Table of Contents

• Awards
• Keynote Speaker
• Editorial Services
• Professional Society Services
• Conference Organizing
• Session Chair
• University Services
• Invited Academic Lectures
• Miscellaneous

Awards

• Recipient of 1990 Ida and George Eliot Prize for published work most furthering cause of medical librarianship.
• My team of students won the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) first-place award for best online introduction to ICI (1991).
• Elected ACM Fellow in March 1995
• Honorable Mention in Microsoft "Innovator in Higher Education Challenge" September 1997.
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (www.himss.org) 'Special Interest Group' Outstanding Member Award 2001.

Keynote Speaker

Rada has been keynote speaker at:

• ENABLE '99 "Workflow and Virtual Education", June 4, 1999, Espoo-Vanta Institute of Technology, Espoo, Finland.
• Web Fest '99 May 26, 1999, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
• ED-MEDIA & ED-TELECOM '98 Freiburg, Germany June 22, 1998. Talk entitled "Virtual Education Manifesto: Where are we going Technologically and Market-wise?"
• Conference entitled "Integrating Technology into the Teacher Education Curriculum" sponsored by Northwest Regional Education Laboratory and held in Portland, Oregon September 18-20, 1997. Talk about the virtual education manifesto.
• Rose-Hulman Institute 123rd Opening Ceremonies in Terre Haute, Indiana on August 29, 1997. Talk entitled Virtual Education Manifesto for Private Universities.
• 6th Korea Telecom International Symposium (KTIS'96) in Seoul, Korea on Nov. 29, 1996. Talk entitled Virtual Education for Telecommunications.
• Hypertext - Information Retrieval - Multimedia -- HIM'95 in Konstanz, Germany, April 1995.
• Hypermedia '92 Conference, Pretoria, South Africa.
• Pacific Rim AI Conference '92, Seoul, Korea.
• Keynote speaker on "Connecting Information Systems" to Annual Computer Museum Network Workshop in New Orleans, Louisiana in November 1986 (abstract of talk distributed in published proceedings).
• Keynote speaker at Expersys-89, October 23, 1989 in Paris, France. Talk title "Expertext: the synergy of expert systems and hypertext".
• International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning in London, England, August 1984.

Editorial Services

Rada is on the editorial board of these journals:

1. Interactive Learning Environments
2. International Journal of E-adoption (IJEA) from IGI first published 2008
3. International Journal of Intelligent Decision Technologies published by IOS Press since 2007
4. International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education
5. International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research since 2002
6. International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking from IGI, Vol. 1, No. 1 January 2009
7. International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology published by Inderscience, Editor Lorna Uden.
8. International Scholarly Research Notices from 2014
9. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications from Kluwer
10. Smart Homecare Technology and TeleHealth

1. Founding and Advisory Board of Interacting with Computers from British Computer Society
2. Advisory Board of Advances in Web-based Learning which is a book series from Idea Group Publishing.
3. Editorial Advisory Board of Distance Learning Technology, Current Instruction, and the Future of Education: Applications of Today, Practices of Tomorrow which is a book from IGI Global to appear 2009.

Formerly editorial board member for

• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
• Expert Systems with Applications from 1991 to 2014.
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics from IEEE Press, 1991-2004
• Artificial Intelligence Review 1989-1998
• International Journal of Information Technology 1993-2004
• Continuing Professional Development from MCB Press 1997-2000
• Mental Health HIPAA from Coding Institute, 2000-2004
• Geriatric Coding and Reimbursement Alert from Coding Institute 2000-2004
• Computers & Education 1990-1997
• Hypermedia 1989-1996
• Information and Decision Technologies 1988-1995
• Information Processing and Management 1985-2001
• Intelligent Tutoring Media, 1990-1998
• International Journal of Knowledge Organization (formerly know as Inter'l Jr. of Classification) 1988-1996
• International Journal of Failures and Lessons Learned in Information Technology Management 1995-1999
• International Journal of Applied Software Technology 1994-1997
• StandardView from ACM Press from 1993-1999
• Virtual University Journal from MCB Press from 1995-2000
• ISRN Artificial Intelligence from 2009-2014
• The Open Operational Research Journal from 2007 to 2014
• New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2005

