GREGORY B. NEWBY
3401 Monadnock Ridge, Efland, NC, 27243. Voice: 1-919-563-9947. Email: gbnewby@ils.unc.edu. Web page: http://ils.unc.edu/gbnewby

Information scientist with 10+ years experience. Software development, information security, systems administration and analysis, human subjects research, interface design. Specialities in information retrieval, data mining and information visualization.

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997 - Present
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL-HILL, CHAPEL HILL, NC.
Assistant Professor School of Information and Library Science. Teaching in all areas of information technology, networking, and communication for graduate and undergraduate students. Research on information systems and information retrieval, information visualization, and information system use.

1991 - 1997
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, URBANA, IL.
Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Taught courses dealing with information technology; networking tools and use; information organization and system design; and user-based design and analysis. Developed a widely used community computing system. Joint appointment in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

1989 - 1991
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SYRACUSE, NY.
Mainframe Consultant, Academic Computing Services. Responded to questions from Unix and VAX/VMS mainframe computer users; taught workshops and prepared documentation. Led conversion team from CMS/MVS to VMS and Unix.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Newby, Gregory B. 2001. "Empirical Study of a 3D Visualization for Information Retrieval Tasks. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. Forthcoming.

Newby, Gregory B. 2001. "Cognitive Space and Information Space." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Forthcoming.

Yang, Kiduk; Maglaughlin, Kelly & Newby, Gregory B. (2000). "Passage Feedback with IRIS." Information Processing and Management 37(3): 521-541.

"The Science of Large-Scale Information Retrieval. Gregory B. Newby. 2000. Presented at the Internet Archive 2000 Colloquium. San Francisco, March 8-9.

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

"Evaluation of a Visualization System for Information Retrieval at the Front and the Back End ." 1999. Presentation at the ASIS Midyear Meeting. Pasadena, California. May 24-26.

"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.

"The strong cognitive stance as a conceptual basis for the role of information in informatics and information system design." Gregory B. Newby. 1998. Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI '98) and the 4th International Conference on Informatics Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '98), pp. 52-61. Orlando, Florida, July 12-16.

Context-Based Statistical Sub-Spaces. Gregory B. Newby. 1997. Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6) Proceedings, pp. 735-746. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 19-21.

"Community System Users and Uses." Gregory B. Newby and Ann P. Bishop. 1996. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, pp. 119-126. Baltimore: October 21-24.

Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier. 1996. Edited with Robin P. Peek. Cambridge: MIT Press. xxii + 364pp.

SYSTEMS BACKGROUND

Programming languages: C, C++, PERL, Java, FORTRAN, Pascal. Scripting in sh/csh, awk, REXX.

Databases: MySQL; Web integration via PHP, ColdFusion, ASP/VB and PERL.

Administration: Full out of the box systems administration with Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Slackware), Solaris (SunOS 4.1 through 8), HPUX (including Xterm setup), IRIX, MacOS. Windows NT (3.51 & 4), DOS3 through Win2000.

Development platforms: Software development (C, C++, FORTRAN, PERL) on Unix and Windows. Unix platforms include Linux, BSDi, Sun, SGI, Cray, IBM (VM/CMS & AIX), IRIX, Sequent and others.

Development tools: gcc/g++; also extensive work with native development environments for Sun, IRIX, Cray, VM/CMS and Windows (MS Visual Developer).

Large-scale deployment: Recipient of an NSF grant to develop and deploy large-scale information retrieval software for Web search engine research.

Planned, implemented, deployed and managed Prairienet, a community computing system in Urbana, Illinois (1992-1997). 14,000 users, hundreds of community information areas. Access via login menu system, Web, FTP; also network news, chatting.

Security: Full host-based Unix security configuration for Linux, Solaris and others, including 3rd party tools (e.g., tripwire, logwatch, tcp_wrappers). Developed and regularly teach a course in information security (INLS187).

Most recently updated: July 2001