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Dr. Mark Maybury

Executive Director

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Biography    Publications

Dr. Mark Maybury Mark Thomas Maybury

Education

Ph. D. Computer Science, concentration in Artificial Intelligence (natural language processing)
Cambridge University, England, 1991
M.B.A. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989
M. Phil. Computer Speech and Language Processing, Cambridge University, 1987 (Rotary Scholar)
B.A. Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 1986 (Valedictorian, Fenwick Scholar)


Professional Development

Classified US Intelligence Community Course
MITRE Management Development Program, 1993-1994
Managing at MITRE, Spring, 1991
Time Management, Summer 1991
Influence without Authority, MITRE Institute, December, 1991
Program Development, Self-Management Institute, January 1992
Numerous advanced tutorials in information systems, artificial intelligence, and information systems acquisition.

Employment History

1990 - present: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
1987-1990: United States Air Force, Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, NY
1986-1987: United States Air Force, Air Force Institute of Technology (Cambridge, England)
1986: The Computerist, Inc., Chelmsford, MA

Work Experience

1990 - present: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA

July, 1998-present: Executive Director, Information Technology Division. General management of division distributed among Washington, Bedford, and sites. Executive Director of Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) Northeast Regional Research Center (nrrc.mitre.org) and ARDA Corporate Focal Point. Established corporate Collaboration Council, for strategic planning and coordination. Corporate focal point for Open Geospatial Consortium. DoD FFRDC Outcome leader for Decision Support/Collaboration Services. Program Manager for DARPA Information Content Exploitation (ICE) initiative. Member, Board of Trustees of 800+ Object Management Group (OMG) consortia. Co-publisher of MITRE's Edge and Edge Perspectives. Co-Editor of Advances in Automatic Text Summarization (MIT Press, 1999) and Advances in Knowledge Management: Principles and Practice (MIT Press, 2001) and editor of New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI/ MIT Press 2004) and Personalized Digital Television (Kluwer Academic, 2004). Hosted Executive Summit on Collaboration and Executive Summit on Knowledge Management for senior government officials. "United We Stand" Award from New York City for World Trade Center recovery. 2005 Recognition Award from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for support to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq. 2005 Recognition Award from President George Bush for Plan for Terrorist Information Sharing Environment.

December, 1996-June 1998: Director, Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Center. As Director, Dr. Maybury leads a multi-site management team and all principal strategic planning, business development, personnel, and management activities. As Thrust Leader of New Information Services, Mark led a corporate-wide team, including establishing the first Integrated Visionary Demonstration of key capabilities developed at MITRE (e.g., BNN, Websumm, WebMT, PeopleFinder, CVW). Advisor to senior corporate and customer leadership on advanced information systems technology. Director of the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Center. Chair of DII Common Operating Environment Technical Working Group in Multimedia and Collaboration Services. Elected to Innovation Team, a corporate wide officer/director virtual CIO. Established (and co-publisher of) The EDGE, corporate information technology newsletter to enhance communications throughout the corporation and with senior sponsors. Editor of Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/MIT Press, 1997), co-editor of Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998), and co-chair of first international workshop on scalable text summarization.

June, 1995-Dec 1996: Deputy Director, Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Center in the National Intelligence Division of the Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. As Deputy Director, Dr. Maybury assumed responsibility for day to day management of operations including personnel management, strategic planning, and business development. As Thrust Leader of New Information Services, Mark led corporate technology strategy, business development, and management of $4.7M corporate investments in digital libraries, human computer interaction, intelligent agents, and spatial and temporal infrastructure for a broad set of C4I problems and clients. Mark also served as Director of the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Center, Leader of MITRE's Commercial Intelligent Information Access Core Competency and Chair of the Corporate Technology Council in AI. He chaired the international workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval. He gave a number of invited talks and tutorials to both sponsor and professional audiences.

1993-1995: Department Head, Advanced Information Systems Technology Department in the National Intelligence Division of the Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems. As Department Head and Director of the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Technical Center, Dr. Maybury was responsible for the direction of 60 technical and administrative staff engaged in a broad range of information systems architecture and prototyping activities encompassing advanced databases, open systems, collaborative computing, reverse engineering, intelligent training, speech and language processing, intelligent interfaces, and distributed computing. During this time, Mark established an office at Wright Patterson AFB to architect the National Air Intelligence Center's Enhanced Open Source Service Agent (OSSA) for the Intelligence Community's Open Source Coordinator Office (COSCO). Mark also led efforts to couple MITRE's Technology Program with national intelligence sponsors. He served as Principal Investigator of the MSR Multimedia Computing. He led an international workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval. He was an invited tutorial speaker on Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces at major international symposia (IEEE ICMCS, AAAI, ECAI, COLING, CHI, ACM Multimedia). As Director of the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Center, Dr. Maybury served on the Bedford Technology Council, two Corporate Technology Councils (AI, Open Source), as well as several conference program committees.

