Bert Dempsey (bert@ruby.ils.unc.edu) |
Bert was the academic co-lead in the Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) research project for which the "MetaLab Linux channel" was among the initial content channels. His research interests center around two broad areas, multimedia networking and digital library research, including Internet resource discovery and the associated problems of WWW resource description and metadata standards. His focus is on how to develop practical systems that will enable effective exploitation of the WWW by specialized user communities. He moved to the private sector in January of 2003. |