Author bios
Frederick C. Mintzer
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box
218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (MINTZER at YKTVMV,
(mintzer@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Mintzer has been a research staff
member at IBM since 1978, when he received the Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.
He is currently the manager of the Image Library Applications project
in the Image Applications Department. Since 1981, his work has focused
on image processing methods to better process images for display or
printing. Methods developed by Dr. Mintzer have been included in
several current or former IBM offerings, including the Image View
Facility, IBM OfficeVision*, ImagePlus*, Ultimedia* Color
Delivery/400, and the Color Image Portfolio Assistant. His current
research interests center on methods to more accurately capture, store,
and display color images. In recent years, he has led IBM Research
efforts to develop image library systems for the painter Andrew Wyeth,
the U.S. National Gallery of Art, and the Vatican Library. Dr.
Mintzer's work has resulted in eleven patents and more than thirty
publications. He is a member of the Society for Imaging Science and
Technology and a senior member of the IEEE.
Leonard E. Boyle
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, 00120 Italy. Father
Boyle has been Prefect of the Vatican Library since 1984. He joined the
Dominican Order in 1943; he was a professor of history of theology at
the University of St. Thomas in Rome from 1956 to 1961, and a
professor of palaeography and diplomatics at the Pontifical Institute
of Medieval Studies in Toronto from 1961 to 1984. Father Boyle received
his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1956. He is a fellow of the Royal
Historical Society, London, and of the Medieval Academy of America, a
corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Albert N. Cazes
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (CAZES at YKTVMV,
(cazes@watson.ibm.com). Dr. Cazes graduated from the City
University of New York with a B.S. in physics in 1969. He received an
M.S. from Hunter College, New York, in 1975 and a Ph.D. from the
Polytechnic University, New York, in 1982, both in mathematics. From
1970 to 1983 he worked in the Office of Data Processing of the City of
New York, where he computerized several administrative systems. From
1983 to 1993 Dr. Cazes taught courses in mathematics, statistics, and
computer science on a part-time basis at CUNY's Baruch College and
SUNY's College at Purchase. In 1983 he joined the IBM Research
Division, where he has worked in the areas of videotext, functional
programming, parallel processing, virtual reality, and image
processing. Dr. Cazes is a member of Sigma Xi and the Society for
Imaging Science and Technology.
Brian S. Christian
Digital Media Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid
Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 (bsc4@po.cwru.edu). Mr. Christian
is a manager in the Digital Media Laboratory. He joined the group in
1990 to develop client/server software. He received a B.S. in computer
engineering from Case Western Reserve University and is currently an
M.S. candidate in a practice-oriented program offered by the school of
engineering at Case Western Reserve University.
Steven C. Cox
Digital Media Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid
Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 (scc@po.cwru.edu). Mr. Cox has been
a software developer at Case Western Reserve University since 1990.
His past projects have included Smalltalk implementations of multimedia
and hypertext authoring and presentation systems. He is currently a
team member working on a comprehensive Rights Management system used to
control networked access to digitized intellectual properties. Mr. Cox
holds a B.S. degree from Case Western Reserve University.
Francis P. Giordano
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box
218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (GIORDAN at YKTVMV,
(giordan@watson.ibm.com). Mr. Giordano is a senior engineer and
project leader of the Image Capture Systems group. He received an
associate degree in electrical engineering from the RCA Institute
of Technology, New York, in 1973 and a B.S.E.E. from the University of
Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1980. Mr. Giordano joined the Thomas J.
Watson Research Center in 1973 and has since worked on various aspects
of high-end imaging systems utilizing charge-coupled devices.
Henry M. Gladney
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road,
Almaden, California 95120 (GLADNEY at ALMADEN,
(gladney@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Gladney has been an IBM
research staff member since receiving his Ph.D. in chemical physics
from Princeton University in 1963. He has held management positions in
physical sciences and in computing services, and is a member of the
Association for Computing Machinery and a fellow of the American
Physical Society. Dr. Gladney has published in scientific journals
in physics, chemistry, laboratory automation, computer security, and
database technology. He was a principal contributor to three software
projects which became widely used IBM products: RACF*, a component
of OS/MVS and OS/2 LAN services which aids administrative control
and information security; EDX/1, a multiprogramming-multitasking
operating system for process control computers; and
ImagePlus VisualInfo, an operational image service. Dr. Gladney's
current interest is data management in extremely large systems, with
special attention to Digital Library opportunities.
