Richard Furuta
Professor,
Department of Computer Science
Director, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
Director Hypermedia Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
H. R. Bright Building
Texas A&M University
3112 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3112
Electronic mail: furuta@cs.tamu.edu
Telephone: (979) 845-3839
FAX: (979) 847-8578
Office: 402C H.R. Bright Building
A brief biographical sketch and a relatively
current vita (PDF)
A list of selected
projects, activities, and offices.
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Current courses (Fall 2010)
- Previous courses
- Walden's Paths--supporting
paths over the World-Wide Web
- The Cervantes Project--writings about and materials by the author of Don Quijote.
- The Texas A&M
University Biological Informatics Working Group
- Trellis, a model of interaction with a formal
hypermedia basis, and caT, a more recent project updating the
Trellis work.
- Journal-related editorships and boards
- JDL: Journal of Digital Libraries (editor-in-chief)
- JoDI: Journal of Digital Information (editorial board)
- JERIC: ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (editorial board)
- Digital Libraries Conferences
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Program Chair,
DL95, the second international conference on the theory and practice of
digital libraries, June 11-13, 1995, in Austin, TX.
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General Chair, DL94, the first international
conference on the theory and practive of digital libraries, June 19-21, 1994,
in College Station, TX.
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Program Chair, ACM DL 2000.
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Chair, steering committee, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
I was
U.S. Editor of
Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination and Design
(a journal covering electronic publishing, hypermedia, digital libraries,
and related topics). Back issues are available online, courtesy of the
University of Nottingham.
Some older research projects by my students
Past Chair, ACM
SIGLINK, the ACM's special interest group on
Hypertext and Hypermedia
Return to the 
or the 
Flying Toast (it must be multimedia...) and...
Richard Furuta, furuta@cs.tamu.edu
September 30, 2002