Professional Society Services

• offered public comment to the National Committee on Vital and HealthStatistics Subcommittee on Standards and Security about 'best practices' for HIPAA compliance, Oct. 21, 2002 at Hubert Humphreys Building in Washington, D.C.
• invited expert witness to the American College of Cardiology "Task Force on Clinical Science and Quality of Care", December 2001-January 2002.
• member Information Technology Advisory Committee of the American Association Healthcare Commission (www.urac.org), 2001-.
• member Advisory Board of HIPAAdocs (www.hipaadocs.com), 2001-.
• panelist on HIMSS Certification Exam development. Participated in 2-day workshop in Chicago May 16-17, 2001 on developing test items.
• Chair of the "Health Information Management and Systems Society" Special Interest Group on HIPAA since February 2001.
• HIPAA Expert for "Health Information Management and Systems Society" HIMSS Advocacy Committee.
• Chairman of Board of Directors of the Globewide Network Academy since fall 1997.
• Member of Steering Committee of Imaging and Graphics Business Team of JTC 1 of ISO/IEC from spring 1998-now
• Member IEEE P1484 committee on standards for educational technology.
• Member NSF Education Committee on Strategic Directions for Computing Research. Attended meeting at MIT on June 15, 1996.
• Member ACM Committee to Update Computing Classification Structure. 1996-1997
• Vice-Chair of Association Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Biomedical Computing (SIGBIO) 1997-now. (Rada was Editor of ACM SIGBIO Newsletter, 1982-1987, Vice-Chair of ACM SIGBIO, 1987-1990, and Chair 1990-1997).
• Project Team Leader for Committee European Normalization (CEN) Medical Informatics Vocabulary (CEN TC251 PT001), 1992-1994.
• Charter Member ACM SIG Technical Standards Committee, 1992-now. Secretary to Technical Standards Committee 1996-now
• Member `International Association Knowledge Engineers'- UK Executive Committee, 1992-1994.
• Member Scientific Advisory Council of International Society of Knowledge Organization, 1991-now
• Member Senior Medical Editors Committee 1985-1988

Conference Organizing

Rada has helped organize conferences:

