VT ACM Chapter Presentation by Professor Fox

Brief Bio

1. Married, 4 sons, 3 grandsons, 1 granddaughter, at VT CS since 1983
2. MIT ugrad, Cornell grad
3. Lived in NY, MA, SC, Nigeria; visited over 30 countries
4. Member of CRA Board; Executive Director NDLTD
5. Adviser for VT Reiki Club, Wed 5:30-8:30pm in Torg 1040
6. Moderator for Virginia Tech Computer Science group at LinkedIn

Classes

1. CS4624: Multimedia, Hypertext, and Information Access
2. CS5604: Information Storage and Retrieval
3. CS6604: Digital Libraries

Research

1. CINET Middleware for Network Science: Clouds, Digital Libraries
2. CTRnet: Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network
3. Ensemble: Computing Portal for Educational Resources
4. Fingerprints: NIJ grant on sufficiency; BAE grant on training

Opportunities

1. Classifying Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ML: Venkat Srinivasan, svenkat at vt.edu)
2. e-Science with Digital Libraries (Sim: Jonathan Leidig, leidig07 at cs.vt.edu)
3. Extracting References from ETDs and other Documents (Text Extraction: Sung Hee Park, shpark at vt.edu)
4. Qatar Digital Library Institute (MT, NLP: Tarek Kanan, tarekk at vt.edu)
5. Second Life: Digital Preserve (VR: Spencer Lee, zamfir at vt.edu)
6. Topic Identification and Ontologies (Web Knowledge: Seungwon Yang, seungwon at vt.edu)
7. Any of our projects - visit 2030 Torg., Digital Library Research Lab

Author: Edward A. Fox
Office: 2160G Torgersen Hall, 231-5113
Last Updated: 2011/10/18
Email: Please send comments and suggestions to: fox@vt.edu
(c) Copyright 2011 Edward A. Fox