Edward A. Fox

CTO, Founder, Ph.D.

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Company Responsibility

Dr. Fox is Chief Technology Officer of Mayfair Group LLC.

Boards

Executive Director, Chairman of the Board, and Founder, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), making graduate research accessible worldwide (1996-present)
Elected Member, Computing Research Association Board, advocating computing research (2010-2013)
Chairman and Founder, Student Information Processing Board, MIT (with co-founder Bob Frankston, co-inventor of spreadsheets (1968-1971)
Member, ACM Publications Board (1988-1992, 2018-present), and Co-chair, Digital Library Committee
Member, Advisory Board, DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, funded by the European Union's 6th Framework Programme (2004-2008)
Member, Governing Board, Internet Technology Innovation Center, funded by Virginia's Center for Innovative Technologies (1998-2004)
Many additional advisory boards and editorial boards (e.g., IEEE Thesaurus Board, IJDL, JEMH, JIIS, JUCS, MTAP, and PeerJ CS)

International/Commercial Experience

Manager of Information Systems, International Inst. of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria (1982-1983)
Data Processing Manager, Vulcraft, Div. of NUCOR Corporation, Florence, SC (1972-1978)

Domain Expertise

Consulting with law firms since 2000 on patent litigation, deposed more than 7 times, testifying in 3 trials, many expert reports
Research and teaching on: digital libraries, electronic publishing, human-computer interaction (user studies), hypertext/hypermedia (Web), multimedia, information storage and retrieval (i.e., search engines), machine learning/AI, natural language processing/computational linguistics, . . .

Honors and Awards

(Co)Principal Investigator on 128 research grants/contracts, from Advance Auto Parts, AOL, ARPA, AT&T, BAE Systems, Chemical Abstracts Service, Dept. of Educ., Google, IBM, IMLS, Intel, Natl. Ag. Lib., Mellon, Microsoft, NCR, NEH, Nimbus Records, NIH, NIJ, NIST, NLM, NSF, NSWC, OCLC, PRC Inc., QNRF, Sun, UNESCO, U.S. Dept. of Education, Virginia CIT, West Publishing Co., . . .
ACM Fellow, cited for contributions in information retrieval and digital libraries; 7 ACM Recognition of Service Awards
IEEE Fellow, cited for leadership in digital libraries and information retrieval
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who
MIT William Stewart Award

Professional Leadership

Elected Vice Chair, Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, SIGIR (1987-1995)
Elected Chairman, IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (2004-2008, and Executive Committee member since)
Chair (now a member), ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Steering Committee (2003-present); General Chair JCDL 2001; Co-Program Chair JCDL 2018
(Co)Chair or (Co)Program Chair for many conferences and workshops

Academic Experience and Accomplishments

Dr. Fox is a Professor in Computer Science (with a courtesy appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering) at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He joined VT in 1983 after completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University. His B.S. at MIT was completed in 1972. He directs the Digital Library Research Laboratory.

He is (co)author/editor of 19 books, 130 journal/magazine articles, 224 refereed conference/workshop papers, 67 keynote/distinguished lectures, 84 tutorials, and 615 other publications/reports/presentations.

He has run capstone courses for over 25 years, with hundreds of student teams working on service learning term projects with real clients, awarded for innovative problem-based teaching, aided by technology.

At Virginia Tech he runs the Digital Library Research Laboratory (since 1998, deploying innovative information systems to serve communities), was President of the Engineering Faculty Organization (2015-2017), and served 1990-2014 as Associate Director for Research at the Computing Center and then as Faculty Advisor to Information Technology.

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