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| Biagini, Mary K. |
Associate Dean and
Associate Professor
Office: 509 IS Building
Phone: (412) 624-5138
Fax: (412) 648-5231
Email: mbiagini
(at) mail sis pitt edu
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Research Interests:
Continuing education; school library media center
management; adult and young adult materials and
reading interests.
Education:
BS, California University of Pennsylvania, 1963,
English Education
MLS, School of Library Science, Kent State University,
1965
PhD, School of Library and Information Science,
University of Pittsburgh, 1980, Library Science;
Higher Education [Dissertation Topic: "Measuring
and Predicting the Reading Interests of Adolescents:
The Development and Testing of an Instrument."]
Courses Taught:
LIS
2323: Resources and Services to Young Adults
LIS
2325: Curriculum Resources and Services
LIS
2332: Resources and Services for Adults
LIS
2568: Multicultural Resources and Services
LIS
2774: School Library Media Center Management
LIS
2922: Practicum in School Library Media Programs
LIS
2923: Practicum in School District Library
Media Center Programs
LIS
2963: Update for School Library Media Specialists |
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| Brusilovsky,
Peter |
Associate Professor
Office: 704 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9404
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: peterb (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb/ |
Dr. Brusilovsky obtained the PhD
in Computer Science (1987) and the M.S. in Applied
Mathematics (1983) from the Moscow State University
(Russia). He has had visiting appointments at
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Trier
(Germany), University of Sussex (UK) and Tokyo
Denki University (Japan).
Research Interests:
Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web; user
modeling and personalization; navigation
support in electronic environments; intelligent
tutoring systems and shells; Web-based education;
human-computer interaction.
Teaching Interests:
Web applications, Information Systems, Programming
Languages, Web-based Educational Technology,
Human-Computer Interaction. |
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| Carbo,
Toni |
Professor
Office: 602 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9310
Fax: 412-648-7001
Email: tcarbo (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~carbo/
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Research Interests:
National and international information policy;
Information Ethics; e-government in the U.S.
and European Union; the measurement and use
of information, especially in policy making;
and education of information professionals.
Teaching Interests:
Information Ethics; Information Policy; E-Government
and introductory courses |
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| Cox,
Richard J. |
Chair, Library and Information Science
Program & Professor
Office: 614 IS Building
Phone: (412) 624-3245
Fax: (412) 648-7001
Email: rcox
(at) mail sis pitt edu
Personal Web Page:
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~rcox/ |
Research Interests:
Archives and records management; history of archives,
libraries and the information professions;
public memory and archives, records, and library
administration; archives, records management,
and information policy and ethics.
Education:
BA, cum laude, Towson State College, 1972,
History and English
MA, University of Maryland, 1978, U.S. History
PhD, School of Library and Information Science,
University of Pittsburgh, 1992
Courses Taught:
LIS
2000: Understanding Information
LIS
2220: Records and Knowledge Management
LIS
2222: Archival Appraisal
LIS
2223: Archival Access and Advocacy
LIS
3200: Doctoral Seminar, Historical Studies
(of varying titles and themes)
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| Debons,
Anthony |
Professor Emeritus
Office: 622 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9433
Fax: 412-648-7001
Email: adebons (at) mail
sis pitt edu |
Dr. Debons obtained the Ph.D and
the MS in Psychology from Columbia University
(1954), and BS in Psychology and Sociology from
Brooklyn College (1948).
Research Interests:
Measurement of information and knowledge; the
organization of information and knowledge
for creativity; theories and principles for
the analysis and design of information/knowledge
systems. |
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| Detlefsen,
Ellen |
Associate Professor
Office: 613 IS Building
Phone: (412) 624-9444
Fax: (412) 648-7001
Email: ellen
(at) mail sis pitt edu
Personal Web Page:
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~ellen/ |
Research Interests:
Digital libraries in medicine and health care;
information behaviors of health professionals,
including diffusion of medical knowledge; information
behaviors of healthcare consumers, including
patients, families, and caregivers; information
behaviors of African-American healthcare consumers,
especially using the WWW; structure of medical
languages and literatures; development of educational
programs for health information specialists.
