Curriculum Vita
GREGORY B. NEWBY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003 - Present
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS, AK.
Chief Scientist, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center.

Since April 2007 (Acting Chief Scientist March 2005-March 2007). Appointed from 2003-Present as a Research Assistant Professor. Part of ARSC's executive management team. Duties include management of scientific personnel in ARSC, interaction and collaboration with researchers at UAF and elsewhere, budgetary oversight, grantseeking, and development and planning for Center activities. Other activities include research on information systems, data management, Grid computing, information visualization, human-computer interaction and high-performance reconfigurable computing. Graduate student thesis committees. Delopment of software for high-performance computing applications. Systems security, design and maintenance. Direct supervision of over 20 people, including full-time staff members, postdoctoral fellows, and students.

1997 - 2003
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. Curriculum development and innovation, including a new undergraduate major. Advisor to M.S. and Ph.D. students; student project supervision.

1991 - 1997
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, URBANA, IL.
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Taught graduate-level courses dealing with information technology; networking tools and use; information organization and system design; and user-based design and analysis. Founded and developed a widely used community computing system, Prairienet. Assistant Dean (1996-97) for distance education M.S. program. Joint appointment in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as a Senior Research Scientist.

1989 - 1991
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SYRACUSE, NY.
Adjunct Faculty Member, School of Information Studies.

Taught graduate and undergraduate courses dealing with information networking and an introductory course in information technology. Previously worked as a Graduate Assistant. Worked as a Project Coordinator to implement and run a new virtual reality laboratory.

1989 - 1991
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SYRACUSE, NY.
Mainframe Consultant, Academic Computing Services.

User and systems support for Unix and VAX/VMS mainframe systems; taught workshops and prepared documentation. Led conversion team from CMS/MVS to VMS and Unix.

1989
SUNY ALBANY, ALBANY, NY.
Instructor, School of Library Science and Policy.

Taught "Research Methods" and "Analysis of Information Populations" to Master of Library Science (MLS) students.

EDUCATION

WRITTEN WORK AND PRESENTATIONS

Books

Newby, Gregory B. (Ed.). 1997. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Midyear Meeting. Washington, DC: ASIS. 112p.

(Ref.) Peek, Robin P. & Newby, Gregory B. (Eds.). 1996. Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier. Cambridge: MIT Press. 388p.

Newby, Gregory B. 1996. Editor, Author & Compiler, The Internet Yellow Pages. Westport, Connecticut: Meckler and IDG. xliii+908p.

Newby, Gregory B. 1994. Directory of Directories on the Internet. Westport, Connecticut: Meckler. 175p.

Katzer, Jeffrey & Newby, Gregory B. (Eds.). 1989. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting. Medford, NJ: Learned Information. 268p.

Book Chapters

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2002. "Student Laptop Ownership Requirement and Centralization of Information Technology Services at a Large Public University." In: Khosrowpour, Mehdi (Ed.). Annals of Cases on Information Technology v5: 206-217. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Group Publishing.

Newby, Gregory B. 2002. "Information Security in Libraries." In Kisielnicki, Jerzy (Ed.). Modern Organizations in Virtual Communities. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IRM Press: 134-144. Also listed below under Refereed Papers.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1993. "Virtual Reality." In: Williams, Martha E. (Ed.). Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 28. Medford, NJ: Learned Information: 187-229.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1991. "The High Speed Manager's Guide to Information Technology." In: King, Sarah (Ed.). Effective Communication: Theory into Practice. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt: 1111-1126.

Refereed Journal Articles

(Ref.) Sahoo, Bhaskar C.; Oommen, Thomas; Misra, Debasmita; Newby, Gregory B. 2007. "Using the one-dimensional S-transform as a discrimination tool in classification of hyperspectral images." Canadian J. of Remote Sensing 33(6): 551-560.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2006. "Information Retrieval on Computational Grids." J. of the Intelligence Community Research and Development. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency. In Press. 12p.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B.; Greenberg, Jane & Jones, Paul. 2003. "Open Source Software Development and Lotka's Law: Bibliometric Patterns in Programming." J. of the Amer. Society for Information Science and Technology 54(2): 169-178.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2002. "The Necessity for Information Space Mapping for Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web." Information Research 7(4): July 2002. 12p.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2002. "Empirical Study of 3D Visualization Information Retrieval Tasks." Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 18(1): 31-53.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2001. "Cognitive Space and Information Space." J. of the Amer. Society for Information Science and Technology 52(12): 1026-1048.

