Professional Activities

A. University Activity

1. Member, Center for Information Research, University of Florida, 1970 - .

2. Member, Institute for Advanced Study of Communication Processes, University of Florida, 1970- .

3. Member, University Advisory Committee for the Communication Research Center, University of Florida, 1974- .

4. Chairman, Computer and Information Engineering Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1973-74, 1975-77.

5. Member, Computer User Committee, Communication Science Lab.

6. Courtesy appointment with the Linguistic Program since 1972.

7. Courtesy appointment with the Computer and Information Sciences Department, 1972-77.

8. Member, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1973-74 and 1978-79.

9. Chairman, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1977-79.

10. Director, Database Systems Research and Development Center, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1977-present.

11. Chairman, Personnel Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1979-80.

12. Member, Senior Faculty Search Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1980.

13. Member, Personnel Board, College of Engineering, University of Florida, 1980- .

14. Member, Social Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1979-80.

15. Chairman, Computer Utilization Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1980-81.

16. Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1980-81.

17. Member, Laboratory and Facilities Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1980-81.

18. Member, Ph.D. Curriculum Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1980-81.

19. Member, University Senate, University of Florida, 1981-2.

20. Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, 1982- .

21. Chairman, Faculty Screening Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Florida, 1981-82.

22. Chairman, Computer Usage Committee, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Florida, 1981-82.

23. Chairman, Senior Level Faculty Search Committee for Departments of Computer and Information Sciences and Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, 1982-83.

24. Member, Faculty Search Committee, EE Department, 1982-84.

25. Member, Computer Usage Committee, CIS Department, 1983-84.

26. Member, Search Committee for the Pittman CAD/CAM Chair, College of Engineering, 1983-84.

27. Speaker, CAD/CAM Workshop, College of Engineering, April 16, 1984.

28. Faculty Award for Supervising the Outstanding Master's Thesis of 1983 (C. Baru), Electrical Engineering Department.

29. Member, University Senate, 1986-7.

30. Chairman, Chairperson Search Committee, Computer and Information Sciences Department, 1986-87.

31. Chairman/ Member, Faculty Search Committee, Computer and Information Sciences Department, 1988-92.

32. Chairman, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Computer and Information Sciences Department, 1991-93.

33. Member, Computer Engineering Committee, Electrical Engineering Department, 1990-92.

34. Member, Personnel Board, College of Engineering, 1991-92.

35. Member, Standing Committee on Administrative Computing, University of Florida, 1992-94.

36. Member, Faculty Search for Digital Signal Processing Area Recruiting, Electrical Engineering Department, 1992.

37. Chairman, Joint CIS-EE Program in Computer Engineering, 1992-94.

38. Mentor, Minority Mentor Program, 1992-93.

39. Chairman, College Personnel Board, College of Engineering, 1993-94.

40. Chairman, Joint CISE-ECE Program in Computer Engineering, 1995-97.

41. Member, CISE Department Planning Committee, 1996-98.

42. Member, CISE Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1996-98.

43. Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, ECE Department, 1997-98.

 

B. State Activity

1. Seminar speaker at many universities and industrial companies in the United States.

2. Session Chairman, First Annual Creativity Center Consortium Workshop and Computer Future Application Seminar, Gainesville, 1972.

3. Lecturer, Microprocessor Institute, Gainesville, Florida, April 15-17, 1975.

4. Panel Member, Computer/Computer Software Panel, State of Florida High Technology and Industry Council, 1984-86.

5. Vice Chairman, High Technology Subcommittee on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Florida High Technology an Industry Council, State of Florida, 1986-94.

 

C. National Activity

1. Area Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Academic Press, 1983-89.

2. Editor, IEEE's Transactions on Software Engineering, 1981-88.

3. Co-Chairman, Program Committee, The First Florida Conference on Productivity and Competitiveness in Manufacturing (PROCIM '88), Orlando, FL., Nov. 14-15, 1988.

4. Co-Chairman, Program Committee, The Second Annual Conference on Productivity through Computer Integrated Engineering & Manufacturing (PROCIEM '89), Orlando, FL., Nov. 13-15, 1989.

5. Program Committee member, the 1991 Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS), Miami, FL., Dec. 5-6, 1991.

6. Co-chairman, The Second Workshop on Computer Architecture for Non-numeric Processing, Jan. 22-23, 1976.

7. Seminar speaker at many universities and industrial companies in the United States.

8. Treasurer, First Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1973.

9. Session Chairman, National Computer Conference and Exposition, Chicago, 1974.

10. Staff Consultant, Queueing Systems Incorporated, Los Angeles, California, 1974-76.

11. Member, Database Program Conversion Task Group, CODASYL's System Committee, 1977- .

12. Member, Technical Committee in Database Engineering, IEEE.

13. Founding Member, Technical Committee on Database Engineering, IEEE.

14. Lecturer and Consultant, Microprocessor short courses, George Washington University, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 1975; Nov. 10-12, 1975; Dec. 8-10, 1975; Feb. 11-13, 1976; Jan. 10-12, 1978.

15. Member, Working Panel on Database Directions, sponsored by NBS and ACM, Nov. 1-3, 1977.

16. Local Organizer, Database Directions, sponsored by NBS, Oct. 24-25, 1978.

17. Invited panelist, Technical Feasibility Workshop on Preserving Existing Databases, National Bureau of Standards, August 22-23, 1978.

