, January 27-28, 2003. See http://cip.umd.edu/transform.htm

Final Report of the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure: Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure, Atkins, D.E., Droegemeier, K.K., Feldman, S. I., Garcia-Molina, H., Klein, M.L., Messerschmitt, D.G., Messina, P., Ostriker, J.P., Wright, M.H., January 2003, http://www.cise.nsf.gov/evnt/reports/toc.htm, also available in hardcopy from NSF.

Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University, co-author of this report with other Panel members, National Research Council of the National Academies, 2002. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10545.html

Higher education in the digital age: technology issues and strategies for American colleges (book), with J. Duderstadt and D. VanHouweling, ACE/Praeger series on higher education. 2002, United States: Am Coun on Educ., Praeger Greenwood Publ Grp Inc. xi/288

Issues for Science and Engineering Researchers in the Digital Age, co-author of this report with other Panel members, National Research Council of the National Academies, 2001, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10100.html

“The Future of Libraries and Library Schools,” in Development of Digital Libraries, edited by Deanna B. Marcum, pp. 244-252, Greenwood Press, 2001.

"Crafting Virtual Collaboration: Cross-National Learning Teams in the United States and South Africa," (with Derrick L. Cogburn, Vlad Weilbut, Mary Mulvihil, and Nanette Levinson) To be included in Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, 14-18 March 2000, Los Angeles, California.

"The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory". (with Olson, G.M., Clauer, R, Finholt, T.A., Jahanian, F., Killeen, T.L., Prakash, A., & Weymouth, T_ Interactions, 5(3), 48-55, 1998.

"The Kellogg CRISTAL-ED Project: Creating a Model Program to Support Libraries in the Digital Age" (with K. Drabenstott), Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 20, pp. 47 -68, 1996.

"Toward Inquiry-Based Education Through Interacting Software Agents" (with W. Birmingham, E. Durfee, E. Glover, T. Mullen, E. Rundensteiner, E. Soloway, J. Vidal, R. Wallace, and M. Wellman), Computer, p 69, May 1996.

"An Overview of Digital Library Initiatives at the University of Michigan." (with Wendy P. Lougee, Randall Frank, and Katherine Willis) Journal of the Information Processing Society of Japan. 37:9 (1996), 848-856.

"The Future of Libraries and Library Schools", Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) International Roundtable for Library and Information Science, Japan, November 1995.

"The Research Library The Day After Tomorrow: A Library Educator’s Perspective," Proceedings of the Association of Research Libraries 124th Annual Meeting, May 18-20, 1994, pp 37-40.

"Managing digital information: preparing for the future," (with K. Erhardt-Domino and W. Panko), American Medical Informatics Association, October 1993.

"A prototype upper atmospheric research collaboratory (UARC), (with Clauer, Weymouth, Olson, et.al.), Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, 1993.

"Exploration of a national engineering information service (NENGIS): Technical Issues," Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference to Explore the Creation of a National Engineering Information Service, Council of Library Resources, Washington, D.C., 1992.

"Supporting collaboration with advanced multimedia electronic mail: The NSF EXPRES project," (with G.M. Olson), in Intellectual Teamwork: Social and Technological Foundations of Cooperative Work, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990.

"Systolic routing hardware: performance evaluation and optimization," (with R.A. Rutenbar), IEEE Trans. CAD of ICs and Systems, vol. 7, no. 7, March 1988.

"The University of Michigan's Computer-aided Engineering Network," (with L.A. Olsen), Engineering Education, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 146-152, December 1986.

"Overview of the EXPRES Project," Proceedings of the National Office Automation Conference, November 14-16, 1986.

"A user perspective on computer workstation integration," (with R.L. Phillips), IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, July 1986.

"A bridge between reduced and full-function computers workstations," (with R.L. Phillips, N. Benovich, B. Schipper), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 53-57, May 1986.

"The design of a vector-radix 2DFFT chip," (with W. Liu, J.C. Duh), Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, Urbana, IL, May 1985.