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

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1997. "Electronic Scholarly Communication." The Canadian Journal of Communication 22(3-4): 511-523.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1994. "Gesture Recognition Based upon Statistical Similarity." Presence (Journal published by MIT Press) 3(3): 236-243.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1994. "The Maturation of Norms for Computer-Mediated Communication." Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy 3(4): 30-38.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

(Ref.) Aboellail, Mohamed; El-Araby, Esam; Taher, Mohamed; El-Ghazawi, Tarek; Newby, Gregory B. 2007. "DNA and Protein Sequence Alignment with High Performance Recofigurable Systems." Proc. of Adaptive Hardware and Systems. Edinburgh, August 6-8. New York: IEEE, pp. 334-341.

(Ref.) El-Araby, Esam; Taher, Mohamed; Abouellail, Mohamed; El-Ghazawi, Tarek; Newby, Gregory B. 2007. "Comparative Analysis of High Level Programming for Reconfigurable Computers: Methodology and Empirical Study." Proceedings of SPL2007 (Southern Programming Logic). Mar del Plata, Argentina: February 26-28. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE.

(Ref.) Kim, Yangwoo P.; Lee, SeungHa; Lee, Pilwoo; Newby, Gregory B. 2006. "Grid Information Retrieval Management System for Dynamically Reconfigurable Virtual Organization." Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing, October 21-23, Hunan, China. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2005. "Building a National Emergency Computing Network." Proceedings of Building Together: Research and Development Partnerships in Homeland Security. Washington, DC: Department of Homeland Security.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. & Franks, Charles. 2003. "Distributed Proofreading." Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. New York: ACM Press.

(Ref.) Li, Bin & Newby, Gregory B. 2002. "Laptop Requirement Usage and Impact in Graduate ILS Education." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting 39: 83-91. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2000. "Will XML and Information Retrieval make Society Transparent?." XML 2000 Conference Proceedings. Alexandria, Virginia: Graphic Communications Association. 11p.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2000. "Information Security in Libraries." Proceedings of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) Annual Conference. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IRMA. 6p. Republished in Kisielnicki, Jerzy (Ed.). 2002. Modern Organizations in Virtual Communities, also listed above under Book Chapters.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1998. "An information access model with a unified approach to data type, retrieval mechanism and information need." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 35: 475-484. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1998. "The strong cognitive stance as a conceptual basis for the role of information in informatics and information system design." 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.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1997. "A Prognosis for Continued Disarray in Informal Scholarly Communication." Proceedings of Scholarly Communication for the Next Millennium: 213-225.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. & Bishop, Ann P. 1996. "Community System Users and Uses." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 33: 119-126. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1996. "Digital Library Models and Prospects." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Mid-Year Meeting: 101-111. Washington, DC: ASIS.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1993. "Virtual Reality: Tomorrow's Information System, or Just Another Pretty Interface?" Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 30: 199-203. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1992. "An Investigation of the Role of Navigation for Information Retrieval." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 29: 20-25. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1991. "Navigation: A Fundamental Concept for Information Systems with Implications for Information Retrieval." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 28: 111-117. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B.; Nilan, Michael S. & Duvall, Lorrain M. 1991. "Towards a Reassessment of Individual Differences for Information System Design: The Power of User-Based Situational Predictors." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 27: 73-82. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

(Ref.) Rosenbaum, Howard & Newby, Gregory B. 1990. "An Emerging Form of Human Communication: Computer Networking." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 26: 300-325. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1989. "User Models in Information Retrieval: Applying Knowledge about Human Communication to Computer Interface Design." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 25: 71-74. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

(Ref.) Nilan, Michael S.; Newby, Gregory B.; Lopatin, Kevin & Paik, Woojin. 1989. "A Hypertext Help System for Desktop Publishing." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting 25: 104-110. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

Other Articles and Proceedings

Fallen, Christopher T. & Newby, Gregory B. 2007. "Collection Selection Based on Historical Performance for Efficient Processing." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007) Proceedings. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. 6p.

Newby, Gregory B.; El-Ghazawi, Tarek; El-Araby, Esam; Taher, Mohamed; Abouellail, Mohamed. 2007. "High Level Programming for Reconfigurable Computers: Readiness for High Performance Computing." Third Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference. Manchester, England, March 28-29.

Fallen, Christopher T. & Newby, Gregory B. 2006. "Partitioning the Gov2 Corpus by Internet Domain Name: A Result-set Merging Experiment." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006) Proceedings. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. 10p.

Fallen, Christopher T. & Newby, Gregory B. 2005. "Logistic Regression Merging of Amberfish and Lucene Multisearch Results." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005) Proceedings. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. 10p.

Gamiel, Kevin; Newby, Gregory B. & Nassar, Nassib. 2003. "Grid Information Retrieval Requirements (GFD.27)." Lamont, Illinois: Global Grid Forum. 18p.

Newby, Gregory B. 2003. "Document Structure with IRTools." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2003) Proceedings. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. pp. 568-577.

Newby, Gregory B. 2002. "Progress in General-Purpose IR Software." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2002) Notebook. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 19-22, 2002. 7p.

