Education, Professional Experience & Activities - Dr. Michael L. Brodie
| EDUCATION | Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Toronto (1978) | |
| M.Sc. (Computer Science), University of Toronto (1973) | ||
| B.Sc. (Mathematics and Computer Science), University of Toronto (1972) | ||
| EXPERIENCE | VERIZON, SERVICES OPERATIONS (11/2005-present) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (11/2000 to 11/2005) Chief Scientist. Dr. Brodie works on large-scale strategic Information Technology (IT) opportunities and challenges for Verizon Communications senior executives. His primary interest is in delivering business value from advanced and emerging technologies and practices to enable business objectives while optimizing and transforming IT. In addition to Computer Science he addresses business and economic issues such as computing-communications-entertainment-business convergence and the economic impact of IT. His research focus is on advanced computational models and architectures and the large-scale information systems that they must support. He is concerned with the Big Picture, business and technical contexts, core technologies, and integration within a large scale, operational telecommunications environment. | |
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Research and Community Service (on-going
activities) Dr. Brodie has an active interest in advances in the Web Sciences, Semantic Technologies, Service-Oriented Computing, information security, interoperability, information systems, databases, infrastructure and application architectures, legacy systems, business processes, experimental or domain-driven computer science, and the effective evaluation and deployment of advanced IT solutions. Dr. Brodie has authored over 150 books, chapters, journal articles, and conference papers. He has presented keynote talks, invited lectures, and short courses on many topics in over thirty countries. Dr. Brodie is a member of the United States of America National Academies Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and other National Goals, co-chaired by Dr. Charles Vest, president emeritus of MIT and Dr. William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, and commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation. He is an Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway (2006-present). He chairs three Advisory Boards – Semantic Technology Institutes International, Vienna, Austria (January 2007 – present); Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland (2003-present); Semantic Technology Institute, Innsbrück, Austria (2003-present); and is a member of several advisory boards - The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (2007 – present), Advisory Board of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2001 – present); European Union's Information Society Technologies 5th, 6th, and 7th Framework Programmes (2003-present); Forrester Research, Inc. (2006-2008); several European and Asian research projects; editorial board of several research journals; past Board member of six research foundations including the VLDB (Very Large Databases) Endowment (1992 - 2004). He is on the Advisory Board of Chamberlain Studios | ||
| VERIZON TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION (7/2000 to 11/2000) GTE and Bell Atlantic merged to form Verizon Communications June 30, 2000. | ||
| GTE LABORATORIES INCORPORATED (8/1994 to 7/2000) Senior Technologist. Michael Brodie works on large-scale strategic Information Technology (IT) challenges for GTE Corporation's senior executives. His industrial and research focus is on large-scale information systems - their total life cycle, business and technical contexts, core technologies, and "integration" within in large scale, operational environments. From 1996-2000 he had the additional role of Chief Scientist (SAP Program) where his primary focus was GTE's SAP implementation and the related 200 Enterprise Planning and Management (EP&M) systems. He co-led the EP&M Information Technology Team for the GTE-Bell Atlantic merger and was responsible for over 300 EP&M systems required to support the merged entity. From 1997-2000 he was the chairman of the Global SAP Telecommunications Special Interest Group (TSIG), an international organization of 200 Telecom organizations focused on the evolution of Enterprise Resource Planning for Telecommunications. | ||
| GTE LABORATORIES INCORPORATED (1987 to 8/1994) Manager, Distributed Object Computing Department. The Distributed Object Computing Department within GTE's Advanced Systems Laboratory manages research programs in core technology necessary for the development and operation of future cooperative information systems. Research interests include: next generation computing and applications, and relevant emerging technologies such as distributed object computing, interoperability, cooperative information systems, database technology, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and computer communications / telecommunications. | ||
| COMPUTER CORPORATION OF AMERICA, RESEARCH AND SYSTEMS DIVISION (1982-1987) Senior Computer Scientist, Database Environments Section. Research included a workbench for database design, integration of artificial intelligence and database technologies, and the application of knowledge-based technology to information system design (e.g., the Physical Database Design Advisor). Managed a large CAD/CAM DBMS project. Director of the Research Resources Section of CCA's Research and Systems Department. Principal investigator for two projects on databases and artificial intelligence: one in 1982, which resulted in the book On Conceptual Modelling: Perspectives from Artificial Intelligence, Databases, and Programming Languages ; another in 1985, which resulted in the book On Knowledge Base Management Systems: Integrating Knowledge Base and Database Technologies . | ||
