Biographical sketch of author
Peter H. Aiken Virginia Commonwealth
University, Department of Information Systems,
Richmond, Virginia (electronic mail: paiken@acm.org). Dr.
Aiken's B.S. and M.S. degrees were received from Virginia Commonwealth
University. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree in information technology
by George Mason University (GMU) in 1989. Subsequently, he joined the
GMU faculty as a visiting assistant professor of information systems
and systems engineering. In 1992 he was recruited by the Department of
Defense to work in the Center for Information Management's (CIM)
Information Engineering Directorate. At CIM, he directed a
multimillion-dollar DoD-wide reverse engineering program aimed at
recovering data architectures from existing information systems. From
1992 to 1997 he held the position of Computer Scientist, most recently
with the Office of the Chief Information Officer. In 1993 Dr. Aiken
joined the faculty of the Department of Information Systems at Virginia
Commonwealth University. He has assisted a number of organizations
worldwide with their data management strategies and systems
implementation initiatives. His research is reported in several
scholarly journals, and he has been invited to speak at a number of
foreign as well as domestic conferences and events.
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