Newby, Gregory B. 2001. "Challenges of Multi-Mode IR Software." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-10) Notebook. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 13-16, 2001. 5p.

Newby, Gregory B. 2001. "Information Space Based on HTML Structure." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9) Proceedings. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 19-21, 2000: 9p.

Newby, Gregory B. 2000. "Moving More Quickly Towards Full Term Relations in Information Space." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8) Proceedings. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 16-19, 1999. 11p.

Newby, Gregory B. 2000. "The Science of Large-Scale Information Retrieval." Internet Archive 2000 Colloquium. San Francisco, March 8-9. 6p.

Newby, Gregory B. 1999. "Information Space Gets Normal." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7) Proceedings, pp. 567-571. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 9-11, 1998. 5p

Newby, Gregory B. 1998. "Context-Based Statistical Sub-Spaces." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6) Proceedings, pp. 735-746. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 19-21, 1997. 9p.

Gregory B. Newby. 1997. "Metric Multidimensional Information Space." Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5) Proceedings, pp. 521-536. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Science and Technology. November 20-22, 1996. 15p.

Newby, Gregory B. 1994. "Virtual Reality in the Entertainment Industry." ASIS Bulletin 21: 20-21.

Refereed Presentations

(Ref.) Sahoo, Bhaskar; Oommen, Thomas; Misra, Debasmita & Newby, Gregory B. (2006). "Application of 1D S-Transform in Discrimination Problems in Remote Sensing." Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting December 11-15. San Francisco, California.

(Ref.) Morton, D.; Petrescu E.; Stevens, E.; Newby, G.; Klene, A.; Peterson, R. & Webley, P. (2006). "Challenges in using WRF as an operational and research tool for high resolution NWP in Alaska and Montana." Poster and Extended Abstract at WRF User's Workshop June 19-22. Boulder, Colorado.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2006. "Big Data." Presentation at Univ. of Alaska Internet2 Day. March 23.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B.; Gamiel, Kevin; Nassar, Nassib. 2003. "Secure Information Sharing and Information Retrieval Infrastructure with GridIR." Chen, Hsinchun et al. (Eds.). Intelligence and Security Informatics: Proceedings of the First NSF/NIJ Symposium. New York: Springer-Verlag. p. 389.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2001. "IR Software for Large-Scale Research." Poster session at the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting. Washington, DC: November 5.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2001. "Ethics Among Hackers and Other Programmers." Invited presentation at Reflections|Projections, the national ACM student conference. Urbana, Illinois: August 13.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 2000. "The Hacker's Code." Presentation at Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 2000. New York: July 15.

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

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. "Beyond Glitz and Into Content." Presentation at the ASIS Midyear Meeting. Pasadena, California. May 24-26.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. "Secondary Evidence for User Satisfaction With Community Information Systems." 1999. Presentation at the ASIS Midyear Meeting. Pasadena, California. May 24-26.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1997. "Visualizing Information Space: Spatial Interfaces to Textual Information." Presented at the 21th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fuer Klassifikation. Potsdam, Germany. March 12-14.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. 1992. "Information Technology as the Paradigm High-Speed Management Support Tool: The Uses of Computer Mediated Communication, Virtual Realism, and Telepresence." Presented at the annual conference of the Speech Communication Association in Chicago, Illinois. October, 1992. [Presented on request to ERIC for distribution as an ERIC Document].

(Ref.) Kurtz, Douglas; Snyder, Herbert W. & Newby, Gregory B. 1991. "An Investigation of Chaos in Electronic Publications." Presented at The Third International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics. Bangalor, India.

(Ref.) Newby, Gregory B. "A Research Program for User-Based Information System Design: Towards Resolution of the Representation Problem in Information Retrieval." Presented at the Canadian Society for Information Science Annual Meeting. Kingston, Ontario. May, 1990.

Selected Non-Refereed Presentations

"IRTools Software Overview." 2001. Poster presentation at the 10th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-10). Gaithersburg, Maryland: November 13-16.

"NT and Unix Security." 1998. Panel presentation at the CTC Retreat. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. November 13.

"Can Information Technology Last? Anticipating Obsolescence in Computing." 1998. Presentation at the MOSIS Conference. North Raleigh Hilton. July 21.

"Electronic Journals: Implications for Scholars." 1997. Symposium at the AERA Conference. Chicago, Illinois. March 26.

"Getting our Community on the Net." 1996. Presentation at the Rock Valley College. Rockford, IL. May 3.

"Challenge: To be a Model Community for Use and Access of Cable and Telecommunications." 1996. Presentation to the Champaign-Urbana Joint Telecommunications Commission. Champaign. April 17.

"Prairienet and the Information Superhighway." 1996. Presentation to the Central Illinois Human Resources Group. Champaign. April 9.

