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- 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 of the National Academy of
Engineering and Dr. William Perry, former US Secretary of Defense, and
commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science
Foundation.
- Member of the
VLDB (Very Large Databases) Endowment
(1992 - 2004)
- Member of Client Advisory Board,
Forrester Research, Inc.
(2006-2008)
- Founding
Board Member, International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS)
(1995-present)
- Expert/Coordinator/Advisor in telecommunication and computing
for the International Telecommunication Union (1996-2003)
- 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, Belarus, Ukraine, and the EEC.
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