From 1997 to 2003, Gregory B. Newby was an Assistant Professor in the School of
Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill. His research interests there focused on information
retrieval, information space, human-computer interaction, and impacts
of new electronic media.
Effective May 2003, Dr. Newby joined the staff of the Arctic Region
Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks as a
research faculty member. His work there continues to include emphasis on
information retrieval and access, especially information retrieval on
the computational grid (GridIR).
Since 1991, Newby has worked with Project Gutenberg to create and
distribute free electronic eBooks. In 2001, he took on the volunteer
role as CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Open Source Software Development and Lotka's Law: Bibliometric Patterns in Programming | This research applies Lotka's Law to metadata on open source software development. Lotka's Law predicts the proportion of authors at different levels of productivity. Open source software development harnesses the creativity of thousands of programmers worldwide, is important to the progress of the Internet and many other computing environments, and yet has not been widely researched. |
newby@arsc.edu
Dr. Gregory B. Newby, Research Faculty, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks. PO Box 756020, Fairbanks, AK 99775