RICHARD FURUTA

Professor and Undergraduate Advisor

Email: furuta@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-3839 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 402C
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~furuta

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Washington, 1986
M.S. Computer Science, University of Oregon, 1978
B.A. Biology, Reed College, 1974

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Digital libraries, hypertext systems and models, computer-human interaction, electronic publishing

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

National Science Foundation, "Information Discovery and Communication with Meta-Documents over the World Wide Web," 1998-2002.

TAMU Research Enhancement Programs: Interdisciplinary Program, "Enabling Structured Use of Online Research Humanities Materials Through Metadocuments," 2000-2001.

National Science Foundation, "ITR/IM+HCI: The Cervantes Project Advances from Computer Science Research to Update and Enhance Traditional Scholarship Practices," 2000-2003.

National Science Foundation, "Metadocuments as Communicative Artifact to Enable Use of a Research Digital Library in Undergraduate SMET Education," 2000-2002.

National Science Foundation, "Design and Evaluation of Maintenance Tools for Distributed Digital Libraries," 2001-2003.

SELECTED AWARDS

Charles W. Crawford Service Award, 2008-2009

ACM Distinguished Engineer, 2007

TEES Fellow, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2001

Donald R. Ray '68 Faculty Fellow, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1999-2000

EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2001 - present

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1993-2001

Director, Hypermedia Research Laboratory, Computer Science Department Texas A&M University, 1995-present

Co-director, Hypermedia Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1993-1995

Associate Director, TEES Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, 1995-present

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Maryland, 1985-1993

Lecturer 1985-1986, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, 1987-1989, 1990-1993

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Member of ACM and ASIS&T; Senior Member IEEE

Chair, ACM SIGLINK, 1993-1997

Member at large, ACM SIG Board, 1997-1998

Member, ACM SIG Governing Board Executive Committee, 1998-2001

United States Editor, Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination & Design, 1990-1998

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Digital Libraries, Springer, Fall 2001-present

Selected Editorial boards: Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination & Design, 1987-1998; Hypermedia, 1992-1994; The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia: Applications and Research, since 1995; Journal of Digital Information (JoDI), since 1996; ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), since 2000.

Program Chairman: EP'90, International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation, and Typography, 1990; Annual Symposium of the DC Area Chapter of the ACM, Advanced Information Interfaces: Making Data Accessible," 1991; ACM Hypertext, 1993; Digital Libraries, 1995; ACM Digital Libraries Conference, 2000

Proceedings Editor, ACM Hypertext 1991, San Antonio, TX

Organizer, Principles of Document Processing Workshop, Wash. DC, 1992

Proceedings Co-chair, ACM 1994, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Conference Chairman, Digital Libraries, College Station, TX, 1994

Organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar on Document Processing, Germany, 1995

Co-chair, working group, "IR and DM in the WWW, Internet and Wireless Era," 1999 NSF Information and Data Management Workshop

Member, organizing committee, NSF Information and Data Management Workshop, 2001

Mentoring chair, ACM Hypertext 2001

Tutorials co-chair, European Conference on Digital Libraries 2001 (ECDL 2001)

Workshops Chair, ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2002

Member of numerous conference program committees and reviewer panels

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Neal Audenaert, Richard Furuta, Eduardo Urbina, Jie Deng, Carlos Monroy, Rosy Saenz, Doris Careaga, "Integrating Diverse Research in a Digital Library Focused on a Single Author," Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 9th European Conference, ECDL 2005, Austria, September 2005; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3652, Springer, pp. 151-161, 2005.

Pratik Dave, Paul Logasa Bogen, H Unmil Karadkar, Luis Francisco Revilla, Richard Furuta, Frank Shipman, "Dynamically Growing Hypertext Collections," Hypertext 2004 Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Santa Cruz CA, August 9-13, pp. 171-180, 2004.

Francisco-Revilla, L., Shipman, F., Furuta, R., Karadkar, U., and Arora, A., "Perception of Content, Structure, and Presentation Changes in Web-based Hypertext," Hypertext '01: Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, pp. 205-214, August 2001.

Furuta, R., Kalaspur, S., Kochumman, R., Urbina, E., and Vivancos-Perez, R., "The Cervantes Project: Steps to a Customizable and Interlinked On-line Electronic Varorium Edition Supporting Scholarship," Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 5th European Conference, ECDL 2001, LNCS 2163, Springer, pp. 71-82, September 2001.

Na, J-C., and Furuta, R. "Dynamic Documents: Authoring Browsing, and Analysis Using a High-Level Petri Net-Based Hypermedia System," ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2001, November 2001.

Shipman, F., Furuta, R., Brenner, D., Chung, C., and Hsieh, H., "Guided Paths through Web-Based Collections: Design, Experience and Adaptations," Journal of the American Society of Information Sciences (JASIS), 51(3), pp. 260-272, March 2000.

Stotts, P. David, Furuta, Richard, and Cabarrus, Cyrano Ruiz, "Hyperdocuments as Automata: Verification of Trace-based Browsing Properties by Model Checking," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-30, Jan. 1998.