18. Group leader, Data Modeling and Definition, Database Design Workshop, New Orleans, Oct. 24-25, 1978.

19. Panelist, Panel on Database System Conversion, National Computer Conference, 1978.

20. Invited Speaker, the meeting of the American National Standards Committee on Computers and Information Processing (ANSI/X3/DBS-SG), Orlando, Florida, March 26-27, 1979.

21. Invited speaker in the following organizations during 1978-79: IBM Research Lab. in San Jose, California; IBM Research Lab. in Yorktown Heights, New York; Defense Communication Agency, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.; National Bureau of Standards; and IBM in Brazil.

22. Regular referee for NSF, IEEE's TOSE, ACM's TODS, and national and international computer conferences.

23. Review Panelist, Research Equipment Grants, NSF, 1980.

24. Lecturer and Consultant, short courses in PASCAL Programming, George Washington University, Aug. 21-24, 1979; Dec. 11-14, 1979.

25. Member, Standing Committee, Workshop on Computer Architecture for Non-numeric Processing, 1979-83.

26. Session Organizer, Session on Database Machines, National Computer Conference, 1980.

27. Member, Program Committee, Computer Architecture for Pattern Analysis and Image Database Management, Nov. 11-13, 1981.

28. Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Statistical Database Management, Dec. 2-4, 1981, Menlo Park, CA.

29. Session Organizer, Session on Problems and Requirements of SDB Management, Workshop on Statistical Database Management, Dec. 2-4, 1981.

30. Member, Program Committee, Second International Workshop on Statistical Database Management, 1982-83.

31. Speaker, Opening Session, 1983 Syracuse University Minnowbrook Workshop on Database Machines, July 5-8, 1983.

32. Lecturer, Short Course for George Washington University, 1983.

33. Reviewer, Review research program at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, February 1987.

34. Eminent Engineer, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, Dec. 1993.

 

D. International Activities

1. Editor-in-Chief, International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, 1993- 2001.

2. Conference Coordinator for the Americas, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Hong Kong, Aug. 20-23, 2002.

3. Trustee, VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees, 1991- 1999.

4. Treasurer, Executive Committee, VLDB Endowment, 1991- 1999.

5. Tutorial Chair, Sixth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '97), Las Vegas, NV, Nov. 10-12, 1997.

6. Program Chairman, The 12th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '96), New Orleans, LA., Feb. 26 - March 1, 1996.

7. Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1989-95.

8. U. S. Conference Chairman, Fifth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 3-5, 1979.

9. General Chairman, International Conference on Management of Data (ACM-SIGMOD), Orlando, Florida, June 2-4, 1982.

10. Associate Editor, International Journal on Computer Languages, 1981- present.

11. Associate Editor, International Journal on Information Sciences, 1982- present.

12. Associate Editor, Asian Journal of Business & Information Systems, 1996 - present.

13. Program Chairman, The IEEE Computer Society's Thirteenth Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC89), Orlando, Florida, Sept. 20-22, 1989.

14. Session Chairman, International Computer Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 20-22, 1975.

15. Lecturer, Computer Science Workshop, Taiwan, Aug. 14-16, 1975.

16. Panelist, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Brussels, Sept. 8-10, 1976.

17. Program Chairman and Organizer of the Workshop on Database Management, Taipei, Taiwan, May 27-28, 1977 (500 attendants).

18. Panelist, International Conference on Management of Data, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 3-5, 1977.

19. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Management of Data, 1978.

20. Panelist, Panel on Database Technology, Fourth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Berlin, West Germany, Sept. 13-15, 1978.

21. Chairman, Panel on Database Machines, International Conference on Management of Data, Austin, Texas, 1978.

22. Technical presentations at many international conferences.

23. Lecturer, Short Course for George Washington University in Berlin, West Germany, May 1980.

24. Invited lecturer, lecture tour in People's Republic of China, August 16-October 4, 1980.

25. Member, Program Committee of the 7th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Cannes, France, 1981.

26. Member, Program Committee, Second International Conference on Database: Improving Usability and Responsiveness, Israel, June 22-24, 1982..

27. Session Organizer, "Database System Conversion: Problems and Solutions," IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 82), Chicago, Nov. 10-12,1982.

28. Member, Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Florence, Italy, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 1983.

29. Member, Program Committee, Second International Workshop on Statistical Database Management, Los Altos, California, Sept. 27-29, 1983.

30. Member, Search Committee for Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1983.

31. Program Committee Member, IEEE's International Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, CA., 1984-90.

32. Member of CAM-i's Factory Management Group.

33. Program Committee Member, The 5th International Workshop on Database Machines, Japan, October 1987.

34. Editor, The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, 1990-93 .

35. Program Committee Member, the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 28-30, 1991.

36. Program Committee Member, First International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS 91), Miami Beach, FL., 1991.

37. Invited Paper Presentation, "Current Trends in Database Research and Application," Yenching Graduate Institute Symposium on Current Research Challenges, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China, Oct. 12-16, 1994.

38. Member, Program Committee, 4th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002), to be held at Newport Beach, CA., June 26-28, 2002.

39.Member, Program Committee, The 1st International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2002), to be held in Hong Kong, Aug. 20-23, 2002.

40. Member, Program Committee, The 2003 Symposium on Applications & the Internet (SAINT2003), Orlando, FL, Jan. 27-31, 2003.