General Information

Home: 203 Craig Dr., Blacksburg, VA 24060; +1-540-552-8667
Email: fox@vt.edu
WWW: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/
Directions to Blacksburg

Dept. of Computer Science

Title: Professor
Room: 2160G Torgersen Hall
Spring 2008 Office Hours: Tue 12-3pm, Wed 4-5pm, or by appointment
Phone: +1-540-231-5113
Pager: +1-540-230-6266 (This is a mobile phone with reception almost anywhere in the world. There is no charge for incoming calls when I am in USA.)
FAX: +1-540-231-6075
Computer Account: fox@vt.edu
Address: 2050 Torgersen Hall, Mail Code 0106, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Classes Spring 2008: Honors 2004 - A Digital Library Related to 4/16/07 at Virginia Tech: Tue 5-6:50pm in Torg 1040, final 7-9pm on 3 May, CRN 15238; CS5604 - Information Storage and Retrieval: MWF 9:05-9:55am in Torg 1010, final 7:45-9:45am on 3 May, CRN 11799
Other Meetings for Spring 2008:
- College Curriculum Committee - Thu 11am, Randolph 117A
- CS Faculty meetings - Fri 3-5pm periodically
- CS Head Search - Mon 11am, Torg 2030
- CUC - Thu 3:30pm, 230A Student Services Building
- CUSP - Mon 3pm, 230 Student Services Building
- DLRL (Digital Library Research Laboratory) - Wed 11am, Torg 2030
- Microsoft Tablet PC project - Tue 9am, Torg 2030
- NSF DL416 - Fri 10am, Torg 2030
- NSF LIKES - Wed 12:30pm, Torg 2030
- NSF Personalisation - Fri 11am, Torg 2030
- UPC - Fri 3pm (alternating with Faculty Meetings), Torg 2030
- VT Reiki Club - Wed 5:30-8pm, Squires

Digital Library Research Laboratory (DLRL)

Title: Director
Room: 2030
Phone: +1-540-231-3615
Address: ACITC/Torgersen Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061

Short Biographical Sketch

See a full CV (relatively current). See also a somewhat older and shorter version: 2 page CV in PDF

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 and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. He has been (co)PI on over 100 research and development projects. In addition to his courses at Virginia Tech, Dr. Fox has taught over 70 tutorials in more than 25 countries. He has given more than 60 keynote/banquet/international invited/distinguished speaker presentations, about 140 refereed conference/workshop papers, and over 250 additional presentations.

For the Association for Computing Machinery he was founder and co-editor-in-chief for the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, is a member of the editorial boards for ACM Transactions on Information Systems and ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 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 - and co-chair for CIKM 2006 and ICADL 2005. 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 was editor for the Morgan Kaufmann Publishers book series on Multimedia Information and Systems. He also serves on the editorial boards of Information Processing and Management, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and Multimedia Tools and Applications. He served as Chairman of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. He has co-authored/edited 13 books, 83 journal/magazine articles, 37 book chapters, and many reports. These 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.

Images of Slides

Envision PIs and some students in Multimedia Lab, McB 110

Publications

Selected Old Papers (see longer list in full CV):

WWW '94: Fox & Barnette

Improving Education through a Computer Science Digital Library with Three Types of WWW Servers. In Proc. Second Int'l WWW'94: Mosaic and the Web, Chicago, IL, Oct. 17-20, 1994.

WWW '94: Maly, French, Selman & Fox

Wide Area Technical Report Service. In Proc. Second Int'l WWW'94: Mosaic and the Web, Chicago, IL, Oct. 17-20, 1994.

NORDINFO '94

Images of Digital Libraries. Paper Version of Keynote Address for NORDINFO Conference: Digital transfer of images, Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 10-11, 1994

Online TRs:

QUIZIT (draft report in PDF)

Draft paper on QUIZIT system of L. Tinoco et al. for interactive education

ODU TR_94_13

Wide Area Technical Report Service

ODU TR_92_44

Wide Area Technical Report Service

TR-89-10

An O(n log n) Algorithm for Finding Minimal Perfect Hash Functions

TR-88-30

A More Cost Effective Algorithm for Finding Perfect Hash Functions

TR-88-25

A Frame-Based Language in Information Retrieval

TR-88-24

Creation of a Prolog Fact Base from the Collins English Dictionary

TR-88-22

A Review of Publishing and Access Issues for Optical Discs and CD-ROM's

TR-88-06

Implementing an Intelligent Retrieval System: The CODER System, Version 1.0

Other activities and interests:

Reading, photography
Healing / Reiki (Level III practioner and teacher, see local page) / Acupressure (see local page)
Parent (4 sons) and grandparent (2 grandsons)

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