"The Life (and Death?) of Print: A Debate." 1995. Live debate with Walter Crawford at the ASIS Annual Meeting. Abstract appears in Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, p. 242. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

"Good News and Bad News for Community Access." 1995. Presented at the Illinois Library System Director's Organization (ILSDO) workshop. Champaign. September 14.

"Computer Systems Used in Virtual Reality." 1994. Presented at AUSI VR '94. Melbourne, Australia. October 28-30.

"The Internet, with Applications for Information Service Providers." 1993. Annual Conference of the Minnesota Library Association. Rochester, Minnesota. October 7.

"Virtual Environments for Visualization and Navigation in Information Space." 1993. Plenary session presented at the ICAT/VE Conference, held at NASA's Johnson Space Center, May 28.

"Navigation as a Fundamental Concept for Information Systems." 1993. Presented to the Human-Computer Interaction Discussion Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at UIUC. February 12.

"Educating the Information Professional." 1992. Panel participant at the ASIS Midyear Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico. May 23.

"WAIS Poster Session." 1992. Data Processing Clinic. Urbana, Illinois. April 20.

"The Role of Computers in Libraries." 1992. Presented at the Great River Library System 25th Anniversary Meeting. Pittsfield, Illinois. June 25.

"New Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction." 1991. Presented to library staff and others at the University of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois. December 14.

"Individual Differences Versus Situational User-Based Predictors of Information Need: A Reassessment." 1990. Presented with Michael S. Nilan. Special session at the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. November 18.

Selected Workshops and Continuing Education

"What Everyone Needs to Know about Computer Security." Presentation at SILS Alumni Day. Chapel Hill, NC. April 30, 1999.

"You, too, can Create a Web Page." Hands-on tutorial at the LAUNC-CH Conference. Chapel Hill. March 14, 1999.

"Keeping Up with the Web." InfoToGo workshop. Chapel Hill, NC. November 14, 1997.

"Dreams and Realities of the Network Age." Presentation at ALS Day, sponsored by the Alliance Library System. Galesburg, IL. November 8, 1996.

"Schools on the Net" Workshop for School District 61 (Decatur). Decatur, IL. April 24, 1996.

"Using the Internet." Workshop at Parkland College in Communications 100. Champaign, April 29, 1996.

"Virtual Reality: Present and Future." Presentation to the Campus Honors Program at the University of Illinois. Champaign. April 2, 1996.

"Free-Net Workshop." Continuing education seminar presented at "The good, the bad, and the Internet." Conference sponsored by the Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility. Chicago. October 8, 1995.

"Future directions for the Internet." Presentation to the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce "Leadership Seminar." UIUC. September 29, 1995.

"Community Networks." Presented at state-wide teleconference sponsored by the Illinois State Library. November 28, 1994.

"Distance Education: Myths and Realities." Panel discussion sponsored by the Division of Extramural Programs at UIUC. November 14, 1994.

"Database Design Issues." Presented to "Information Organization and Access" class at UIUC. September 29, 1994.

"Archiving and Presentation of Government Electronic Resources." Presented to the LEEP-II Symposium at UIUC. May 6, 1994.

"Telecommunications Networks." 3-hour course taught for Medical Library Association (MLA) Continuing Education credit. Urbana, Illinois. November 4, 1993.

"Internet Workshop." Hands-on session for the Southern Ohio ASIS chapter. Cincinatti, Ohio. October 13 and November 8, 1993.

"Information Retrieval Research and Development." Moderator and Panelist on SIG sessions at the ASIS Annual Meeting. Columbus, Ohio. October 28, 1993.

"Internet Basics Workshop." Hands-on workshop for participants at the annual Data Processing Clinic. Urbana, Illinois. April, 1993.

"Virtual Reality: Myth and Design." Sponsored by the ASIS student group at the University of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois. November, 1991.

Book Reviews

Newby, Gregory B. 1996. "Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges." Library and Information Science Research 18(3): 278-280.

Newby, Gregory B. 1995. "Information Sources for Virtual Reality." Information Processing & Management 31: 149-150.

Newby, Gregory B. 1993. "MH & xmh." Online Review.

Newby, Gregory B. 1993. "UNIX Power Tools." Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy 3(4): 58-60.

Newby, Gregory B. 1993. "The Whole Internet." Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy 3(1): 75-78.

Newby, Gregory B. 1992. "Peter Denning's Computers Under Attack." Electronic Networking: Research, Applications, and Policy 2(3): 48-50.

Popular Media

Newby, Gregory B. 1996. "Long Distance on the Internet.." Champaign-Urbana Octopus.

Newby, Gregory B. 1995. "Graphics on the Internet: So What?." Champaign-Urbana Octopus. December.

Newby, Gregory B. 1995. "Putting the Public Footprint on the Digital Revolution." Liberty Tree (online journal).

