Prof. Edward A. Fox

Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU or Virginia Tech), where he serves as Professor of Computer Science. He directs the Digital Library Research Laboratory, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library (CITIDEL). He has been (co)PI on over 90 research and development projects. In addition to his courses at Virginia Tech, Dr. Fox has taught over 60 tutorials in more than 24 countries. He has given more than 50 keynote/banquet/international invited/distinguished speaker presentations, over 105 refereed conference/workshop papers, and over 280 additional presentations.

For the Association for Computing Machinery he is co-editor-in-chief for ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, member of the editorial board for ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and was General Chair for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries '2001. Earlier, he served 1988-91 as a member of the Publications Board and as editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products (responsible for the broad area of electronic publishing including online, CD-ROM, hypertext, interactive multimedia, and developing an electronic library). He also served from 1987-95 as vice chair and then chair of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, from 1992-94 as founder and chairman of the Steering Committee for the ACM Multimedia series of conferences, and from 1995-1998 as founder and chairman of the Steering Committee for the ACM Digital Libraries series of conferences. He served as Program Chair for ACM DL'99, ACM DL'96, and ACM SIGIR'95. He was lead guest editor for Communications of the ACM special issues July 1989, April 1991, April 1995, April 1998, and May 2001.

In the 1980s he was project director for the Virginia Disc series of CD-ROMs as well as for VPI&SU work on interactive digital video. He is Chairman, IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. He is editor for the Morgan Kaufmann Publishers book series on Multimedia Information and Systems. He also serves on the editorial boards of Electronic Publishing (Origination, Dissemination and Design), Information Processing and Management, International Journal on Digital Libraries, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and Multimedia Tools and Applications. He has co-authored/edited 11 books, 73 journal/magazine articles, 35 book chapters, and many reports. Theses are in the areas of digital libraries, information storage and retrieval, hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia, computational linguistics, CD-ROM and optical disc technology, electronic publishing, and expert systems.

See long list of publications and grants at http://fox.cs.vt.edu/cv.htm

Extending work on digital libraries, institutional repositories, educational technology, information storage and retrieval, multimedia information and systems

To any organization working with information