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Hsinchun Chen received the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY, in 1989. He is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the Karl Eller Graduate School of Business, University of Arizona. His research interests include CSCW, human-computer interactions, text-based information management and retrieval, multilingual information retrieval, internet resource discovery, knowledge acquisition and knowledge discovery, machine learning, and neural network modeling and classification. He received an NSF Research Initiation Award in 1992 and was awarded a Digital Library Initiative grant by NSF/NASA/ARPA (1994-1998) recently. Dr. Chen has published more than 20 articles in publications such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE COMPUTER, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE EXPERT, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Information Processing and Management, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, and Advances in Computers. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, AAAI and TIMS. EMAIL: hchen@bpa.arizona.edu. For access to Chen's recent publications and work:
http://bpaosf.bpa.arizona.edu:8000/

Bruce Schatz is associate professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (joint in Computer Science Department) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and research scientist at the Illinois National Center for Supercomputer Applications. He is the PI of a major NSF national Collaboratories project, ``the Worm Community Systems," 1990-1995, and a major NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Project, ``Building the Interspace," 1994-1998. Both projects aimed to create large-scale, heterogeneous digital library for scientific and biology community users. Dr. Schatz won the NSF Young Investigator Award while he was at the University of Arizona (1992-1997). He has served as a member of the National Research Council and Internet Activities Board. EMAIL: bschatz@ncsa.uiuc.edu.


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