"Iterative image reconstruction with a single-board computer employing hardware acceleration," (with R. Mayans, W.L. Rogers, N.H. Clinthorne, I. Chin, J. Hanao), Proceedings of the Society of Nuclear Medicine 31st Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, June 5-8, 1984.

"A class of cellular architectures to support physical design automation," (with R.A. Rutenbar and T.N. Mudge), IEEE Trans. CAD of ICs and Systems, vol. CAD-3, no. 4, pp. 264-278, October 1984.

"VLSI pipelined architectures for two-dimensional FFT with raster-scan input device," (with W. Liu), IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers (ICCD84), New York, October 1984.

"Wire routing experiments on a raster pipeline subarray machine," (with R.A. Rutenbar and T.N. Mudge), Digest of Papers, IEEE International conference on Computer Aided Design, Santa Clara, CA, pp. 135-136, September 1983.

"Wireability analysis of digital systems in gate array environments," (with W. Liu), Proceedings of 1983 IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Santa Clara, CA, September 12-15, 1983.

"Bounds on saved area ratio due to PLA folding," (with W. Liu), Proceedings of 20th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, Miami Beach, FL, pp. 538-544, June 27-29, 1983.

"On the routability and channel routing orders for a general cell approach," (with W. Liu), Proceedings of 1982 International Conference on Circuits and Computers, pp. 246-249, New York, September 29, 1982.

"Cellular image processing techniques for VLSI circuit layout validation and routing," (with T.N. Mudge, R.A. Rutenbar, R.L. Lougheed), Proceedings 19th Design Automation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 537-543, June 1982.

"Overview of an arithmetic design system," (with W. Liu and S. Ong), Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE 18th Design Automation Conference, Nashville, TN, June 1981.

"Towards quantitative comparison of computer number systems," (with S. Ong), Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, Ann Arbor, MI, IEEE Pub. No. 1CH1630-3, pp. 21-33, May 1981.

"Implementation of computation-intensive reconstruction algorithms for X-ray computed tomography," (with B. Gilbert, et al.), Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Chicago, IL, pp. 256-264, August 1979.

"Crunching with quality and LSI: Summary of the 4th Symposium on Computer Arithmetic," Computer, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 94-97, April 1979.

"Time-component complexity of two approaches to multi-operand binary addition," (with S. Ong), IEEE Trans. Comp., vol. C-28, no. 12, pp. 918-926, December 1979.

"Application of optimized parallel processing digital computers and numerical approximation methods to the ultra high-speed three dimensional reconstruction of the intact thorax," (with B. Gilbert, et al.), Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems (Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems, 21-25 August 1978, Amsterdam), Springer- Verlag, Berlin, 1978. (An expanded version of this paper under the same title has been published in Biomedical Computing, vol. 10, 1979, pp. 317-329.)

"Ultra High Speed Transaxial Image Reconstruction of the Heart, Lungs, and Circulation via Numerical Approximation Methods and Optimized Processor Architecture," (with B. Gilbert, et al.), Computers and Biomedical Research, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 17-38, February 1979.

"A Suggested Approach to Computer Arithmetic for Designers of Multi-Valued Logic Processors," Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Multi-Valued Logic, Chicago, IL, IEEE Pub. No. 78CH1366-4C, pp.33-46, 1978.

"A Comparison of Two Approaches to Multi-Operand Binary Addition," (with S. Ong), Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, Santa Monica, CA., IEEE Pub. No. 78CH 1412-6C, pp. 125-139, October 25-27, 1978.

"Application of Specialized Digital Computation to Power System Network Analysis Problems," (with M. Enns and R.M. Howe) in Electric Power Research Institute Report EL-566-SR, Exploring Applications of Parallel Processing to Power System Analysis Problems, pp. 249-264, Oct 1977.

"A Complexity Result on a Pipeline Processor Design Problem," (with M. Schlansker), in High Speed Computer and Algorithm Organization, Academic Press, pp. 129-142, 1977.

