"Overview of Virginia Tech Digital Library Activities"
   Dr. Edward A. Fox, Director, Digital Library Research Laboratory
			  September 1, 1998


		  Computer Science Graduate Seminar
			  CS 5944 Index 9743
			Tuesday 3:30 - 4:45 pm
			     Randolph 211

			    Sponsored by:
			    	Department of Computer Science
				Information Systems
				Internet Technology Innovation Center


Abstract:
Dr. Fox will provide an overview of past, present, and future activities
at Virginia Tech related to Digital Libraries.  Brief mention will be
made of several NSF-funded projects including A User-Centered Database
from the Computer Science Literature, Interactive Learning with a
Digital Library in Computer Science, Computer Science Teaching Center,
and Curriculum Resources in Interactive Multimedia.  Some aspects of
the US Dept. of Education funded project that is developing the
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations will be considered.


Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from
Cornell University, and a B.S.  from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU), where he
serves as Associate Director for Research at the Computing Center, and
Professor of Computer Science.  He has been involved in research,
education and service related mostly to digital libraries, information
storage and retrieval, educational technologies, hypertext/hypermedia/
multimedia, computational linguistics, CD-ROM and optical disc
technology, electronic publishing, and expert systems.