Dissertation and Thesis Work

Towards Navigation for Information Retrieval. 1993. Ph.D. Thesis. Syracuse, NY: School of Information Studies. 302p.

A Self-Concept Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence, with a Case Study of the Galileo Computer System. 1988. M.A. Thesis, SUNY Albany: Department of Communication. 82p.

RESEARCH FUNDING

"Large-Scale Visual Interaction with Multi-Lingual Multi-Source Textual Data" (Principal Investigator). August, 2002 - August 2003 . 1-year supplement to Terascale Retrieval (below). National Science Foundation supplement award ($210,000).

"3-D Digital Rare Book Project" (Paul Jones, Principal Investigator, Gregory B. Newby, Project Manager). January 2002 - January 2003. 1-year project to provide a 3-D virtual environment for reading digitized rare books. Funded by the E. S. P. Das Educational Foundation ($530,000).

"Terascale Retrieval" (Principal Investigator). September 2000 - August 2003. 3-year project to develop experimental software and methods for information retrieval. National Science Foundation award #CCR-0082655 ($448,000).

"UNC Distance Education Award" (Principal Investigator). March 1999 - December 1999. Project to implement cross-institutional graduate seminars in information science using Internet-based teleconferencing ($10,000).

"UNC Cognitive Science Department Award" (Principal Investigator). June 1998 - December 1998. Project to assess cognitive perceptions of concepts as compared to statistical approximations of those concepts, for the purpose of improved techniques for building information spaces for information retrieval ($3000).

"UNC Research Council Award" (Principal Investigator). April 1998 - March 1999 Project to expand computing capabilities for information retrieval research ($1800).

"Incorporating Multimedia into the Curriculum" (Co-Principal Investigator, with Scott Barker). November, 1997. UNC Chancellor's information technology award. Project to enhance multimedia capabilities in the SILS computer lab and classrooms ($68,000).

Software grant from Microsoft for instructional development. April, 1997. Co-Principal Investigator with Bryan Heidorn. Project to add new software for instruction in GSLIS courses. ($34,000).

"Prairienet." 1993-1997. Solicited and received start-up and on-going funding for community computing system (Free-Net) in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. ($70,000).

"Technology Watch Environmental Scanning." (Principal Investigator). 1994. Funded by Schlumberger to implement and evaluate automatic methods for the identification of relevant items from large collections of free text, such as patent abstracts and network news ($55,000).

"Environmental Hotline Project." (Principal Investigator). 1993-94. Funded by the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL: U.S. Army, Urbana, IL) to develop question-answering procedures for telephone hotline personnel. 1993-94 ($45,000).

"User-Based Study of WAIS." (Co-Principal Investigator with Ann Bishop). 1992. Funded by Thinking Machines Corporation. ($900).

TECHNICAL PROFILE

Substantial experience with computer systems and related technologies includes:

• Programming: C++, C, FORTRAN, Java, Perl. Programming toolkits and packages including LAPACK and the STL.
• Large systems development: Designed and implemented IRTools, an information retrieval toolkit. Designed, implemented and administered Prairienet, a public access community computing system.
• Systems sustainment: With Project Gutenberg, 15+ years of custom development for end-to-end processing of electronic books, with over 20,000 titles published.
• Systems administration: Small, medium and large Unix and Linux systems from HP, IBM, SGI, Sun. Mac & PC. Taught Unix/Linux systems administration since 1995.
• Devices: Implemented glove and shutter glasses device drivers.
• Graphics: Information visualization systems for textual data in OpenGL, Web3D, Java3D and VRML.
• Supercomputing: Programming on vector and MP systems from Cray, IBM, SGI, and Thinking Machines.

STUDENT ADVISING AND SUPERVISION

Current Ph.D. Students

• Chris Fallen (committee member). UAF Department of Physics.
• Bhaskar Sahoo (committee member). UAF Department of Geological Engineering.

Graduated Ph.D. Students

• Bin Li, SILS (committee member). "The Social Construction of Web Appropriation and Use in American Libraries -- An Interpretive and Longitudinal Approach." UNC Summer '05.
• Miles Efrom, SILS (committee chair). "Eigenvalue-based Estimators for Optimal Dimensionality Reduction in Information Retrieval." UNC Spring '03.
• Benjamin Brunk, SILS (committee member). "A Framework for Understanding the Privacy Space." UNC Spring '03.
• Patrick Howell, SILS (committee member). "Statistical Assessment of Differences in Information Retrieval Effectiveness." UNC Fall '02.
• Kiduk Yang, SILS (committee member). "Combining Text-, Link-, and Classification-based Retrieval Methods to Enhance Information Discovery on the Web." UNC Summer '02.
• William Scott Brown, Journalism (committee member). "Web Privacy." UNC Spring '02.
• Hwi-Man Chung, Communication Studies (committee member). "Advertising on the Web." UNC Fall '01.

