Consulting

and Professional Activities

Conference

and Related Professional Activities

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Ronald L. Larsen

Dean & Professor

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University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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Education:

B.S. (Engineering Sciences) Purdue University 1968

M.S. (Applied Physics) The Catholic University of America 1971

Ph.D. (Computer Science) University of Maryland College Park 1981

Professional Experience:

7/2002 Present

Dean and Professor, School

of Information Sciences

University of Pittsburgh

http://www.ischool.pitt.edu

The Dean is responsible for providing academic and administrative

leadership and for articulating a compelling vision of the School's

role in information science education and research. The Dean is

expected to have a thorough understanding of national trends and

issues in information sciences, significant administrative experience,

a commitment to fund raising, and experience in developing partnerships

both internal and external to the University. The Dean reports directly

to the Provost of the University.

4/1999 7/2002

Executive Director

Maryland Applied Information

Technology Initiative

Statewide initiative to double the enrollments and graduates in

core disciplines of information technology (computer science, computer

engineering, and electrical engineering) by 2004.

A consortium of nine universities, collaborating with Maryland

's community colleges and reaching out to the K-12 sector

University of Maryland College Park

Johns Hopkins University

University of Maryland Baltimore County

University of Maryland Baltimore

University of Maryland University College

Morgan State University

Towson University

Bowie State University

Frostburg State University

University of Baltimore

Sponsored by a grant from the Maryland Higher Education Commission

($12.6M awarded since FY 1999), with substantial contributions from

Maryland industry (>$3M since FY 1999) and related federal government

support (>$10M since FY 1999).

Chair, D-Lib Forum Advisory Board ( www.dlib.org

), supporting the advancement of technology and information

infrastructure for networked digital libraries.

4/2001 7/2002

Deputy Director

Maryland Information and Network Dynamics (MIND) Lab, a component laboratory

of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

(UMIACS)

Co-Principal Investigator, DARPA research contract on Information

Dynamics (2000-03)

Co-Principal Investigator, DARPA research contract on localization

technology for mobile ad hoc networks (2001-02)

Fundamental and applied research in information architecture and

infrastructure supporting information acquisition and dissemination

for military intelligence and crisis intervention

4/1996 9/1999

Assistant Director

Information Technology Office

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Assistant Director, ITO: head of Intelligent Software DivisionApproximate budget: $80M/yrResearch in human computer interaction, human language systems,

distributed collaboration, visualization, software engineering,

information management, and digital librariesProgram Manager: Translingual Information Detection, Extraction,

and Summarization (TIDES)Defined and developed new program approved in February 1999

with 5-year budget over $80MLargest technology development program at DARPA at the time

of my departureResearch in machine translation, cross-lingual information retrieval,

extraction, and summarizationProgram Manager: Information ManagementDefined and developed new 5-year program, approved in September

1996, with a budget of approximately $14M/yr at its peak National Digital Library Initiative (DLI and DLI-2, with NSF,

NASA, NLM, Library of Congress and several other federal agencies)

Research in high performance networked information analysis

environments and interoperable repositories Research interests: semantic interoperability among heterogeneous,

distributed information systems; information visualization and

filtering; translingual information retrieval; registration and

security; classification and federation; and distributed service

assurance

Executive Director, Tipster Text Processing Program (DARPA,

CIA, NSA, NIST) Human Centered Systems (HuCS) working group, National Coordination

Office, Committee on Computing, Information and Communications

(CIC)

11/1988 4/1996

Associate Director for Information Technology

University of Maryland

Libraries

Program Director, University-wide Library Information Management

System (LIMS), known as Victor Managed the development and operation of fully integrated library

automation services to 13 university libraries, statewideDeployed the first university library automation system in the

US to fully integrate services across multiple campuses

EDUCOM (chaired Network Resources Committee)Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), founding steering

committee memberLibrary of Congress Network Advisory Committe

Sailor public information network (concept formation

and system design) http://www.sailor.

lib.md.us/ Maryland distance education task force

University Telecommunications CouncilUniversity Information Technology Advisory Committee Committee on Academic Computing Policy Campus strategic planning committees on computing

9/1985 - Present

Affiliate Associate Professor, Computer Science

Department

University of Maryland, College Park

Systems Design and Analysis Group Co-Principal Investigator, NASA research grant on autonomous

systems (1986-87) Collaboration with Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory on hypertext

applications in libraries (1989) Collaboration with SURA on the development of digital library

infrastructure among SURA institutions (1991-93)

5/1985 - 11/1988

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Computing

University of Maryland

System Administration

Provided administrative computing support to UMSA and for University

System-wide information integration (staff of 25) Responsible for University-wide planning effort to establish

long-term goals and objectives for institutional computing and telecommunications

infrastructure Chaired University Telecommunications Committee

Established the requirements, specifications, and implementation

plan for microwave transmission facilities to western Maryland

for distance education Conceived and defined the University of Maryland Intercampus

Telecommunications System (UMITS), which later evolved into

the current University of Maryland Academic Telecommunications

System (UMATS) Chaired University Computing Center Directors coordinating committee

(administrative and academic)

10/1980 - 5/1985

Program Manager, Computer Science and Automation

Information Sciences and Human Factors Division

Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology

NASA Headquarters, Washington,

DC

Program manager for basic and applied research

initiated and managed NASA research program in aerospace

computer science

managed and expanded NASA research programs in artificial

intelligence and robotics developed, budgeted, planned, directed, advocated, implemented,

and evaluated research and technology programServed on a variety of interagency panels for coordination of

government research

Research and Development Coordination Panel of the OSTP

Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and

Technology (FCCSET) Rapporteur for the Computer and Information Technology Panel

of the Aeronautics/2000 study conducted by the Aeronautics

and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) of the National Research

Council (NRC) (1983-84)

1/1973 - 10/1981

Mathematician, Aerospace Technologist

Operations Support Computing Division

NASA Goddard

Space Flight

Center

Advanced systems planning, design, and analysis

developed statistical models to analyze and project orbital

computation requirements over a 10-year period as a function

of the NASA mission modelconducted research on computing technology trends, proposed

mission support system alternatives constructed optimum overall

ground system development strategy for the 1980's consulted to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

(TDRSS) project to evaluate proposed ground computing system

designs

6/1968 - 1/1973

Mathematician / Aerospace Technologist

Network Computing & Analysis Division

NASA Goddard

Space Flight

Center

Collected and analyzed requirements for a data base

management system for orbital computation and tracking/communications

network operations

Performed a study of data base management systems

for real-time and production-oriented mission operations

Designed a real-time mission support system to broadcast

orbital information on Goddard closed circuit television

Developed intersystem communication standards for

orbital ephemeris

Worked as a mission computer controller supporting

Apollo, Skylab, and many scientific missions

Research Interests:

Digital libraries, interoperability, scalability, cross-lingual

information retrieval, location-aware computing, mobile computing, computer

and network performance analysis, performance metrics for distributed digital

libraries.

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