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Libraries Colloquium Series Sponsored by School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh present, Co-Sponsored by the University Library System, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries |
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About the Speaker: Howard D. Wactlar is Vice Provost
for Research Computing, Associate Dean, and holds the
Alumni Research Professor of Computer Science chair in
the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
He has been University Vice Provost since 1979, serving
in various research, technical and administrative capacities
within CMU since joining them in 1967. He was a founder
of the DoD funded Software Engineering Institute where
he served as Director for Technical and Administrative
Services 1984-88; served from 1992-95 as Director of
the Information Technology Center, a research department
within CMU focused on large-scale deployment and technology
transfer. He was primary architect and is project director
of the Informedia Digital Video Library, one of the national
NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative projects. His
research accomplishments have spanned from symbolic mathematics
to distributed operating systems, multi-technology network
architectures andultimedia platforms. His current research
interests center on multimedia information systems; learning
and intelligent systems including speech, image and natural
language understanding; and very high performance networks. |
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