Bruce Schatz, Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Information Science, UIUC
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Bruce Schatz is Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also a faculty in the Institute for Genomic Biology and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science with joint appointment in the Computer Science Department. He is also founding Director of the research resource CANIS Laboratory (Community Architectures for Network Information Systems). He holds degrees in computer science with minor in biological science from Rice, MIT, CMU, and Arizona. His research focuses on building information infrastructure for biomedical applications, using statistical information retrieval technologies. He is best known for the Telesophy System, which pioneered the foundation of Web technologies. He serves as Principal Investigator of the $5M NSF Fron- tiers in Integrative Biological Research FIBR project building the BeeSpace Environment. This interactive environment enables concept navigation through biomedical literature and genome databases. The prototype system supports functional analysis of social behavior in honey bees for an international community of molecular biologists and neuroscientists. He served as Principal Investigator of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative DLI project, a $5M flagship effort in the Federal Program in National Information Infrastructure. This project built a large-scale testbed of structured documents from engineering journals for federated search to 2500 users around campus. He also served as Principal Investigator of the $4M °agship project in the DARPA Information Management Program, which built a prototype analysis environment to support community repositories (Interspace). The Interspace Prototype was used to semantically index all of MEDLINE, winning Best Paper at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), serving as the scientific advisor for digital libraries and information systems since 1989. This includes the period that NCSA developed Mosaic, the browser that catalyzed the Web and became the foundation for the commercial web browsers from Netscape and Microsoft. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), for pioneering semantic processing of scientific literature using supercomputers. He held an NSF Young Investigator award (NYI) in science information systems.
