Resume

Gregory B. Newby

School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Phone: 919-962-8062
Email: gbnewby@ils.unc.edu

Objective To educate students about the value of information and effective ways to interact with information.
   
Education
Ph.D. Information Transfer Syracuse University 1993
 
M.A. Communication SUNY Albany 1988
 
B.A. Communication & Psychology SUNY Albany 1987
   
Work Experience
Assistant Professor School of Information and Library Science U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1997 - Present
 
  Taught courses addressing modern information technologies, the Internet, information retrieval and human information processing. Research addressing large-scale information retrieval systems, information visualization and community information systems.
 
Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science U. Illinois at Urbana - Champaign 1991 - 1997
   
Projects
TeraScale Retrieval Research to address methods for large-scale information retrieval systems based on user-based approaches to human information seeking. 1999 - Present
 
Prairienet Community computing system bringing community information, free local Internet access, training and awareness to Urbana - Champaign. 1992 - 1997
   
Sample Courses
INLS 210-84: Information Security Information security, data integrity, privacy, copyright and information ethics. Case studies, policy and software. Summer 1999
 
Distributed Systems and Implementation All aspects of system administration with Unix / Linux. System setup, security, services. User management. Hardware and software performance. Spring 2000

Recent Publications

"Information Security in Libraries." Gregory B. Newby. 2000. Proceedings of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) Annual Conference. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IRMA. Anchorage, Alaska. May 20-24, 2000. (forthcoming)

"Moving More Quickly Towards Full Term Relations in Information Space." Gregory B. Newby. 1999. Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8) Proceedings Notebook Paper. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 16-19, 1999.

"Information Space Gets Normal." Gregory B. Newby. 1999. Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7) Proceedings, pp. 567-571. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 9-11, 1998.

"An information access model with a unified approach to data type, retrieval mechanism and information need." Gregory B. Newby. 1998. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, 475-484. Medford, NJ: Information Today. Pittsburgh, PA: November 12-16.