Education:
AB, Smith College, 1968, American Studies
MS, Columbia University, 1969, Library Service
MA, Columbia University, 1973, American History
DLS [doctorate], Columbia University, 1975,
Library Science [Dissertation Topic: Printing
in the Confederacy, 1861-1865: A Southern Industry
in Wartime.]
MPhil, Columbia University, 1978, American
History
Courses Taught:
LIS
2585 --- Health Consumer Resources and Services.
LIS
2586: Health Sciences Resources and Services
LIS
2587: Applications in Medical Informatics |
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| Druzdzel,
Marek |
Associate Professor
Office: 2B13 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9432
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: marek (at) mail sis
pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/ |
Dr. Druzdzel obtained the Ph.D.
in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie
Mellon University (1992), the MS in Electrical
Engineering from Delft University of Technology
(1987), and the MS in Technical Mathematics and
Informatics from Delft University of Technology(1985).
His main project, Environment for Strategic Planning,
has been funded by National Science Foundation,
Air Force Office for Scientific Research, NATO
and HRL Laboratories.
Research Interests:
Decision making under uncertainty, decision-theoretic
methods in intelligent systems, user interfaces
to decision support systems.
Teaching Interests:
Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems;
Research Design; Statistical Analysis of Data;
Data Structures; Database Management; Information
Communication and Coding Theory. |
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| Flynn,
Roger R. |
Associate Professor
Office: 701A IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9428
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: rflynn (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~rflynn/flynn.html |
Dr. Flynn obtained the Ph.D. in
Information Science from University of Pittsburgh
(1978), the MST in Computer Science from Illinois
Institute of Technology (1973), and BA in Philosophy
and Mathematics from Villanova (1962).
Research Interests:
Education in information science; knowledge
representation and inference; database design;
artificial intelligence; systems analysis
and design; data structures; human-computer
interaction; database management systems. |
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| Friedman,
Charles P. |
Professor and Director of
the Center for Biomedical Informatics.
Center for Biomedical Informatics
University of Pittsburgh
UPMC Health System
Suite 8084 Forbes Tower
200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582 |
Contact Information:
Phone: (412) 647-7113
Fax: (412) 647-7190
Email: cpf@cbmi.upmc.edu
Personal Web page:
http://www.cbmi.pitt.edu/personnelDetail.asp?pid=17&id=1&ptype=2&pnavcat=2
Research Interests:
Methods for evaluating biomedical information resources,
how information resources enhance clinical reasoning
and problem solving, applications of information
technology to education, and the dissemination
of innovations within complex organizations.
Education:
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970
MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971
PhD, University of North Carolina, 1977 |
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| Gracy,
Karen |
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Assistant Professor
Office: 620 IS Building
Phone: (412) 624-7679
Fax: (412) 648-7001
Email: kgracy
(at) mail sis pitt edu
Personal Web Page:
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~kgracy/Index.htm |
Research Interests:
Preservation of library and archival collections,
particularly electronic media; archives and
records management, with an emphasis on moving
image archives; intellectual property; social
contexts of information creation, access, and
use.
Education:
BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1991,
English and French
MLIS, University of California, Los Angeles,
1995
MA, University of California, Los Angeles,
1995, Film and Television
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles,
2001[Dissertation Topic: "The Imperative
to Preserve: Competing Definitions of Value
in the World of Film Preservation"]
Courses Taught:
LIS
2000: Understanding Information
LIS
2215: Preservation Management
LIS
2224: Archival Representation
LIS
2674: Digital Preservation
LIS
2970: Moving Image and Sound Archives |
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| He,
daqing |
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Assistant Professor
Office: 618 IS Building
Phone: (412) 624-2477
Fax: (412) 648-7001
Email: daqing
(at) mail sis pitt edu
Home Page: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~daqing/ |
Research Interests:
Information Retrieval and Interactive Interface
Design, Computational Linguistics and Natural
Language Processing, Web Search Analysis and
Adaptive System Design.