Master's Papers at UNC

• Ward, Jewel (MSIS 2003). "A Quantitative Analysis of Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) Usage in Data Providers Registered with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI)."
• Allgood, Tammy (MSIS, 2002). "Privacy on the Web."
• Lu, Xiaoran (MSIS, 2002). "INTRAH Web Implementation."
• Kim, Minjeong (MS JOMC, 2002). "The Right to Anonymity on the Web."
• Wang, Yuehong (MSIS, 2002). "AIMS Online Testing System, an interactive web-based testing system for medical school courses."
• Warren, Nicki (MSIS, 2002). "Website log analysis: Approaches for the Library of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences."
• Blue, Cynthia (MSIS, 2001). "An XML DTD for Project Gutenberg."
• Doupe, Kevin (MSIS, 2001). "StruML: An XML based file format for the mark-up of simple sheet music."
• Fong, Allison (MSIS, 2001). "What secure electronic signature technologies are permitted under the E-sign Act and UETA, and does each method provide adequate protection against electronic fraud?."
• Gee, Steven (MSIS, 2001). "An evaluation of the CashHunters.com Web site."
• Hall, Robert (MSLS, 2001). "A Web Based Data Entry and Reporting Tool."
• Hon, Angela (MSIS, 2001). "Oracle8i with Java/XML. Does It Work?"
• Morningstar, Jason (MSIS, 2001). "Gallows Variants as Null Characters in the Voynich Manuscript."
• Toney, Hannah (MSIS, 2001). "Intranets as a tool for communication, collaboration and knowledge management."
• Vaughn, Thomas Allen (MSIS, 2001). "Carolina EPI."
• Wilhelm, Gary (MSIS, 2001). "Deployment and migration to Windows 2000 in a heterogeneous university systems environment."
• Brannon, Chris (MSIS, 2000). "Mk_accounts: an enterprise-wide account management tool for Unix operating systems."
• Clarke, Kevin (MSIS, 2000). "Open software and the library community."
• Davis, Leah (MSIS, 2000). "X-Databases--The Integration of XML into Enterprise Database Management Systems."
• Green, Daniel (MSIS, 2000). "An electronic commerce solution for Physics Laboratory Managers."
• Middleton, Michael (MSIS, 2000). "The online help system: does it help it help or hinder information technology professionals who provide desktop support?"
• Neu, Noelle (MSIS, 2000). "A comparative analysis of how the technological innovativeness of web sites varies across four industries."
• Pretzloff, Robyn (MSIS, 2000). "A new method of training computing lab assistants."
• Wilson, James (MSIS, 2000). "The use of survey data in privacy research."
• Burgess, Tara (MSIS, 1999). "Self-reported reasons for copyright infringement on the web."
• Fiorentino, Julie (MSIS, 1999). "An examination of information-seeking behaviors of college and university faculty members for the betterment of user-oriented information services."
• Mitchell, Michael (MSIS, 1999). "Web development: an approach for UNC's Student Aid Office."
• Peay, T. Anthony (MSIS, 1999). "NT 4.0 or Netware 5.0: which is the better network operating system?"
• Van Duinen, Edwin (MSIS, 1999). "Using XML for EDI."
• Zutshi, Rajiv (MSIS, 1999). "Measuring relational database server transaction speeds with the AS3AP benchmark."
• Colaric, Susan (MSLS, 1998). "Students Who Do Not Currently Read Traditional Reserve Readings and Their Attitudes Toward Electronic Reserve."
• Dean, Jackie (MSIS, 1998). "The Effective Communication of Copyright and Restriction Information on Manuscript Repository Websites."
• Jordy, Matthew (MSIS, 1998). "The Impact of User Support Needs on a Large Academic Library's Workflow as a Result of a Laptom Check Out Program."

AWARDS AND HONORS

2007. Synplicity Best Paper Awards for El-Araby, Esam; Taher, Mohamed; Abouellail, Mohamed; El-Ghazawi, Tarek; Newby, Gregory B. 2007. "Comparative Analysis of High Level Programming for Reconfigurable Computers: Methodology and Empirical Study." Proceedings of SPL2007 (Southern Programming Logic). Mar del Plata, Argentina: February 26-28. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE.