1992-1993: Associate Department Head, Advanced Information Systems Technology Department. As Associate Director of the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Technical Center, Mark was primarily responsible for managing the Technical Center work program of over 20 staff, leading strategic technology planning and business development activities, and integrating the Bedford Group's artificial intelligence work program with those across the corporation. Mark published scientific and technical papers in the areas of natural language generation, knowledge based simulation, text summarization, and intelligent multimedia interfaces.

1990-1992: As Group Leader of Speech and Natural Language Processing, Mark led a group of scientists that developed novel solutions for problems such as free text understanding, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition, and intelligent information presentation. In a four month time period, he successfully led a group from the Bedford Artificial Intelligence and Networking Centers to develop a multimedia Open Source intelligence demonstration for an emerging corporate initiative. As Principal Investigator on the MSR Tailored Information Presentation, Mark developed novel techniques to enable the automatic generation of fluent English reports from simulations, expert systems, and large databases. The results of this research were published, and a journal article describing the generation of natural language event summaries and route directions was awarded the 1991 MITRE Best Paper and a $5,000 prize. He chaired a national workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces, which led to his editing a collection of the same title in 1993 (AAAI/MIT Press).

1986-1990: United States Air Force, Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, NY

1988-1990: As Center Program Manager Dr. Maybury successfully managed and evaluated multi-million dollar advanced artificial intelligence technology development contracts. To improve the productivity and interoffice communication in the intelligent systems branch, Mark personally advocated, designed, and procured $250,000 office automation system. At Griffiss Mark became a Certified Systems Acquisition Manager. He was a member of the Unit Advisory Council and Professional Development Committee.

1987-1988: As Research Team Chief Dr. Maybury was Project Leader of in-house program to investigate intelligent interfaces to knowledge based planners and land-air simulators. He frequently briefed foreign and domestic military and business leaders on intelligent interface applications being developed at Rome. He trained, managed and led in-house team of software development engineers in the creation and extension of GENNY and TEXPLAN, two advanced intelligent interface systems. While at Rome Marks published 20 artificial intelligence articles (national and international), was nominated for the Chief Scientist Award, and was awarded a Scientific Achievement Award.

1986-1988: Dr. Maybury was assigned to the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Civilian Institutions, while he served as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Scholar at Cambridge University in England.

1986: Senior Software Engineer at The Computerist, Inc., Chelmsford, MA. Mark implemented and tested medical biofeedback application.

Teaching Experience

Dr. Maybury was an Instructor of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) at the Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, Utica, NY in 1989. He individually planned and lectured a HMIS course and taught an advanced seminar. While Fenwick Scholar at the College of the Holy Cross, Mark co-taught an advanced course in artificial intelligence together with Dr. Haring-Smith of the Mathematics Department. During 1994, Dr. Maybury was invited to give a tutorial on Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces at six international conferences in 1994 (CHI-94, AAAI-94, ECAI-94, ICMCS-94, COLING-94, ACM-94), in 1996 (UM'96, ECAI-96). He has given invited tutorials on Intelligent Multimedia (IEEE ICMCS '99), Extraction of Knowledge from Unstructured Text (Intelink 2001), Summarization (ACL 01), User Modeling for Intelligent User Interfaces (UM 2001), User Modeling for Adaptive User Interfaces (AVI-02), Knowledge Management (CIKM-02), Collaboration (CTS-05), Intelligent User Interfaces (HCI '99, IUI '99; AAAI'05), and Intelligent Information Access (MITRE 2002, IA '05).

Hardware and Equipment

IBM PCs, Macintosh, Symbolics, Sun, Texas Instruments, Silicon Graphics, NexT, DEC Vax, MicroVax.

Software

Operating Systems: UNIX, MacOS, PC DOS/Windows, DEC VAX/VMS
Programming Languages: LISP, PROLOG, PASCAL, FORTRAN, C, C++, PL/1.
Protocols and Standards: HTTP, HTML, CORBA, DCE, T.120, H.320.
Database management systems: Sybase, Oracle
Applications: MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, etc.
AI Tools: knowledge based/expert systems tools, case based reasoning, simulation, planning and natural language shells, object-oriented programming, Symbolics windows and flavors