Education:
BSc, University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Beijing, China, Computer Science & Engineering,
1992
MSc, University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Beijing, China, Computer Science & Engineering,
1995
PhD, University of Edinburgh,Edinburgh, United
Kingdom, Informatics, 2001 |
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| Hirtle,
Stephen C. |
Professor
Office: 2B01 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9434
Fax: 412-624-5231
Email: shirtle (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~hirtle/hirtle.html |
Dr. Hirtle is Professor and past-chair
of the Department of Information Science and
Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh,
with joint appointments in the Department of
Psychology and Intelligent Systems Program. He
received a bachelor's degree from the Grinnell
College in mathematics and psychology in 1976
and a Ph.D. from University of Michigan in Mathematical
Psychology in 1982. He is the founding co-editor
of Spatial Cognition and Computation, past-president
of the Classification Society of North America
and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Classification.
He has had visiting appointments in the Department
of Geoinformation at the Technical University
of Vienna in Austria and the Department of Computer
Science at Molde College in Norway. He hosted
the Third International Conference on Spatial
Information Theory (COSIT'97), in the Laurel
Highlands, outside of Pittsburgh, PA, in October
of 1997 and co-chaired the NCGIA/Varenius Panel
on "Cognitive Models of Dynamic Phenomena
and Their Representations" in October of
1998 with Alan MacEachren. He directs the Spatial
Information Research Group at the University
of Pittsburgh, which conducts research on the
structure of cognitive maps, navigation in hypertext,
and models for spatial cognition.
Research Interests:
Spatial information; classification; cognitive
science; geographic information systems;
hypertext and multimedia systems; visualization;
neural networks.
Teaching Interests:
Foundations of Cognitive Science; Scaling Theory;
Information Spaces: Representation, Visualization
and Design; Human Information Processing; Scaling
Theory; Seminar on Spatial Cognition; Human
Information Processing; Foundations of Cognitive
Science; Human Information Processing. |
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| Jablonski,
Judith |
Assistant Professor
Office: 609 IS Building
Phone: (412) 624-9459
Fax: (412) 648-7001
Email: judithj
(at) mail sis pitt edu |
Research Interests:
Professional jurisdiction & disciplinarity; Information
organization in public & private contexts; Visual
structure & presentation of knowledge; Information
professionals; Communications media; Research methods.
Education:
B.A. English . Marquette University. Milwaukee,
WI . 1980.
M.A. English. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. 1984.
Graduate Course Work. The Catholic University
of America . Washington D .C., Department of
History . 1984-1987.
M.S.L.S . The Catholic University of America
. Washington D .C., School of Library and Information
Science . 1991.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Macison. School
of Library and Information Studies . 1994 - 2005 |
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| Joshi,
James B. D. |
Assistant Professor
Office: 706A IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9982
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: jjoshi (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Ejjoshi/ |
Dr. Joshi obtained the Ph.D. in
Computer Engineering from Purdue University (2003),
the MS in Computer Science from Purdue University
(1998), and BE in Computer Science & Engineering
from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College,
India(1993).
Research Interests:
Information Systems Security: Role Based Access
Control, XML Security, Distributed Systems,
Multimedia Systems, Systems Survivability.
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| Kabara,
Joseph |
Assistant Professor
Office: 717B IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9417
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: jkabara (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/%7Ejkabara/ |
Dr. Kabara obtained the Ph.D.
in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt
University (1997), the MS in Electrical Engineering
from Johns Hopkins University (1991), and BS
in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University
(1987).
Research Interests:
Design of wireless communication networks to
capacity requirements; Information assurance
in wireless networks; Embedding neural networks
in communication networks;educational libraries
for handheld wireless devices; sensor/actuator
networks.
Teaching Interests:
Fundamentals of Telecommunications; Client-Server & Workstations. |
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| Karimi,
Hassan |
Associate Professor
Office: 713 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-4449
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: hkarimi (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://gis.sis.pitt.edu/geoinformatics/ |
Research Interests:
Geospatial information systems, Grid/distributed/parallel
computing, mobile computing, computational
geometry, in-car navigation systems, spatial
algorithms, and spatial databases. |
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| Kimmel,
Margaret Mary |
Professor Emerita
Office: 604A IS Building
Phone: (412) 624-9436
Fax: (412) 648-7001
Email: mkimmel
(at) mail sis pitt edu
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Research Interests:
Children's and young adult materials and reading
interests; Library service to special groups;
Education for library and information science.