"The Role of Redundancy in Computer Arithmetic," Computer, July 1975.

"An Educational Laboratory in Contemporary Digital Design," (with J. Baron) Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture, Houston, January 1975. (This paper has also been published as an example of a well-written technical paper in Designing Technical Reports, by J.C. Mathes and D.W. Stevenson, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1976, pp. 250-257.)

"Concurrency in Generalized Radix, Non-restoring Division," (with U. Kalaycioglu), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Allerton Conference, University of Illinois, October 1974.

"A Shared-Memory Micro-Mini Computer System for Process Control," (with K. Kanaby), Proceedings of the Ninth Annual IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Washington, D.C., September 1974.

"A Microprogramming Language for the B-1726," (with M. Schlansker and D. DeWitt), Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Workshop on Microprogramming, University of Maryland, September 1973.

"Computer Arithmetic: An Introduction and Overview," (with H.L. Garner), IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. C-22, no. 6, pp. 549-551, June 1973.

"Redundancy in Computer Arithmetic," Proceedings of Sixth Annual IEEE Computer Society International Conference, San Francisco, CA, pp. 85-88, September 1972.

"Towards Understanding Data Structures and Data Base Design," Proceedings of XDS User's Group 17th International Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 128-192, November 1971.

"The Analysis and Design of a Class of Quotient Digit Selectors," Proceedings of the 1971 IEEE International Computer Society Conference, Boston, MA, pp. 201-202, September 1971.

"Design of the Arithmetic Units of ILLIAC III: Use of Redundancy and Higher Radix Methods," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. C-19, no. 8, pp. 720-723, August 1970.

"Higher Radix Division Using Estimates of the Divisor and Partial Remainders," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. C-17, no. 10, pp. 925-934, October 1968.

"An Extraordinarily Strange Type of Man," The Bucknell Engineer, May 1964. (Producer and moderator of an audio cassette recording of the summary session of the ACM/IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Directions in Computer Architecture, Nov. 16-17, 1977, University of Texas. Copies were distributed to all members of SIGARCH and are a part of the ACM recording series.)

OTHER

Many invited talks at academic, industrial and professional events. Examples include

· Organizer and panel moderator, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications, May 19-20, 2003, Washington, D.C. http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cosepup/E-Publishing.html

· Keynote, Symposium on Medical Informatics, State University of New York – Stony Brook, 2000.

· Marshall Scholars Symposium on Information Technology and Society, 1999.

· America Medical Informatics Society - Keynote, Chicago, May 1999.

· American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago 1998.

· Association of Dental School Deans - August 1998.

· European Union Digital Library Research Symposium, Brussels, Oct. 1998

· National Academy of Engineering Workshop on Productivity in the Telecommunications Industry, Oct 1998.

· (Keynote) First Russian Conference on Digital Library Research, Moscow, Dec 1998.

· Dynamic Document Conference in Jena, Germany, March 1999.

EXPRES project videotape on first year status.

Produced 16mm motion picture films using computer graphics logic simulation system:

"Introduction to Logic Design.”

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Currently advising two doctoral students in the School of Information. In Engineering have graduated eight Ph.D. students and been member of many other doctoral committees. Four of my students are faculty at major schools (Dewitt, Rutenbar, Kalicioglu, Liu), four are in major industrial research laboratories (Schlansker, Ong, Lai, Chen).

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Member, Program Committee Member, European Digital Library Conference 2003, Trondheim, Norway, Aug. 2003.

Member, Steering Committee for a National Academies Symposium on "Electronic, Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications.”

Chair, NSF Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure.

Member, Internet2 Industry Strategy Council.

Member steering committee for National Academies Initiative on Information Technology and the Future of the Research University.

Member, National Research Council Member of Panel on Scholarship in the Digital Age. Report now available from National Academies Press.

External Board of Advisors, MIT Libraries.

Member, Board of Directors, Digital Partners, Seattle, Washington.

Member, Board of Directors, NPower Detroit.