2002. The Stockholm Challenge Award for Project Gutenberg.

2001. The Tech Museum Awards Finalist.

COMMITTEES AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

National/International

• The 6th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE 2008), technical program ommittee member.
• Little Alaska Weather Modeling Symposium program committee. 2008.
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics program committee. 2007-8.
• Great Alaska Weather Modeling Symposium program committee. 2007.
• External Advisory Board member, Community Driven Improvement of Globus Software project. 2006-
• Global Grid Forum, Standards Editor, 2004-
• Conference committee member for the Data Environments Workshop at the Global Grid Forum 10 meeting in Berlin (March 2003).
• Co-Chair of the Grid Information Retrieval Working Group (GIR-WG in the Global Grid Forum, 2003-
• Conference committee member for the Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2003-/li>
• Program Committee, IRMA 2003
• Director and CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. 2001-
• ASIS SIG/ED Chair, 1998-2000.
• Program Committee, ASIS Annual Meeting 1998.
• UMI/ASIS Dissertation of the Year award committee, 1997-1998.
• Member, Interactive Learning and Information System (ILIS) Review Board 1998.
• Co-Chair, ASIS Mid-Year Meeting 1997.
• Chair, ASIS Awards and Honors Committee, 1993-1995.
• Co-Founder of Prairienet, the Free-Net of East-Central Illinois.
• Organizing Committee member for the ASIS Mid-Year meeting of May, 1994.
• ASIS Electronic Publishing Task Force member, 1993-94.
• Chair of ASIS SIG/SRT (Special Interest Group on Storage and Retrieval Technologies). 1992-93; 1994-96.
• Maintainer of VIRTU-L, a mailing list to redistribute sci.virtual-worlds, a Usenet newsgroup; 1991-1998.
• Initiated and planned a special session on "User Modeling in Information Systems" for the 1990 ASIS meeting.

Refereeing

• Referee for ACM SIGGRAPH, 1997.
• Referee for ACM SIG/IR meeting, 2004-2005.
• Referee for Algorithmica, 1993-1994.
• Referee for ASIS Annual Meeting Contributed Papers, 1992, 1995, 1998.
• Referee for Electronic Networking: Resources, Applications, and Policy, 1992-1994.
• Referee for Future Generation Computer Systems, 2006.
Referee for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2006.
• Referee for Information Processing and Management, 1999.
• Referee for Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) conference, 2000, 2001. Conference program committee: 2001.
• Referee for Information Research, 2002, 2006.
• Referee for Information Systems Frontiers, 2001.
• Referee for International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies, 2004.
• Referee for The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS) conference, 2005.
• Referee for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992-2006.
• Referee for the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2004-2006.
• Referee for Library Quarterly, 1994, 1995.
• Referee for the National Online Meeting, 1993.
• Panelist for National Science Foundation grant reviews (NSF-ITR program, 2001; CISE 2005; SBIR, 2001-2002, 2004-2007).
• Referee for SCI/ISAS 1999-2005.

Academic Service

• Fairbanks
  • UAF internal program review committee member, 2006.
  • Supervised student employees and interns, 2003-2006.
  • Chief Scientist search committee member, 2004.
• Chapel Hill
  • Provost's Task Force on Undergraduate Education, 2000-2001.
  • Nominating Committee, 2002.
  • Administrative Board of the Library, Scholarly Communication Committee Chair, 1999-2002.
  • Undergraduate Committee, 1998-2000 (chair); 2001-2002 (member); 2002-2003 (chair).
  • Ad hoc Undergraduate Major Committee, 2000-2002. Authored proposal for new undergraduate major in information science (approved by UNC February 8, 2002).
  • Faculty Information Technology Advisory Committee (FITAC), 1998-1999, 2002-2003.
  • Personnel Committee, 1997-1998; 2000-2002.
  • Information Technology Committee, 1997-1998; 2000.
• Urbana-Champaign
  • Assistant Dean, 1996-1997.
  • Curriculum Committee (Chair) 1992-1994; 1995-1996.
  • Information Technology Planning Sub-Committee (Chair), 1995-1996
  • Admissions Committee (Chair), 1994-1995.
  • GRADS Committee, 1994-1995.
  • UIUC Bibliographic Instruction Committee, 1994-1995.
  • UIUC Network Applications and Policy Committee 1993-1994.
  • UIUC Security Committee for IO Direct system, 1993.
  • Promotion and Tenure Guideline Review Committee, 1992.
  • ASIS Student Group Faculty Liaison, 1991-1994.
  • Curriculum Sub-Committee for Information Science, 1991-1992.
  • Advanced Technologies Committee, 1991-1992.
• Syracuse
  • Personnel Committee 1990-1991.
  • Search Committee 1990-1991.
  • Curriculum Committee 1989-1990.
  • PhD Liaison Committee 1988-1989.

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• Global Grid Forum (GGF)
• Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), 2004.
• Linux Certified from the Linux Professional Institute, 2001.

TEACHING HISTORY

Fall 2004

CS 205, "Intermediate Programming." Using Perl for programming in text processing, Web-database integration, and other applications.

Spring 2003

INLS 181, "Internet Applications." Significantly updated as a new intermediate level course in Web design.

INLS 183, "Distributed Systems and Analysis." Unix and Web server installation, administration, management, upkeep, and evaluation.