Education:
BA, Dominican University, History
MLS, Dominican University
PhD, University of Pittsburgh [Dissertation Topic:
Professional Striving and the Orientation of
Public Librarians Toward Lower Class Clients.]
Courses Taught:
LIS
2000: Understanding Information
LIS 2001: Libraries and Librarianship
LIS 2002: Resources; Collection, Utilization
LIS 2009: Introduction to Behavior and Communication
Science
LIS 2027: Resources in Folklore
LIS 2072: Public Libraries
LIS
2322: Materials for Children
LIS
2323: Materials for Young Adults
LIS
2324: History of Children's Literature
LIS
2326: Storytelling
PhD Seminars:
LIS 3002: Education for Librarianship
LIS 3027: Seminar in Library Service to Youth
LIS 3084: Seminar in School Library Media Programs
English Department:
ENG 178: Critical Perspectives in Children's Literature |
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| Koshman,
Sherry |
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| Krishnamurthy,
Prashant |
Associate Professor
Office: 718 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-5144
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: prashant (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.tele.pitt.edu/%7Eprashant/ |
Research Interests:
Information and network security, wireless security,
wireless data networks and indoor radio propagation
and channel modeling.
Teaching Interests:
Foundations of Wireless Communications, Mobile
Data Networks, Network Security, Random Signals
and Noise, Radio Propagation and Antennas,
Digital Modulation and Coding
Selected Publications:
2000 |
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| Larsen,
Ronald |
Dean & Professor
Office: 514 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-5139
Fax: 412-624-5231
Email: rlarsen (at) mail
sis pitt edu |
Dr. Larsen earned the Bachelor
of Science degree in engineering sciences at
Purdue University in 1968, the Master of Science
degree in applied physics at the Catholic University
of America in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree in computer
science at the University of Maryland, College
Park, in 1981.
Research Interests:
Digital libraries, interoperability, scalability,
cross-lingual information retrieval, location-aware
computing, mobile computing, computer and
network performance analysis, performance
metrics for distributed digital libraries.
Selected Publications:
2002 | 2001 |
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| Lewis,
Michael |
Professor
Office: 2A00 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9426
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: mlewis (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~cmlewis/ |
Research Interests:
Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction, Visualization,
CSCW, Virtual Environments, Software Agents,
Human Error, Negotiation and E-Commerce.
Teaching Interests:
Human Factors in Systems Design; Interactive
System Design; Human Computer Interaction |
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| Metzler,
Douglas |
Associate Professor
Office: 711 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9414
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: metzler (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dmetzler/ |
Dr. Metzler obtained the Ph.D
in Cognitive Psychology from University of California,
Davis.
Research Interests:
Knowledge representation and reasoning; natural
language and communication; intelligent tutoring
systems; human and machine learning and datamining;
problem solving, reasoning and expert systems.
Teaching Interests:
Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing;
Human Information Processing |
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| Miller,
Rush G. |
Professor and Director of
the University Library System
Office: 271 Hillman Library
Phone: (412) 648-7749
Fax: (412) 648-7887
Email: rgmiller
(at) pitt edu |
Research Interests:
Academic library management; cultural diversity;
strategic planning; personnel issues; staff
development; organizational development.
Education:
BA, Delta State University, 1969
MA, Mississippi State University (History),
1971
Ph.D, Mississippi State University (History),
1973
MLS, Florida State University, 1974
Courses Taught:
LIS
2771: Academic Library Management
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| Munro,
Paul |
Chair, Information Science Program & Associate
Professor
Office: 721 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9427
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: pmunro (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~pmunro/ |
Dr. Munro obtained the Ph.D in
Physics from Brown University (1983), the MS
in Physics from Brown University (1979), and
the BS in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (1977).
Research Interests:
Connectionist systems; neural information processing;
image processing; modeling and simulation;
cognitive science; models of learning; visualization;
genetic algorithms/artificial life.