• member Program Committee SIIT 2015 Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, September 2015, at Sunnyvale, California. San Jose State University.
• member Program Committee of ECTA 2014 (“International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications”) October 16-18, 2014, Rome, Italy.
• member Program Committee "5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education" (CSEDU 2013), May 6-8, 2013, Achen, Germany.
• member Program Committee “2nd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems” - ICORES 2013, 16-18 Feb 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
• member Program Committee SIIT 2013 Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, 24 - 26 September 2013, at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
• member Program Committee 2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2012, 19-21 May 2012, Yantai, China; http://ICSAI2012.ytu.edu.cn).
• member Program Committee International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2012, April 16-18, 2012, Porto, Portugal.
• member Program Committee Workshop on Decision Guidance and Support Systems (DGSS) for ICDE (International Conference on Data Engineering), April 2012 in Washington, DC
• member Program Committee International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2011, May 6-8, 2011, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands.
• member Program Committee “1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems” - ICORES 2012, 4-6 Feb 2012, Algarve, Portugal.
• member Program Committee First International Conference on Massive Information Sharing and Integration (MISI 2011), Special Track on Electronic Healthcare, August 22-25th, 2011 in Vienna (Austria).
• member Program Committee Intelligent Decision Technologies 2011 (IDT'11), Piraeus, Greece, 20-22, July 2011.
• member Program Committee 2011 IADIS International Conference E-Society, March 10-13, 2011, Avila, Spain.
• member Program Committee 10th International Multidisciplinary Conference on e-Commerce and e-Government, 18-20 October 2010, Wisla, Poland.
• member Program Committee Intelligent Decision Technologies 2010 (IDT'10), Baltimore, MD, 28-30, July 2010.
• member Program Committee 2010 IADIS E-Society Conference, Porto, Portugal, 18 to 21 March 2010.
• member Program Committee International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2010, April 7-10, 2010, Valencia, Spain.
• member Program Committee 6th International Conference on STANDARDIZATION and INNOVATION in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SIIT2009), 8-10 September 2009, Tokyo, Japan.
• member Program Committee International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2009, March 23-26, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.
• member Program Committee 1st International Conference on Reforming Education, June 10-12, 2009, Athens, Greece.
• member Program Committee 4th Montreal Conference on e-Technologies, May 2-4, 2009, Ottawa, Canada
• member Program Committee 2009 IADIS E-Society Conference, February 25-28, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
• member Program Committee 2008 Workshop on "Web Science: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence" at ACM Conference on Hypertext (2008) - June 19, (Pittsburgh, PA).
• member Program Committee 2008 IADIS E-Society Conference, April 9-12, 2008, Algrave, Portugal.
• member Program Committee, Workshop on PROducing Standards for the 'Internet of Things', at International Conference on the 'Internet of Things' Zurich, 26 - 28 March 2008.
• member Program Committee 2008 Montreal Conference on e-Technologies (www.mcetech.org), January 2008, Montreal, Canada
• member Program Committee SIIT2007 Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, October 18-19, 2007, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
• member Program Committee 2007 IADIS E-Society Conference, July 3-6, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
• member Program CommitteeConference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Sept. 6-7, 2006, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
• member Program Committee 2006 IADIS E-Society Conference, July 13-16, 2006, Dublin, Ireland, http://www.iadis.org/es2006/
• member Program Committee The 2006 Montreal Conference on e-Technologies (www.mcetech2006.org), May 17-19, 2006, Montreal, Canada
• member Scientific Committee 2005 IADIS E-Society Conference, 27-30 June 2005, Malta.
• member Program Committee 4th IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Sept. 21-23, 2005, Geneva, Switzerland.
• member Program Committee 2005 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference in San Diego, California, May 15-18, 2005.
• member Scientific Committee 2004 IADIS E-Society Conference, July 16-19, 2004 – Spain
• member Program Committee 2004 Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, October 10-13, 2004 – The Hague, Netherlands
• member Program Committee 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2004), August 30 - September 1, 2004 at Joensuu, Finland.
• member Program Committee 2003 IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Oct. 22-24, 2003, Delft, Netherlands.
• member Scientific Committee IADIS International Conference, e-Society 2003, Lisbon, Portugal, 3-6 June 2003, http://www.iadis.org/es2003/
• member Program Committee 2003 Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference
• member Program Committee 2002 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'2002), Sept. 16-19, 2002, Kazan, Russia.
• member Program Committee World Conference NL 2002 - Networked Learning in a Global Environment: Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education, May 1 - 4, 2002, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
• member Program Committee 2001 IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Oct. 3-5, 2001, Boulder, Colorado.
• member Program Committee of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'2001), Aug 6-9, 2001, Madison, Wisconsin.
• member Programme Committee of "Euromicro Workshop on Multimedia and Telecommunication" Maastricht, Netherlands, Sept. 4-7, 2000
• member International Program Committee for International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, Istanbul, Turkey on July 3-5, 2000. Okyay Kaynak General Co-Chair kaynak@boun.edu.tr
• program committee "Internet and Multimedia Systems Applications" to be held in Grand Bahamas, in mid-October 1999.
• program committee "IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems '99". Florence, Italy, June 7-11, 1999.
• Advisory Committee for "First International Forum on Multimedia & Image Processing" in Anchorage, Alaska, May 10-14, 1998 (see http://ace.unm.edu/wac98/).
• program committee for the Nineth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE97) for June 18 - 20, 1997 in Madrid, Spain.
• Program review committee member for ACM Multimedia '96, November 18-22, 1996 in Boston.
• Program committee member for
  • ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM '99, Seattle, Washington June 19-24, 1999.
  • ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM '98, Freiburg, Germany, June 20-25, 1998.
  • ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM '97, Calgary, Canada June 14-19, 1997.
  • ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM '96, Boston in June 1996.
• Program committee member for 5th Software Quality Conference, July 9-10, 1996.
• Technical Program Committee member of "Multimedia and Collaborative Environments Workshop" at Fifth IEEE Intern'l Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing in August 1996 in Syracuse, NY.
• Program Committee member of Digital Libraries '96 Bethesda, Maryland, March 1996.
• Program Committee member of Second ISMM Intern'l Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications, August 1995 in Palo Alto, California.
• Program Committee member of ACM Multimedia '95, San Francisco, November 1995.
• Conference Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia '93 in Los Angeles in August 1993
• Conference Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia '94 in San Francisco in November 1994.
• Chair of CD-ROM Production for Multimedia '93.
• Chair of Electronic Publishing for Multimedia'94.
• Workshop co-chair on Medical Multimedia at Multimedia '93 in Los Angeles in August 1993.
• Conference Co-Chair of
  • First World Congress on Expert Systems in December 1991 in Orlando, Florida
  • Second World Congress on Expert Systems in January 1994 in Lisbon, Portugal
  • Third World Congress on Expert Systems in February 1996 in Seoul, Korea.
  • Fourth World Congress on Expert Systems to be held in 1998
• Member Steering Committee for Symposium Applied Computing '97 in San Jose, California.
• Conference Co-Chair of
  • Symposium Applied Computing '94 in March 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona;
  • Symposium Applied Computing '95 in March 1995 in Memphis, Tennessee;
  • Symposium Applied Computing '96 in February 1996 in Philadelphia, PA
• Program Committee of ACM SIGIR '90, Brussels and ACM SIGIR '92 Conference in Copenhagen.
• Workshop co-chair on Intelligent Hypertext at Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1993 and on Smart Hypertext at Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Nov. 1994.
• Judge for Student Paper Competition "Ninth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care" 1985.
• Program Committee for Third Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Ada, George Mason University, May 1987.

