Professional Experience July 1992 - present
Dean, School of Information. Leading a special initiative at the
request of the faculty and University President and Provost, to
restructure the School of Information and Library Studies into the
School of Information. University Regents approved the new school on
March 15, 1996. The intent of SI is to broaden and deepen the focus
of the school to offer research and education experiences to produce
the information systems and services specialists required for the
future. Focus is on meeting human information needs in the era of the
world-wide digital library and collaboratory. SI is to be a catalyst
for a broad array of multi-disciplinary activities related to future
information technology systems and organizational forms. Major
sponsorships for these initiatives are coming from foundations and
industry.
Director and Co-PI of NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Research Initiative. This is a partnership between the Federal government, the University, and the private sector. We are conducting multi-disciplinary basic research, building a digital library testbed, and evaluating it in use in schools and libraries. $4M plus $4M co-investment over 4 years.
Director, Kellogg Foundation grant to restructure ILS education.
Director and Co-PI of a multi-disciplinary, experimental research project to create and evaluate an advanced information systems to support remote collaboration in space science research. This Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC) Project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation for 5 years at a level of $4M.
Serving on numerous national committees of the NSF, AAU, ARL, Library of Congress, Council of Library resources, Council on Preservation and Access to help define the vision and plan of action to achieve the national digital library.
August 1992 - July 1992
Participated in establishing a multi-disciplinary collaboration
systems research group. Chaired the University task force on
high-performance computing and visualization. Established a seminar
course in computer-integrated digital media.
July 1991 - August 1992
Sabbatical leave spent at several industrial and university research
laboratories. Participated in research activities in integrated
digital video-computing systems with application to advanced
information systems, especially those that support distributed group
work.
January 1989 - July 1991
Interim Dean, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan.
Continued path of rebuilding faculty and rapid growth in sponsored
research. Personally supported the UM student Sunrunner team which
designed, built, raced, and won the national solar race car
competition.
October 1981 - January 1989
Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, The University
of Michigan. Member of administrative core and participated in all
aspects of College administration. Specific responsibilities included
stimulating large-scale research programs, building industrial
research partnerships, assisting faculty with research related
issues, and responsibility for building the College distributed
computing environment.
June 1981 - Present
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The
University of Michigan. Research in distributed computer architecture
and collaboration technology.
September 1975 - June 1981
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The
University of Michigan. Specialized in high-performance computing
architecture. Built eight different experiemental machines.
July 1971 - September 1975
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, The University of
Michigan. Specialized in high-performance computing architecture.
Built eight different experiemental machines.
February 1971 - June 1972
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
October 1970 - February 1971
Electronic Engineer, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak,
Silver Spring, Maryland. Part-time: Assistant Professor, Department
of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland. Taught switching
theory.
July 1970 - October 1970
Captain, U.S. Army Reserve. On Active Duty for Training. Attended
Signal Officer Basic Course, Fort Gordon Georgia.
September 1965 - June 1970 (except summer 1967)
Graduate student and half-time research assistant, Department of
Computer Science, University of Illinois. Designed high-speed
arithmetic units for ILLIAC III Pattern Recognition Computer.
Conducted research in the area of computer arithmetic. Assisted in
teaching introductory course in computer design and advanced course
in computer arithmetic.
Summer 1967
Electronic Engineer, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Developed data
on digital graphics equipment.
Summer 1965
Acting Director, Computer Center, Bucknell University. Responsible
for general administration for the center. Instructor in programming
for NSF High School Teacher Program.
September 1962 - May 1965
Student and part-time computer center employee, Bucknell University.
Designed and constructed an on-line digital clock for the IBM 1620.
Summers 1963 and 1964
Electrical Engineering Aid, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Assisted
in trouble-shooting digital data acquisition system and in the
development of data reduction programs.
Summer 1962
Engineering Aid, District of Columbia Highway Department. Assisted in
development of computer model of traffic flow in D.C. area.