Contributors
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Modern Information Retrieval Contributors |
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In alphabetical order:
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Elisa Bertino
bertino@dsi.unimi.it |
Elisa Bertino is professor of computer science in the Department of
Computer Science of the University of Milan where she heads the Database
Systems Group. She has
been a visiting researcher at the IBM Research Laboratory (now Almaden) in
San Jose, at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation in
Austin, Texas, at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
Her main research interests include object-oriented databases, distributed
databases, deductive databases, multimedia databases, interoperability of
heterogeneous systems, integration of artificial intelligence and database
techniques, database security. In those areas, Prof. Bertino has published
several papers in refereed journals, and in proceedings of international
conferences and symposia. She is a co-author of the books ``Object-Oriented
Database Systems - Concepts and Architectures" 1993 (Addison-Wesley
International Publ.), ``Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems"
1997 (Kluwer Academic Publishers), and ``Intelligent Database Systems"
forthcoming (Addison-Wesley International Publ.). She is or has been on the
editorial boards of the following scientific journals: the IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the International Journal
of Theory and Practice of Object Systems, the Very Large Database Systems
(VLDB) Journal, the Parallel and Distributed Database Journal, the Journal
of Computer Security, Data \& Knowledge Engineering, the International
Journal of Information Technology.
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Eric Brown
ewb@us.ibm.com |
Eric Brown is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, since 1995. Prior to that he was a
Research Assistant at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He hods a B.Sc. from the
University of Vermont and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Eric conducts research in large scale information
retrieval systems, automatic text categorization, and hypermedia systems
for digital libraries and knowledge management. He has published a number
of papers in the field of information retrieval.
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Barbara Catania
catania@yoghi.disi.unige.it |
Barbara Catania is a researcher at the University of Milan, Italy.
She received a MS degree in Information Sciences in 1993 from the
University of Genova and a PhD in Computer Science in 1998 from
the University of Milano, Italy.
She has also been a visiting researcher at the European Computer-Industry
Research Center, Munich, Germany.
Her main research interests include multimedia databases,
constraint databases, deductive databases, and indexing techniques
in object-oriented and constraint databases.
In those areas, Dr. Catania has published
several papers in refereed journals, and in proceedings of international
conferences and symposia.
She is also a co-author of the book ``Indexing Techniques for Advanced
Database Systems" 1997 (Kluwer Academic Publishers).
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Christos Faloutsos
christos@olympos.cs.umd.edu |
Christos Faloutsos received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical
Engineering (1981) from the National Technical University of
Athens, Greece and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science from the University of Toronto, Canada. Prof.
Faloutsos is currently a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon
University. Prior to joining CMU he was on the faculty of
the department of Computer Science at University of Mary-
land, College Park. He has spent sabbaticals at IBM-Almaden
and AT\&T Bell Labs.
He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by
the National Science Foundation (1989), two ``best paper''
awards (SIGMOD 94, VLDB 97), and three teaching awards. He
has published over 70 refereed articles, one monograph, and
has filed for three patents. His research interests include
physical data base design, searching methods for text, geo-
graphic information systems indexing methods for multimedia
databases and data mining.
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Elena Ferrari
ferrarie@dotto.usr.dsi.unimi.it |
Elena Ferrari is an assistant professor at the Computer Science
Department of the University of Milano, Italy.
She received a MS degree in Information Sciences in 1992
and a PhD in Computer Science in 1998 from the University of
Milano, Italy. Her main research interests include multimedia databases,
temporal object-oriented data models, and database security.
In those areas, Dr. Ferrari has published
several papers in refereed journals, and in proceedings of international
conferences and symposia.
She has been a visiting researcher at George Mason University in
Fairfax, Virginia, and at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
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Edward A. Fox
fox@cs.vt.edu |
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 (Virginia Tech), where he serves as
Associate Director for Research at the Computing Center, Professor of
Computer Science, Director of the Digital Library Research Laboratory, and
Director of the Internet Technology Innovation Center. He served as vice chair
and chair of ACM SIGIR from 1987-1995, helped found the ACM conferences
on multimedia and digital libraries, and serves on a number of editorial
boards.
His research is focused on digital libraries, multimedia, information retrieval,
WWW/Internet, educational technologies and related areas.
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Marti Hearst
hearst@sims.berkeley.edu |
Marti Hearst is an assistant professor at the University of California
Berkeley in the School of Information Management and Systems.
From 1994-1997 she was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC.
She received her BA, MS, and PhD degrees in computer science from the
University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Hearst's research focuses
on user interfaces and robust language analysis for information access
systems, and on furthering the understanding of how people use and
understand such systems.
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Gonzalo Navarro
gnavarro@dcc.uchile.cl |
Gonzalo Navarro received his first degrees in Computer Science from ESLAI
(Latin American Superior School of Informatics) in 1992 and from the
University of La Plata (Argentina) in 1993. In 1995 he received his
M.Sc. in CS from the University of Chile, obtaining in 1998 the Ph.D.
degree.
Between 1990 and 1993 he worked at IBM Argentina, on the development of
interactive applications and researching on multimedia and hypermedia.
Since 1994 he works at the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of
Chile, researching on design and analysis of algorithms, textual
databases and approximate search.
He has published a number of papers and also served as referee in
different journals (Algorithmica, TOCS, TOIS, etc.) and conferences
(SIGIR, CPM, ESA, etc.).
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Edie Rasmussen
erasmus@lis.pitt.edu |
Edie Rasmussen is an Associate Professor in the School of Information
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. She has also held faculty
appointments at institutions in Malaysia, Canada and Singapore. Dr.
Rasmussen holds a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and an
M.Sc. degree from McMaster University, both in Chemistry, an M.L.S. degree
from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. in Information Studies
from the University of Sheffield. Her current research interests include
indexing and information retrieval in text and multimedia databases.
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Ohm Sornil
osornil@csgrad.cs.vt.edu |
Ohm Sornil is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Department of Computer
Science at Virginia Polytechnic and State University and a scholar of the
Royal Thai Government. He received a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from
Kasetsart University, Thailand, in 1993 and an M.S. in Computer Science
from Syracuse University in 1997. His research interests include
information retrieval, digital libraries, communication networks, and
hypermedia.
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Nivio Ziviani
nivio@dcc.ufmg.br |
Nivio Ziviani is a Professor of Computer Science at the Federal
University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil, where he heads the
Laboratory for Treating Informetion. He received a BS in Mechanical
Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1971, an
MSc in Informatics from the Catholic University of Rio in 1976, and
a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1982.
He has obtained several research funds from the Brazilian Research
Council (CNPq), Brazilian Agencies CAPES and FINEP, Spanish Agency CYTED (project AMYRI),
and private institutions. He currently coordinates a four years project on
Web and wireless information systems (called SIAM) financed by the
Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology.
He is co-founder of the Miner Technology Group, owner
of the Miner Family of agents to search the Web.
He is the author of several papers in journals and conference proceedings
covering topics in the areas of algorithms and data structures, information retrieval,
text indexing, text searching, text compression, and related areas. Since
January 1998, he is the editor of the "News from Latin America" section
in the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical
Computer Science. He has been chair and member of the program comitee of
several conferences and is a member of ACM, EATICS, and SBC.
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