Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A little about me...

"For the record," here is a little about me:

I have spent many years studying the unique social, legal, and technical problems that arise when managing and disseminating information in the digital environment. In my role as a principle investigator on several projects at HP Labs, I have focused on the policy-based management and personalization of distributed, heterogeneous digital object repositories and content processing architectures. Most recently I was co-PI on Fractal, research focused on delivering a platform for content-centered collaboration spaces "in the cloud." Before joining HP Labs in January 2000 I was the architect of Copyright Direct (tm), the first real-time, Internet-based service to fully automate the complex copyright permissions process for a variety of media types.

Since 1998 I have been awarded multiple US patents for digital rights management (DRM) and information security technologies; numerous related patents are pending. have been an active participant in a number of international metadata and rights management standards efforts and currently serves on the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) advisory committee, the DSpace Architectural Review committee, the Handle System Technical Review committee and the Global Handle System Advisory Committee. In early 2007 I was elected to the board of directors of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). In the past I have served on the Industry Working Group for Digital Copyright Submissions for the U.S. Copyright Office, the OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee, and the W3C Digital Rights Management Program Committee. I was a charter editorial board member of IEEE Security and Privacy magazine.

From 1997-1999, I was VP of Technology Strategy and a co-founder of Yankee Rights Management. From 1995-1997, I was VP of Product & Technology Strategy for NetRights, LLC, a company I co-founded in 1995 to commercially deploy his research in technologies for copyright management in the digital, networked environment. NetRights was sold in 1997 to Digimarc Corporation (DMRC), a leading provider of digital image watermarking technologies. From 1984-1992 I was a systems architect and project leader for Digital Equipment Corporation.

I hold a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College (1997), an M.Eng.(EE) from Cornell University (1989), and a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1984).

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Open for Business!

Prompted by the changing climate in corporate research, I am looking for new opportunities and especially collaborations. "Bitwacker" is my new public home!