Milton L. Kelmanson
Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(vlpgroup@ludovisi.vlp-ibm.puc-rio.br). Professor Kelmanson
received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1976; he is a member of
Sigma Xi and the Scientific Research Society of North America. Besides
his interest in operations research and applications of discrete
optimization techniques to the layout of VLSI chips, Professor
Kelmanson manages the participation of the Catholic University in the
Vatican Library Project.
Jack C. Lee
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218,
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (JCLEE at YKTVMV,
(jclee@watson.ibm.com). Mr. Lee is an advisory engineer in the
Image Applications Department working on color scanning and processing.
He received a B.S.E.E. degree from City College of New York in 1974,
and an M.S. degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University,
New York, in 1987. From 1974 to 1983, he worked at IBM East
Fishkill/IBM Kingston on VLSI microprocessor design and software
verification. Since 1983, Mr. Lee has been a member of the Image
Technologies Department, Computer Science, at the Thomas J. Watson
Research Center. He has worked on various projects relating to
high-resolution color image capture and archiving, and also image
processing for displays and for printing. His current interests include
the integration of high-resolution imaging into the Digital Library
arena. Mr. Lee is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Antonio C. Lirani
IBM Brazil Industry Marketing Education and Research, São Paulo,
Brazil. Mr. Lirani received his B.S. in mechanical engineering
from the University of São Paulo, São Carlos, in 1970; he
is working toward his Ph.D. in digital systems at the Politechnic
School of the University of São Paulo. Since joining IBM in
1976, Mr. Lirani has worked in Industry Marketing Education and
Research and has held management positions at the IBM Sumare Plant
Information Systems, the IBM Software Institute, and the Software
Engineering Institute at the IBM Latin American Technology Institute.
He currently manages the IBM Brazil Academic Programs Department.
Beginning in January 1994, during the 18 months of its first
phase, Mr. Lirani was the manager of the IBM Brazil/PUC-Rio
subsystem of the Vatican Library Accessible Worldwide Project.
Karen A. Magerlein
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box
218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (ANDRSON at YKTVMV,
(andrson@watson.ibm.com). Ms. Magerlein graduated from Duke
University with a B.S. in computer science in 1980, joining the Image
Technologies Department of the Research Division that same year. She
has worked on the development of programming tools, techniques for
binary image manipulation, and the JPEG compression standard. Ms.
Magerlein received IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards in 1985 for her
contributions to the Image View Facility and in 1991 for her work on
bilevel image compression software; she is a co-inventor on sixteen
patents. Ms. Magerlein is currently an advisory engineer with the Image
Applications Department, working on software for digital library
applications. She completed her M.S. in computer science at Columbia
University in 1995.
Ana M. B. Pavani
Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(vlpgroup@ludovisi.vlp-ibm.puc-rio.br). Professor Pavani received
her D.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
in 1983. Besides being interested in automation in general and in
administrative and library automation in particular, she is the
technical manager of PUC-Rio in the Vatican Library Project.
Fabio Schiattarella
IBM SEMEA (Southern Europe Middle East Africa) New Markets Unit,
Piazzale Giulio Pastore 6, 00144 Rome, Italy
(schiatta@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Schiattarella joined the IBM Rome
Scientific Center in 1988, working in the area of image processing. His
other areas of professional interest are multimedia and digital
libraries. Since 1993 he has managed local operations in Rome for the
IBM-Vatican Library Project. Mr. Schiattarella received his degree in
electronic engineering from the University of Rome in 1987.
*OfficeVision, ImagePlus, and Ultimedia are
registered trademarks, and RACF is a trademark, of International
Business Machines Corporation.
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