Member, Program Committee Member, European Digital Library Conference 2002, Rome, Italy, Sept. 2002.

Member, Program Committee Member, European Digital Library Conference 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, Sept. 2001.

Technical Advisory Committee of the Internet Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.

Member, Program Committee, European Digital Library Conference 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2000.

Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Digital Library Research, Springer-Verlag, publisher.

Member, Board of Directors of Ann Arbor Hands on Museum (Science museum for children.)

Serve as reviewer of proposals and papers for National Science Foundation, IEEE, ACM, ASIS.

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Member, IEEE Computer Society.

Member, American Library Association.

Member, American Society of Information Sciences.

American Association of Universities Committee on the future provision of technical information.

National Academic of Science & Engineering panel on collaboration systems in scientific research.

National Academic of Science & Engineering panel on the application of emerging information technology to engineering education.

Member, National Science Foundation panel on Collaboration Technology.

Member, National Science Foundation panel on Innovation in the Engineering Curriculum.

Member, National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on Computer Science (3 year term).

Member, Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group of Computer Architecture and Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Chairman, Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture.

Program Committee Chairman for IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, May 16-17, 1972.

Guest Editor IEEE Trans. Comp., June 1973.

Member, National Digital Systems Education Committee.

Member, Program Committee, Third IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture, January 1976.

Co-organizer, Third IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, November 1975.

Program Chairman, IEEE-ACM Symposium on Computer Architecture, La Baule France, May 1980.

Co-organizer, Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, October 1978.

General Chairman, IEEE Computer Society Fifth Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, 1981.

HONORARY SOCIETIES AND AWARDS

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering), Sigma XI (Research), Pi Mu Epsilon (Math), Pi Delta Epsilon (Journalism), Phi Eta Sigma (Scholastic).

Matheson Award for contributions to Medical Informatics.

Distinguished Service Award, University of Michigan, 1976 and 1992.

CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS

Cyberinfrastructure and collaboration systems architecture, including digital libraries, collaboratories and distance-independent learning.

SPONSORED RESEARCH

I have maintained a large sponsored-research program continuously over my academic career beginning in 1972. The primary sponsor of my work has been the National Science Foundation although I have also received support from DARPA, NIH, and private companies.

TEACHING AND TEACHING INNOVATION

In the first decade of my career I taught graduate level courses in digital arithmetic and digital system design and computer architecture. While serving as a Dean in Engineering and later in the School of Information I had very little time for teaching although I did participate in some graduate seminars, for example a pilot graduate course in the area of integrated video-computing systems.

I established or participated in major revisions of three digital design laboratory courses and pioneered the use of register-transfer level simulation in digital design courses at UM. Helped establish Meade-Conway VLSI course here.

I am now teaching a graduate course in research topics around digital libraries and developing a research seminar to develop scenarios and indicators for exploring the future of the university in the information age. I have co-developed a distance-independent seminar concerning information technology in developing countries which is being taught concurrently at two US universities and four in South Africa. We are using Internet tools for the course to support a combination of synchronous and asynchronous interactions. We are also documenting some "better than being there" attributes of the technology in this course.

EXAMPLES OF MAJOR UNIVERSITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Member, Provost Advisory Committee on IT and Transforming Academia

Member, UM Information Commission Sub-committee on IT and Research

Member, UM Provost Committee on Information Resources.

Member, UM Presidential Futures Group.

Member, UM Library Director Search Committee.

Member, UM Provost Search Committee.

Member, UM Information Technology Policy Committee.

Member, External Advisory Committee, UM School Library and Information Science.

Member, Executive Committee of CAMRSS.

Member, Executive Committee of UM Transportation Research Institute.

Member, UM Information Technology Division Advisory Committee.

Member, Executive Committee, UM Center for Information Technology Integration.

Chairman, Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee.

Chairman, CICE Examinations Committee.

Member, Departmental Executive Committee.

Served on several ad hoc committees for the Dean of Engineering and Vice-President for Academic Affairs.