Teaching Interests:
Artificial Life; Backpropagation: Theory and
Applications; Communication and Coding Theory;
Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing;
Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Artificial
life; Mathematical Communication Theory; Mathematics
Foundation. |
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| Perkoski,
Robert R. |
Chair, Undergraduate Program & Lecturer
Office: 503 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9425
Fax: 412-624-5231
Email: perks (at) pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Eperkoski/ |
Research Interests:
Human computer interaction, distance learning and
intelligent tutoring; telecommunications, knowledge
transfer and representation within informal
and formal groups; Internet companies. |
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| Ray,
Glenn L. |
Assistant Professor
Office: 710 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9470
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: gray (at) mail sis
pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ |
Education:
1/1998-4/2000: MSES, Software Engineering, Florida
A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
6/1985-6/1987: Certified Financial Planner Program,
College for Financial Planning, Denver, CO
9/1976-12/1980: Ph.D., Earth Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
9/1972-8/1976: B.S. (Magna Cum Laude), Geology,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Research Interests:
Software engineering; Object and aspect-oriented
analysis and design; Rule-based systems;
Web services; Formal methods; Geographic
information systems; Distance education.
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| Regan,
Bob |
VISC Project Manager
Office: 707 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9471
Email: regan (at) mail
pitt edu
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Dr. Regan is a consultant, specializing in geographic
information systems (GIS), geophysics, and remote
sensing. His professional career includes senior
level positions in the federal government, major
corporations, and universities. |
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| Shulman,
Stuart W. |
Assistant Professor
Office: 604B IS Building
School of Information Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International
Affairs
Senior Research Associate
University Center for Social and Urban Research
University of Pittsburgh
121 University Place, Suite 600
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-624-3776
Fax: 412-624-4810
Email: Shulman
(at) pitt edu
Personal Home Page |
Research Interests:
American National Government and Public
Policy, Digital Citizenship, eGovernment, and
Service-Learning, Environmental Policy, Civic
Environmentalism, Smart Growth, and Environmental
Justice, Mass Media, Film & Politics, and
the History of Political Communication.
Education:
B.A., Boston University, Political Science
and English, 1989
Ph.D. Program, University of Oregon, English
Department, 1989-1991
Ph.D., University of Oregon, Political Science,
1999
Courses Taught:
LIS
2970: Special Topics: Digital Citizenship
LIS
2970: Special Topics: Film & Politics |
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| Sochats,
Kenneth M. |
Assistant Professor & VISC Director
Office: 707 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9416
Fax: 412-624-3006
Email: sochats (at) sis
pitt edu
Homepage: http://ltl13.exp.sis.pitt.edu/ |
Professor Sochats is pursuing
the Ph.D in Business Administration at University
of Pittsburgh. He obtained the MBA in Business
Administration from University of Pittsburgh
(1975), the MS in Electrical Engineering from
University of Pittsburgh (1973), and the BS in
Electrical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh
(1969).
Research Interests:
Information networks; simulation; databases;
artificial intelligence; management information
systems (MIS); systems analysis and design;
software engineering; network design; microcomputer
applications; graphics.
Teaching Interests:
Computer Graphics; Telecommunications Concepts;
Network Design; Management Information Systems;
Network Management; Advanced Computer Graphics;
Telecommunications Applications. |
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| Spring,
Michael B. |
Associate Professor
Office: 701B IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9429
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: spring (at) pitt
edu
Homepage: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/%7Espring/ |
Dr. Spring obtained the Ph.D.
in Education from University of Pittsburgh, the
MA in Education from University of Pittsburgh,
and BS in Psychology from the College of the
Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. For more than a decade
prior to joining the Department of Information
Science, Dr. Spring served as Associate Director
and then Director of the University External
Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Research Interests:
Distributed systems; client server systems;
collaborative authoring;web services and
e-business; information infrastructure and
e-markets;interactive systems; secure systems;
standards and standardization.
Teaching Interests:
IT Standards; Document Processing; Client Sever
and Workstation Systems; Interactive Systems;
Augmentation; Social Capital. |
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| Taylor,
Arlene G. |
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| Thompson,
Richard A. |
Director, Telecommunications Program & Professor
Office: 717A IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9423
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: rat (at) tele pitt
edu
Homepage: http://www.tele.pitt.edu/
people/faculty_bios.htm#Thompson |
Dr. Thompson obtained the Ph.D
in Computer Science from University of Connecticut
(1971), the MS in Electrical Engineering from
Columbia University (1966), and the BS in Electrical
Engineering from Lafayette College (1964).
