Selected Research Projects
- Creation of computer modeling and simulation tools for text-based information retrieval systems, using data from IEEE (computing), INSPEC (physics), UKCIS (computing), etc.
- Computer modeling and simulation of existing information systems networks, e.g. the ARPANET, to create information retrieval systems models for the design of EURONET.
- Design of computer-based systems to enable data structure integration across multiple disparate databases, including management of dissimilar structures with a single search engine. This included development of models of equivalence mapping and the creation of intermediary languages for database management, data retrieval and analysis.
- Design of methodologies and systems to assess the value of information systems, including costing and pricing
- Multiple database design and creation projects for medical imaging, sequencing data (e.g, DNA), and clinical study data.
- Design of metadata and a metadata database system for improving access to 300 numeric and statistical databases to improve the ability of energy analysts to navigate through all recorded knowledge in the field of energy. This included capturing and analyzing data lifecycles, from data processing systems through the publication of findings. Resulted in the first operational metadata system in the world, still in operation today.
- Design of a system, using computer modeling and simulation, for the integration of heterogeneous distributed databases in a multi-level secure environment.
- Analysis of the impact of information and information systems on international development, especially focused on evaluation and measurement for developing countries, and models to assess the value of investing in information systems for a specific country.
- Design of an international computer system to build adaptive, responsive models of treatment for psychiatric illnesses, based on electronic capture of treatment outcomes and real-time modification of treatment protocols. Included extensive consideration of regional cultures as they impact medical professionals' approach to diagnosis and treatment, which require technology systems that not only provide alternate information capture and delivery options, but also result in recommendations of culturally-accepted and possible treatment regimens.
- Development of protocols and policies for research sharing across organizations on local, state and regional levels, including both public and private institutions. Required the development of organizational structures and communication forums to accommodate and facilitate cooperation among organizations with vastly different cultures, organizational structures, perspectives and agendas.
- Review of potential models and systems for the development of a “next generation” national information infrastructure for the physical sciences.
Research Administration
University of Pittsburgh: Director of the Sara Fine Institute for
Interpersonal Behavior and Technology
2001-present
- Initiation and supervision of research projects of the School of
Information Sciences faculty for the Institute
.
University of Michigan: University Chief Information Officer
1996-2001
- Director of the Center for Information Technology Integration
(CITI), an advanced technology research organization that is fully grant supported;
- Initiation of an innovative Strategic Alliance Program with corporations, which federates shared technolgy needs allowing the University to leverage its total resources to take significantly increased advantage of corporate investment and philanthropy in technology-related areas and has resulted in millions of dollars of investment in the University;
- and Creation of the Collaboratory for Advanced Research and Academic Technology (CARAT), an innovative approach to bringing together faculty and staff working on advanced technology applications.
University of Tennessee:
Director, School of Information Sciences (1992-96) &
Director of the Center for Information Studies (1990-95)
- Developed a team of research associates to obtain grants and contracts for research and information science including:
- an assessment of scientific and technical information communication in the U.S. for the National Science Foundation;
- development of a cost finding manual and unit cost formulae for records management activities and services for ARMA International;
- design of the next generation of online information retrieval systems for the second largest vendor of online databases;
- cost and benefit modeling of alternative configurations for text retrieval systems for the Internal Revenue Service;
- development of a manual for evaluating information centers and services for NATO, AGARD;
- development of a manual of performance indicators for public libraries in the UK for the British Library;
- a review of communication by engineers for the Council on Library Resources;
- and several studies for major corporations such as Procter & Gamble, Kodak, Unilever, etc. Directed or was a principal in all of these projects.
- Increased external funding from $35,000 in 1990 to over $4 million in 1995.
King Research Inc: Vice President, Information Systems: Planning, Design & Development
Washington, D.C., 1980-89
- Responsible for one of the company':s three Groups that dealt with research, planning, evaluation, and design of information systems projects.
- Responsible for up to 35 staff members (mostly high-level professionals)
- and directed a variety of projects relative to information systems including:
- the design and implementation of operational metadata systems;
- the investigation of alternative approaches to data structure integration;
- planning for new technologies;
- networking and cooperative technology and information systems planning studies;
- technical and economic assessments of automated bibliographic and numeric systems, graphics and image systems, systems integration, telecommunications networks, CD-ROM applications, and software and hardware applications ranging from microcomputers to very large mainframe computers; preparing technical requirements for requests for proposals (RFPs) for large-scale computer systems;
- and competencies and future educational requirements for information professionals.
Projects of this Group accounted for over two-thirds of total company revenue annually.
Director of Research Computing Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories
London, England, 1978-1979
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Founding Director of the Research Computing Laboratory for the use of computers for research initiatives at the largest independent medical research laboratory in Europe, including recruitment, hiring and training of a computing staff of 15 computer science professionals.
Selected Research Sponsers/Funding Agencies
United States
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Labor
- National Science Foundation
- National Academy of Sciences
- Internal Revenue Service
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institutes of Mental Health
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Office of National Drug Control Policy
- National Commission on Library and Information Science
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Information Security, U.S. Department of Energy
- Special Libraries Association
- States of California, Arizona, Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida
International
- National Physical Laboratory (England), Radiation Physics Division
- U.K. National Health Service
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories
- NATO
- UNESCO
- International Development Research Council of Canada
- British Library, Research and Development Division
Corporate
- AT&T Bell Labs
- Johnson & Johnson, Inc.
- Eastman Kodak, Inc.
- Colgate-Palmolive, Inc.
- DuPont, Inc.
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
- Baxter Health Care, Inc.
- Maxwell Online, Ltd.
- National Rural Electrical Association
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- IBM, Inc.
- Apple, Inc.
- Ameritech, Inc.
