Gregory B. Newby received his undergraduate degree with majors in
Communication and Psychology, and his Master's degree in
Communication, at the State University of New York at Albany.  He
originally studied mass media and organizational communication, but
took a new focus after starting to make regular use of BITNET in the
early 1980s and later, the Internet.  Newby examined issues
surrounding new electronic communication media use during his PhD
studies at Syracuse University.  While at Syracuse, he developed a new
virtual reality laboratory and worked on development of a visual
interface to information space as part of his dissertation.  After his
PhD, Newby took a position as Assistant Professor in the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science at the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign from 1991-1997.  He had a joint
appointment as a senior research scientist at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications.

At the University of Illinois, Prof. Newby worked extensively to
update the information technology curriculum and to integrate
education of technological skills for all students.  During this time,
he founded Prairienet, a public-access community computing system.  He
was also given responsibility to develop a new technology-based
distance education option for the MS degree at UIUC.  He has written
on information retrieval, human-computer interaction, electronic
publishing, uses and norms for the Internet, and new technologies for
business use.  Newby has taught courses dealing with Internet use
since 1988.

From 1997 to 2003, Newby was an Assistant Professor in the School of
Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill.  His research interests there focused on information
retrieval, information space, human-computer interaction, and impacts
of new electronic media.  His courses included "Information Security,"
"Distributed Systems and Administration," and "Internet Applications."
Prof. Newby received a 3-year NSF grant to develop an information
retrieval software toolkit for large-scale experimentation with World
Wide Web.

Effective May 2003, Dr. Newby joined the staff of the Arctic Region
Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks as a
research faculty member.  His work there continues to include emphasis on
information retrieval and access, especially information retrieval on
the computational grid (GridIR).  Other research areas are data
mining and fusion, integration of large-scale systems, and
manipulation and presentation of massive collections of text.

Since 1991, Newby has worked with Project Gutenberg to create and
distribute free electronic eBooks.  In 2001, he took on the volunteer
role as CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
Since that time, he has led Project Gutenberg in new collaborative
work and new data types, supervised personnel, sought and received
external funding, and worked to triple the size of the Project
Gutenberg collection to over 9000 eBooks.

Newby has written or edited 5 books and over 40 articles, has been the
recipient of well over $1million in research funding, and has an
overarching goal of making information and information systems more
useable and accessible to all persons.