Research Interests:
Communications switching systems, especially
photonic switching; intelligent networks;
terminals, user services, and the human interface;
fault tolerance and cellular automata; probabilistic
formal languages.
Teaching Interests:
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering for Telecommunications;
Switching Systems; Voice and Data Telecommunication;
Photonic Communications; Random Signals and
Noise; Intelligent Networks; Designing Computer
and Network Services. |
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| Tipper,
David |
Associate Professor
Office: 715 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9421
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: tipper (at) tele
pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Edtipper/tipper.html |
Dr. Tipper obtained the Ph.D in
Electrical Engineering from University of Arizona
(1988), the MS in Systems Engineering from University
of Arizona (1984), and BS in Electrical Engineering
from Virginia Tech (1980).
Research Interests:
Network design and traffic restoration; procedures
for survivable networks; simulation and queuing
theory with emphasis on transient/nonstationary
behavior, virtual network design, and network
control algorithms.
Teaching Interests:
Queuing Theory; Wireless Communications; Network
Performance; Electronics Communications. |
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| Tomer,
Christinger |
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| Weiss,
Martin B.H. |
Associate Dean
& Associate
Professor
Office: 720A IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9430
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: mbw (at) pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mweiss/new/index.htm |
Dr. Weiss obtained the Ph.D in
Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon
University (1988), MS in Computer, Information
and Control Engineering from University of Michigan
(1979), and BS in Electrical Engineering from
Northeastern University (1978).
Research Interests:
Policy and industry implications of new technologies;
cost modeling of telecommunications technologies;
technical standards and their impact on industry;
the study of technical coordination among
competing firms.
Teaching Interests:
Introduction to Telecommunications; Fundamentals
of Telecommunications; Electronic Communications
II; US Telecommunications Policy; International
Telecommunications Policy; Information Policy;
Economics of Networks; Telecommunications. |
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| Williams,
James G.. |
Professor Emeritus
Phone: 412-624-5139
Email: jellybeanjw (at) tele
pitt edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~jimjim/williams.html |
Dr. Thompson obtained the Ph.D
in Computer Science from University of Connecticut
(1971), the MS in Electrical Engineering from
Columbia University (1966), and the BS in Electrical
Engineering from Lafayette College (1964).
Research Interests:
Communications switching systems, especially
photonic switching; intelligent networks;
terminals, user services, and the human interface;
fault tolerance and cellular automata; probabilistic
formal languages.
Teaching Interests:
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering for Telecommunications;
Switching Systems; Voice and Data Telecommunication;
Photonic Communications; Random Signals and
Noise; Intelligent Networks; Designing Computer
and Network Services. |
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| Zadorozhny,
Vladimir |
Assistant Professor
Office: 706B IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9411
Fax: 412-624-2788
Email: vladimir (at) mail
sis pitt edu
Homepage: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/%7Evladimir/ |
Research Interests:
Scalable architectures for wide-area environments
with heterogeneous information servers, Web-based
information systems, query optimization in
distributed databases, semantic interoperability
in heterogeneous network environments, distributed
object systems and object metamodels. |
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| Znati,
Taieb |
Professor
Office: 6415 Sennott Square
Phone: 412-624-8417
Email: znati (at) cs pitt
edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~znati |
Dr. Znati obtained the Ph.D in
Computer Science from Michigan State University
(1988), the MS in Computer Science from Michigan
State University. He joined the faculty of the
Department of Computer Science with a joint appointment
in the Graduate Program in Telecommunications
at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. Prior
to that he was a member of the Syrius research
group headed by Dr. G. Lelan at INRIA (France),
which investigated issues related to the design
and analysis of distributed data base systems.
Research Interests:
Real-time communication networks and protocols
to support multimedia environments; multimedia
synchronization and presentation; design
and analysis of medium access control protocols
to support distributed real-time systems;
network performance. |
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