Subject: Few Edits and Short CV Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:44:50 -0500 From: Geoffrey Fox To: Joe Thompson CC: p_gcf@npac.syr.edu I would like to add two more references 10. "A Reference Architecture for Distributed Collaborative Applications", technical report by Vassil Roussev from Univ. North Carolina Collaboration Bus Project, 1999 http://www.cs.unc.edu/~dewan/cb.html 11. "Collaborative Visualization", PhD. Thesis by Jason Wood, University of Leeds, School of Computer Science 1998. Insert these as in following modified paragraph We have studied existing collaborative systems and have extensive experience with two - Habanero and TangoInteractive - used by the NSF Alliance and DoD PET projects. Technology has changed so rapidly that it is not interesting to re-use these systems, but rather we intend to design a new system whose internal design will be built on the ideas of the Collaborative Web Portal (CWP) recently proposed by Fox. This design also uses ideas from other projects and architecture designs such as those described in [10] and [11]. Rather than the custom servers and protocols of the earlier systems, we will build on the emerging distributed software infrastructure discussed above. Again, Ninja from UC Berkeley seems attractive, as the second generation version available in early 2000 has excellent support for robust distribution and queuing of events which is needed by the shared event models of collaboration. Here is Short CV Geoffrey Charles Fox gcf@npac.syr.edu , http://www.npac.syr.edu, Phone: (315) 443-2163, Fax: (315) 443-4741 NPAC Syracuse University 111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244-4100 Education: B.A. in Mathematics from Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, England (1961-1964) Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University (1964-1967) M.A. from Cambridge University (1968) Professional Experience: 2000- Professor of Computer Science, Florida State University 1990- Professor of Computer Science, Syracuse University 1990- Professor of Physics, Syracuse University 1990-2000 Director of Northeast Parallel Architectures Center 1979-1990 Professor of Physics, California Inst. of Tech. 1986-1988 Associate Provost for Computing, California Inst. of Tech. 1983-1985 Dean for Educational Computing, California Inst. of Tech. 1981-1983 Executive Officer of Physics, California Inst. of Tech. 1974-1979 Associate Professor of Physics, California Inst. of Tech. 1971-1974 Assistant Professor of Physics, California Inst. of Tech. 1970-1971 Millikan Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Caltech 1970 Visiting Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island 1969-1970 Research Fellow at Peterhouse College, Cavendish Lab.,Cambridge 1968-1969 Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab., Berkeley, Calif. 1967-1968 Member of School of Natural Science, Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey Five Selected Publications -------------------------- 1) Fox, G. C., Messina, P., Williams, R., Parallel Computing Works!, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo Ca, 1994. 2) Akarsu E., Fox, G.C., Furmanski W., Haupt T., "WebFlow -- High-level Programming environment and Visual Authoring Toolkit for High Performance Distributed Computing" in Proceedings of SC98, Orlando, November 1998. 3) Erol Akarsu, Geoffrey Fox, Tomasz Haupt, Alexey Kalinichenko, Kang-Seok Kim, Praveen Sheethaalnath, and Choon-Han Youn , "Using Gateway System to Provide a Desktop Access to High Performance Computational Resources", Proceedings of HPDC-8 Conference, Redondo Beach Ca., Aug 3-6, 1999, IEEE Press. 4) Fox G.C., Furmanski W., "Computing on the Web,New Approaches to Parallel Processing,Petaop and Exaop Performance in the Year 2007", IEEE Internet Computing 1:2,38-46, 1997 5) Fox G.C., and Podgorny M, "Real Time Training and Integration of Simulation and Planning using the TangoInteractive Collaborative System", in Proceedings of International Test and Evaluation Workshop on High Performance Computing, July 1998, Aberdeen Maryland.