Fall 2002

INLS 181

INLS 183

Spring 2002

INLS 102, "Information Tools." Tools and concepts for information use. Information literacy, microcomputer use and maintenance, microcomputer applications, and networked information services. (New course).

INLS 187, "Information Security." Information security, data integrity and privacy. Contemporary and historical issues.

Fall 2001

INLS 183, "Distributed Systems and Administration."

INLS 181, "Internet Applications." All aspects of Internet use, management, training, and applications.

Summer 2001

INLS 181, "Internet Applications."

Spring 2001

On research leave at UNC, no teaching duties

Fall 2000

INLS 183, "Distributed Systems and Administration."

INLS 187, "Information Security." (Formerly INLS 210-84).

Spring 2000

INLS 181, "Internet Applications."

INLS 183, "Distributed Systems and Administration." (Formerly INLS 283).

Fall 1999

INLS 180, "Human Information Processing." Previously called "Communication Processes." Newly revised course.

INLS 181, "Internet Applications."

Summer 1999

INLS 210-84, "Information Security." Policy, case studies, software and systems for information security, privacy and data integrity.

Spring 1999

INLS 80, "Data Communication." All aspects of Internet use, management, training, and applications.

INLS 283, "Distributed Systems and Administration."

Fall 1998

INLS 181, "Internet Applications."

INLS 382, "Doctoral Communication Seminar." Communication theory, theory construction, theory evaluation, methodological issues, and the implication and role of communication theory for information and library science. First time taught.

Summer 1998

INLS 210-84, "Information Security." Policy, case studies, software and systems for information security, privacy and data integrity. Newly developed course.

Spring 1998

INLS 283, "Distributed Systems and Administration." Unix and Web server installation, administration, management, upkeep, and evaluation. Newly developed course.

INLS 80, "Data Communication." All aspects of Internet use, management, training, and applications.

Fall 1997

INLS 80, "Data Communication." All aspects of Internet use, management, training, and applications. First time taught.

Spring 1997 (University of Illinois)

LIS 353, "Using Networked Information Technologies." All aspects of use, teaching, management, and evaluation of networked information systems. Focus on Internet applications; emphasis on Unix skills.

Summer 1996

LIS 415, "Information Technology." Principals of technology management including LANs, microcomputer configuration and purchase, database and CDROM software, evaluation, pricing, and maintenance. Newly developed course.

Spring 1996

LIS 450 CC, "Telecommunications." Concepts and use of remote communication systems; focus on Internet tools. Taught each semester. Spring and Fall semesters 1995 utilized distance learning technologies of the Division of Extramural Programs at UIUC to bring instruction to students around the state.

LIS 450 DS, "Implementation for Distributed Information Systems." Selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of tools for remote information retrieval; focus on current Internet tools. Spring 1996; Summer 1995. Newly developed course.

1994 - 1995

LIS 415, "Library Automation." Survey of information technologies and their applications. Hands on use and extensive analysis and project work. Fall 1995.

LIS 370, "Design and Analysis of Information Systems." Survey of issues concerned with information system selection, implementation, and evaluation. Focus on use of technology tools and research methodology and analysis. Fall 1994. Newly developed course.

LIS 371, "Projects in the Design and Analysis of Information Systems." Continuation of projects from LIS 370 (1994). Spring 1995. Newly developed course.

LIS 450 CC, "Telecommunications." The use of the Internet and related technologies in information organizations. Spring 1994; Spring, Summer & Fall, 1995.

1993

LIS 450 CC, "Telecommunications." The use of the Internet and related technologies in information organizations. Spring, also taught in fall using Extramural Programs' distance video teleconferencing system.

LIS 416, "Advanced Library Automation." Pascal programming for information system applications. Summer.

1992

LIS 450 CC, "Telecommunications." The use of the Internet and related technologies in information organizations. Fall. Newly developed course.

LIS 415, "Library Automation." Introduction to the technologies of modern information organizations, their selection, implementation, and use. Summer, Fall.

LIS 416, "Advanced Library Automation." Pascal programming for information system applications. Summer. Newly revised course.

1991

LIS 415, "Library Automation." Introduction to the technologies of modern information organizations, their selection, implementation, and use. Fall. Newly revised course.

LIS 450 C, "Interactive System Design." Seminar in the human-computer interface. Fall. Newly revised course.

1990-1991 (Syracuse University)

IST 553, "Information Networking." Survey of history and use of information networks, telephone, BITNET, Internet. Hands-on use of networking software. Summer 1991; Fall 1990. Newly revised course.

IST 190, "Introduction to Information Systems." Undergraduate major core course. Fall 1990; spring 1991.

1989 (SUNY Albany)

LISP 550, "Research Methods." Survey of methodological and analytical tools. Summer 1989.

LISP 551, "Analysis of Information Populations." Introductory statistics. Summer 1989.

Most recently updated: March 2008