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Ed Fox<\/a>\u00a0serves as Executive Director and Chairman of the Board for NDLTD. He began work on\u00a0ETDs in 1987 when some involved in SGML (a precursor to HTML and XML) were considering\u00a0its application to dissertations. He received a B.S. from MIT in 1972 and then completed his\u00a0M.S. and Ph.D. (1983) at Cornell University, working with Gerard Salton (\u201cthe father of\u00a0information retrieval\u201d). At Virginia Tech since Aug. 1983, he is now an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science. He served as a Board member of the\u00a0Computer Research Association (CRA). He was chair of the steering committee of JCDL\u00a0(ACM\/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). Dr. Fox has been\u00a0(co)principal investigator on over 146 grants\/contracts. He has taught over 88 tutorials in\u00a0more than 28 countries. He has given over 70 keynote\/ banquet\/ international\/ invited\/ distinguished speaker presentations. He has co-authored\/edited 19 books, and over\u00a0142 journal\/magazine articles, 52 book chapters, and many reports. He has (co-)authored over 250 refereed conference\/workshop papers\u00a0and over 518 additional presentations\/posters\/demos. Formerly he served as\u00a0Chairman of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL), and earlier as vice\u00a0chairman and then chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval\u00a0(SIGIR). He has served on hundreds of conference\/workshop committees, and now serves on\u00a02 editorial boards, as well as Executive Editor of J-ETD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed Fox\u00a0serves as Executive Director and Chairman of the Board for NDLTD. He began work on\u00a0ETDs in 1987 when some involved in SGML (a precursor to HTML and XML) were considering\u00a0its application to dissertations. He received a B.S. from MIT in 1972 … <\/p>\n

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