Session Chair

Rada has been a conference session chair many times and a partial listing of these activities is here attached:

• Chaired session entitled "Healthcare Strategies and Provision" on July 14, 2006 for e-Society 2006: IADIS International Conference conference chaired by Pedro Isaias, Maggie McPherson, and Frank Bannister for International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), conference held on July 13-16, 2006, in Dublin, Ireland.
• Chaired technical session entitled "Usability" at Montreal Conference on ETechnologies 2005 on Jan. 21, 2005 in Montreal from 10:30-12.
• Chaired full day HealthCare Leaders Roundtable entitled 'HIPAA Privacy and Security' in Nashville, Tennessee on June 6, 2002.
• Chaired a session on "Problem-Solving" at International Congress Cybernetics 1983.
• Chaired a session on "Pattern Recognition" at Internationl Conference Society General Systems Research 1983.
• Chaired a session "Knowledge-Based Systems" at Society Computer Applications in Medical Care 1984.
• Chaired a session "Creation of Expertise" at Conference Intelligent Systems and Machines, 1984, Oakland, Michigan.
• Chaired a session on "Artificial Intelligence and Society" at Conference Computers and Society Detroit, Michigan, April 1984.
• Chaired Session on "Language, Text, and the User Interface" at Ninth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 1985.
• Vice-Chair and Session Chair of the Intelligent Information Retrieval track at the October 1985 "Expert Systems in Government Conference".
• Chaired Session on "Coding and Classification" at Proceedings MEDINFO 86.
• Chaired Session at "Second Annual Symposium on Role of Langauge in Problem Solving", April 2, 1986, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
• Chaired Session on Expertext at First World Congress on Expert Systems in Orlando in 1991.
• Panel chair on Electronic Publishing at Multimedia '93 in Los Angeles in August 1993.
• Chaired Session on Expertext in Medicine at Second World Congress on Expert Systems in Lisbon in 1994.
• Chaired Panel on Expertext in Engineering at Second World Congress on Expert Systems in Lisbon in 1994.