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (1979-1982) Assistant Professor of Information Systems Management and Computer Science. Research focused on semantic data modeling, information system design, and applications of artificial intelligence to databases. Served as a consultant and lecturer for several government agencies and commercial organizations in more than ten countries. Chaired an ANSI committee on standardization of relational database technology. | ||
| UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Canada (1978) Assistant Professor of Computer Science | ||
| UNIVERSITÄT HAMBURG, West Germany (1978) Visiting Professor, Fachbereich Informatik | ||
| PONTIFICAL UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1976) Visiting Professor, Depto. de Informatica | ||
| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES | Member, Advisory Committee, The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (2007 – present), Chairman, Advisory Board, Semantic Technologies Institute International (2007-present); Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway (2006-present); Chairman, Advisory Board, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland (2003-present); Visiting Professor, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; Member; Member, Advisory Board, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2002-present); member of several PhD committees including Ryan Johnson, CMU (2008-present); Expert Advisor to the Information Society Technologies priority of the European Commission’s Sixth and Seventh Framework Programme (2002-present); Founding Board Member, International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS) (1995-present); Expert/Coordinator/Advisor in telecommunication and computing for the International Telecommunication Union (1996-present). Trustee, VLDB (Very Large Databases) Endowment (1992 - 2004); Member, Technical Advisory Board, Longitude Systems (with Vint Cerf, WorldCom; Michael Dell, Dell Computers) (2001); Technical Program Chair, VLDB 2000 Cairo, Egypt. Lecturer, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, graduate course in data management, Spring 2002. Advisor to NASA’s Planning Board (2001-2002). Advisor to NSF / USGS / NASA Research Directions in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics (1999-2001). Participant, US National Research Council / National Academy of Sciences activities on Computing and Humanities. Member, International Research Advisory Board of the Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology, Brisbane, Australia (1993-1998). Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems (1991-present). Chair, SAP Telecommunications Special Interest Group (T-SIG) (1998-2000); TSIG Advisory Board Member-at-Large (2000-present). Contributor, Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) 1998-99. Member, Advisory Committee ACM SIGMOD (1989-1997). Member, Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA) Scientific Committee (1991-1995). Member, Steering Committee, Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) (1993-1995). Associate editor, International Journal of Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems, World Scientific (1991-present); Series Coeditor, Topics in Information Systems, Springer-Verlag (1982-1990); Editorial Board, Information Systems Journal, Pergamon Press (1982-present); Member Advisory Committee, IRIS Division of the National Science Foundation (1988-1991); ANSI/X3/ SPARC Database Systems Study Group (1979–1982); Cofounder, Public Service Committee and Computer Ombudsman of the Canadian Information Processing Society (1975); Reviewer, IEEE Data and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Information Systems Journal, CACM, and others; participated in numerous conferences as keynote speaker, program chair, panel chair, program committee member, workshop organizer, and invited speaker. Consulted to research advisory organizations of the governments of USA, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Colombia, Brasil, Denmark, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, and the EEC. Presented between 5 and 15 per year, invited lectures and short courses on Distributed Object Computing, Database Technology, Information Engineering, CASE, Integrating AI and Database Technologies, Cooperative Information Systems, and Next Generation Database Technology in over thirty countries. | |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE | In addition to professional community service activities listed above, Dr. Brodie, as the opportunities arise, volunteers personal time to advising government and academic organizations in the developing world. Past assignments have included Columbia, Indonesia, Russia, Belarus, Brasil, and Venezuela. | |
| PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES | Member, Association of Computing Machinery (1972-present), Member, IEEE (1982-present), Federation of American Scientists (2007-present) | |
| FELLOWSHIPS |
Trinity College, University of Toronto
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