2007: Alvin K. Cheung
Alvin K. Cheung, a doctoral student in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named the recipient of the 2007 A. R. Zipf Fellowship in Information Management. Cheung's research focuses on the collection and processing of contextual information called ContextDB.
2006: Abe Crystal
Abe Crystal has been named the recipient of the 2006 A. R. Zipf Fellowship in Information Management. Abe is working on his Ph.D. in information and library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the usability of information systems.
2005: Richard Swart
Richard Swart has been named the recipient of the 2005 A. R. Zipf Fellowship in Information Management. A Ph.D. student in business information systems and education at Utah State University (USU), Swart's research areas include semantic integration, management and security of widely distributed and Web services enabled data stores, and handling threats from those seeking to disrupt or intercept information.
Swart holds a master's degree in business information systems from USU. Currently, he is special assistant to the dean in the College of Business at Utah State University.
2004: Joan A. Smith
Joan A. Smith is the eighth recipient
of the Zipf Fellowship. She is a doctoral student in
computer science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk,
Virginia.
Ms. Smith began her doctoral studies at Old Dominion
in 2002. She holds an M.A. degree in computer education
from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, and a B.A.
degree in natural science from the University of the
State of New York in Albany. Her current research focuses
on preservation of digital library resources for future
access.
2003: Terry Harrison
Mr. Harrison is the seventh recipient of the Zipf
Fellowship. He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of
Computer Science at Old Dominion University, Norfolk,
Virginia.
Mr. Harrison's research interests lie in developing
strategies and tools to keep information safe and accessible
over time. He is especially interested in building intelligence
into digital objects that hold data so that they are
less reliant on proprietary systems.
Mr. Harrison earned his B.S. degree in mass communications
from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
While pursuing his Ph.D., he is also finishing an M.S.
degree in computer science at Old Dominion University.
2002: Miles James Efron
The 2002 fellowship was awarded to Miles James Efron.
Mr. Efron is the sixth recipient of the Zipf Fellowship.
He is a Ph.D. student in Information Science at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Mr. Efron began doctoral study at the University of
North Carolina in 2000, after earning an M.S. in Information
Science from the same institution, and an A.B. in English
from Occidental College in Los Angeles. His research
focuses on how statistical methods may be used to map
information spaces to enable better access to information.
Concurrent with his doctoral studies, Mr. Efron is also
senior researcher at www.ibiblio.org, where he conducts
research and development of information retrieval technologies
for user-maintained digital libraries. He has also recently
served as a research assistant on the Tera-scale Retrieval
Project, which is creating an open-source suite of software
for large-scale information retrieval experimentation.
2001: Terence Kelly
The 2001 A. R. Zipf Fellowship in Information Management
was awarded to Terence Kelly, a Ph.D. student in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
Mr. Kelly is the fifth recipient of the Zipf Fellowship.
Mr. Kelly began doctoral study at the University of
Michigan in 1996, after earning an A.B. in History (cum
laude) from Princeton University and pursuing advanced
coursework in computer science at Princeton. His research
focuses on optimal resource allocation in hierarchical
caching systems, especially Web caching. He has spoken
and written extensively on this topic; his most recent
article, "Optimal Web Cache Sizing: Scalable Methods
for Exact Solutions" appeared in Computer Communications Vol.
24, No. 2 (February 2001).
2000: Rich Gazan
Mr. Gazan began doctoral study at UCLA in 1999 after
completing an MLIS in Library and Information Science
at the University of Hawaii. His research interests include
information retrieval, database design, and the information
industry, with a particular focus on integrating content
from disparate sources. In the decade before beginning
his Ph.D. work, he served in a variety of professional
positions, including technical writer at Citicorp, systems
analyst and database editor at Information Access Co.
(now The Gale Group), librarian at the University of
Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology,
and information scientist at SilverPlatter Information.
Martin M. Cummings, chairman of the Zipf Selection Committee
said, "Mr. Gazan has an outstanding combination of technical
skills, business knowledge, and leadership qualities.
I am pleased that this year's recipient comes from UCLA
where Mr. Zipf developed his plan for the first computer
to successfully automate the massive check processing
system used in the banking industry."
1999: Debra Ruffner Weiss
At the time she was awarded the Zipf Fellowship, Debra
Ruffner Weiss was a Ph.D. candidate in the School of
Information and Library Science at UNC at Chapel Hill.
For 10 years before starting her graduate career there,
Ms. Weiss worked in the creation of large-scale information
systems. She served as project manager and application
developer on projects that handled large data repositories
at ATT, the University of Virginia, and the Fairfax County
Office of Research and Statistics in Fairfax, Virginia.
Her research focused on developing network-based middleware
services that enable high-performance data-sharing between
Internet2 universities and, by extension, other organizations.
1998: Maureen L. Mackenzie
(updated December, 2002) Dr.
Maureen Mackenzie is a member of the faculty at Dowling
College's School of Business. She recently completed
her doctoral dissertation titled, "The Accumulation of
Information by Line Managers and the Resulting Cognitive
Savings Account." At the time she was named a Zipf Fellow,
Maureen was a doctoral student in the College of Information
and Computer Science on the C. W. Post Campus of Long
Island University. Maureen's dissertation focused on
the information behaviors of line-managers.
Dr. Mackenzie brought to her studies more than 19 years
of management experience at Allstate Insurance Company,
where she was responsible for divisions ranging in size
from 15 to 100 employees, and where she advanced through
the positions of training and development division manager,
operations development manager, shared markets field
manager, and marketing manager.
1997: John I-Chung Chuang
(updated October, 2002) At the
time he was named a Zipf Fellow, John Chuang was a doctoral
candidate in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie
Mellon University. His dissertation topic was "Economies
of Scale in Information Dissemination over the Internet." His
research identified and characterized the various economies-of-scale
conditions that can be leveraged to achieve savings in
data-dissemination applications. This knowledge was applied
toward determining the optimal pricing and efficient
allocation of network resources.
As of July 1999, John had become an assistant professor
at the School of Information Management and Systems,
University of California at Berkeley. His research and
teaching encompass the technical, economic, and policy
dimensions of computer networking, with particular emphasis
on the infrastructural foundations that support scalable
information dissemination over the global Internet.
Additional information can be found on John's Web site
at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~chuang/.
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