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Dr. Mark Maybury Executive Director
Biography
Dr. Maybury serves on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (2007-2011), the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group (1999-present) and Boston University's Systems Engineering Division Visiting Committee (2009-present). Mark was co-founder and co-publisher of MITRE's technology newsletter, The Edge (1997-2008). He was founder and Executive Director of the ARDA Northeast Regional Research Center (nrrc.mitre.org). Mark established MITRE's Smart Power Initiative. Mark served on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Studies on Commercial Space (2001), Defending and Operating in a Contested Cyber Domain (2008) and Rapid On Orbit Checkout of Space Systems (2009), the National Space System Architect senior advisory panel (2001), and the Defense Science Board Task Forces on Defense Software (2000), Information Management for Net-Centric Operations (2006), Strategic Communication (2007), Human Dynamics (2008) and Information Technology Acquisition (2009). He chaired the Common Operating Environment Multimedia and Collaboration Working Group (1995-2002) and co-chaired the DoD's Collaboration Interoperability and Standards Working Group (ISWG). He testified to Congress on State Department modernization in 2001. Previously, Dr. Maybury led MITRE's Speech and Natural Language Group, served as Director of the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Technical Center, led the Advanced Information Systems Technology Department, directed the Advanced Information Systems Center (AISC) and served as Deputy Division Manager for National Intelligence. Dr. Maybury has contributed to the MITRE Technology Program as Principal Investigator, Thrust Leader and Technical Integrator and served as project leader for government funded programs. Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Maybury served as a US Air Force officer as Research Team Chief and then Center Program Manager at Rome Air Development Center at Griffiss AFB where he received the Scientific Achievement Award. Dr. Maybury is a recipient of the MITRE Best Paper Award, a lifetime member of the Cambridge Society, and listed in Who's Who in America. He received the Air Force Commendation Medal (1990), a Program Achievement Award for his contributions to the Community Open Source Program Office (1994), the Golden Candle Award for Open Source Intelligence Innovation (1998), a Program Achievement Award for Geospatial News on Demand (GeoNODE) (2000), an award from New York City and MITRE for his support of World Trade Center rescue and recovery efforts (2002), a Recognition Award from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for support to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq (2005), and a Special Recognition Award from President George Bush for planning for the Terrorism Information Sharing Environment (2005). Dr. Maybury was awarded patents for broadcast news understanding (6,961,954) and personalcasting (7,386,542). Mark has over sixty refereed publications. He is editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press 1993), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/ MIT Press 1997), New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI/ MIT Press 2004), co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press 1999), Advances in Knowledge Management (MIT Press 2001), Personalized Digital Television ( Kluwer Academic 2004), Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (Springer 2005), and co-author of Information Storage and Retrieval (Kluwer Academic 2000). He is presently editing Multimedia Information Extraction (2010). Mark serves on program committees and journal boards and has chaired international workshops and conferences including Intelligent User Interfaces (1999), Multimodal Interfaces (2003), Intelligence Analysis (2005), and Multimedia Information Extraction (2008). He was Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGART (2001-2005), is a member of the ACM IUI Steering Council, and an AAAI Counselor. Dr. Maybury received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from College of the Holy Cross magna cum laude in 1986 (Fenwick Scholar), a Masters of Philosophy in Computer Speech and Language Processing from Cambridge University, England in 1987 (Rotary Scholar), a Masters of Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989 and a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence from Cambridge in 1991. |
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Dr. Mark Maybury is Executive Director of MITRE's Information Technology Division. He is responsible for the direction of advanced research and development for intelligence and defense systems supporting a broad range of sponsors including the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, OSD, DISA, DARPA, NSF, and national intelligence agencies. In addition, his division provides research and modernization to the IRS, FAA and Department of State. Mark leads an enterprise distributed across Washington D.C., Bedford, MA and several US and European sites spanning the disciplines of intelligent information systems, analytic tools, performance support, collaborative environments, geospatial information systems, distributed computing, networking, and data, information and knowledge management.