External Technical Committee or Memberships

  1. Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGART, 2001-2003.
  2. Member, IUI Steering Council 1998-present.
  3. Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 1998, 2000, 2002. Program Chair 1999.
  4. Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2003.
  5. Co-Chair, EACL/ACL Workshop on Scalable Text Summarization, Madrid, Spain 1997.
  6. Chair, IJCAI-95 Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval, Montreal, CA, 1995.
  7. Organizing Committee, International Conference on User Modeling
  8. Chair, AAAI-91 Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces, Anaheim, CA 1991.
  9. Organizing Committee, 2nd RADC AI Technology Fair 15-16 November, 1988
  10. ACL SIGMEDIA representative to AAAI
  11. Session Chair, The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue, Second Venaco workshop on The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue. Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy September 16-20, 1991.
  12. Session Chair, Intelligent Space Robotics, Cooperative Intelligent Robotics in Space III Conference, at OE/Technology '92, 15-29 November, 1992, Boston, MA. SPIE Code # 1829-42.
  13. Panelist, "Expert Systems integration with Multimedia", World Congress on Expert Systems, Orlando, FL, 18 December 1991.
  14. Reviewer - International Journal of Computational Intelligence, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, International Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Review: An International Journal. IFIP WG 13,2 Conference on Designing Usable and Effective Multimedia Systems. ACL-COLING ’98.
  15. Program Committee, 2000. ACM SIGIR, ACM IUI, RAIO, Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
  16. Publicity Chair, ANLP/NAACL 2000, Seattle, WA.

Invited Speaker

  • International Conference on Terminology and Knowledge Management (TKE). Palais des Congres, Nancy, France. 2002.
  • International Conference on Knowledge Management. July 12 2002, Graz, Austria.
  • International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Las Palmas, Spain. May, 2002.
  • International Status Conference, MTI Program. Saarbruecken, Germany. October 2001.
  • National Conference on Knowledge Management. Baden Baden, Germany. March, 2001.
  • First International Conference on Adaptive Hypertext (AH ’00). August 29. Trent, Italy.
  • Joint Intelligence Virtual Architecture Annual Conference. August 17, 2000. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • OSIS-I Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. June 26, 2000.
  • European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech ’99). Budapest, Hungary. September 6-9, 1999.
  • European Digital Libraries Conference, September, 1998.
  • IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference. Vienna, Austria. August, 1998.
  • European Committee for Research in Informatics and Mathematics HCI Workshop, Alsace, France, Nov. 1997.
  • International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. MIT Sloan School of Management. September 18, 1997.
  • First International Workshop on Conversational Human Computer Interaction, Bellagio, Italy, 1997.
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Boston, MA 1996.
  • Conference on Frontiers in Distributed Information Systems (FDIS), Key West, FL April, 1996.

MITRE Cluster Groups or Specialty Group Memberships

Director, Bedford Artificial Intelligence Center

Professional Society or Association Memberships

American Association of Artificial Intelligence
Association for Computational Linguistics
Association of Computing Machinery
American Institute of Aerospace and Astronautics
IEEE
Cambridge Society, lifetime member
International Society for Optical Engineering
International Journal of Knowledge Based Systems, Editorial Board
Open Geospatial Consortium, Corporate Focal Point

Professional Honors

Appointed IEEE Fellow, February 2010
Certificate of Recognition, Support to Operation Iraqi Freedom, December 2003
United We Stand” Award from New York City and MITRE for World Trade Center recovery efforts, 2002
Program Achievement Award for Geospatial News on Demand (GeoNODE), 2000.
Program Achievement Award, Community Open Source Program Office, 1994
Rome Laboratory Scientific Achievement Award, 1989
Nominated for Rome Laboratory Chief Scientist Award, 1989
Who’s Who in Science and Technology in the East
Who’s Who in America
Dictionary of International Biography (27th edition), Int. Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK, Melrose Press Ltd.

Academic Awards

Rotary Graduate Scholar, Cambridge University, England, 1986-1987
Valedictorian, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA , 1986
Fenwick and Dana Scholar, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 1986
Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon Delta Sigma (Honorary Management Society)
Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit Honor Society), Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics)
1985 Rev. John F. Redican medal for Junior Class contributions
Nominated for Rhodes, Marshall, and Mellon Scholarship

Other Awards

Chelmsford High School Hall of Fame, 2002
MITRE Best Paper Award, 1991
Golden Candle Award for Open Source Intelligence Innovation, 1998
MITRE Author of the Month, May 1998
Recognition of Service, 2001-2003, ACM SIGART Secretary/Treasurer

Military Awards and Decorations

United States Air Force Training Ribbon, 1986
United States Air Force Overseas Ribbon, 1988
United States Air Force Commendation Medal, 1990

Licenses and Certifications

Advanced Open Water SCUBA, Cavern Diving
Certified Systems Acquisition Manager

Foreign Languages

Read, write and speak Italian and Spanish (understand French and German)

Patent Pending

Content based Segmentation and Presentation of Broadcast News. October 27, 1997. Serial No. 60/065,947.

Publications

Dr. Maybury's publications are listed online.

 

 

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