As manager of Special Projects at LCS since 1986, my assignment from the fall of 1994 to winter of 1997 was W3C. I worked in moving the World Wide Web Project and establishing the W3 Consortium at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT. My assignments with W3C included direct assistance to consortium members for any communication problems with the consortium, establishing and editing the biweekly newsletter,and troubleshooting across team domain groups. My activities ranged from conducting an international conference for 2500 people to find bricks to prop up a desk. During the three years W3C team grew from three MIT team members to fifty team members in three countries and Consortium membership grew from five organizations to two hundred and fifty.
The establishment of World Team tools linking the W3C Team members at the sites in France and Japan was challenging. Weekly meetings that now use IRC and Telephone were arranged and a daily updated Information center of the "Team Home Page" was established. Appropriate use of technology for infrastructure is always interesting. Although the technology itself is always fun , it is often less challenging than human issues.
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At LCS since 1986 , I have also directed Computer Resource Services through the transition from time-shared main frames to time-shared minis to desktop networked worksations, and managed the supercomputer project SCOUT(SuperCOmpUterTriad) . SCOUT brought collaborarting Computer Scientists and Physical Scientists and students at MIT, BU and Harvard into collaborative Grand Challenge research using a 128-node CM5.
Before joining MIT-LCS in 1986, I studied Physics at Boston College [B.S.,`66], and the University of Toledo [M.S.'70, Ph.D.`73] and University Administration at Harvard. [Ed.M.'90]. Before joining MIT-LCS in 1986, I taught Physics and Computer Science as an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1986. Computer use for infrastructure is my common theme of the last two decades.
Full career history information is available upon request.