University Services

At the University of Liverpool Rada was a member of the:

• University Academic Services Committee,
• University Advisory Group on Computing and Information Technology,
• University Teaching and Learning Committee,
• Department Equipment Committee,
• Department Research Committee, and
• was Director of the Department Seminar Series.

At Washington State University, Rada's services included:

• Chair of the Virtual University Task Force from September 1995 through May 1996. (The 50 member, multi-campus Virtual University Task Force was run via email and the Web).
• Virtual University Academic Officer from September 1995 through May 1996.
• Senator to the WSU Faculty Senate from Spring 1996 through July 1998.
• Member of the Virtual WSU Steering Committee from Fall 1996 through July 1998.
• Member of the AdHoc Telecommunications Committee that reports to the President of WSU from October 1995 till July 1998.

At University of Maryland Baltimore County, Rada's record includes:

• University System of Maryland-wide:
  • Representative from UMBC to CUSF (Council of University System Faculty). Meets monthly at another university with representatives from all universities. To address concerns of faculty to system. I am also on CUSF Committee for Faculty Benefits and Grievances
• university-wide:
  • SA (Student Advising) Academic Advisory Committee 2012-2013 -- monthly meetings for guidance on implementation of enterprise-wide system to support students. I am the Faculty Senate Representative to the Advisory Committee
  • Member Faculty Senate -- 2007 through 2013
  • member University Library Policy Committee 2009-2011
  • member Blackboard Advisory Group 2012-
  • elected by department to be University Faculty Senator 2006-2007, 2007-2009, 2009-2011
  • elected by faculty senate to be on University Faculty Review Committee 2007-2009
  • Technology Enhanced Learning Committee, July 1999-Dec. 2001
  • Information Technology Steering Committee, July 1999-Dec. 2001
  • member "Center for Information Security and Assurance" 2000-2001
  • University System of Maryland, Intellectual Property Committee, Dec. 1999-Dec. 2000.
• department specific:
  • Chair Departmental Library Committee 2010-2012
  • Chaired Department Promotion and Tenure Committee for Zhiyuan Chen tenure case (2009)
  • member Department Assessment Committee (2008-2009)
  • Chaired 5-year review case for Eugene Canfield (2008)
  • Chaired contract renewal case for Sreedevi Sampath (2008)
  • chaired Department Promotion and Tenure Committee for Lina Zhou (2006)
  • member department committee for recruiting students (2005-2007)
  • Chair of Dept. Information Systems Library Committee from 2000-2006
  • Member Departmental Undergraduate Committee 2002-2007
  • Graduate Committee, August 1999- June 2001
  • Research Committee, August 1999- June 2001
  • Flexible Master's Committee, serve as Chair, July 1999- August 2001
  • Promotion and Tenure Committee, August 1999- August 2001
  • Chair Search Committee, August 2001-May 2002.

Invited Lectures

• invited lecture entitled "progressive, irreversible, multifacetted radiation long-term effects call for continual, symptomatic, multi-disciplinary support : one case" at 14th Annual Conference on Head and Neck Rehabilitation at Greater Baltimore Medical Center on October 28, 2011 in Baltimore, MD
• Invited lecturer and panelist for "Electronic Health Records" at University of Quebec at Montreal on May 19, 2006 in Montreal, canada. My 30-minute speech was entitled "Interoperable Electronic Health Records in the US: Challenges and HIPAA". Other speakers included senior government officials from the federal government (Canada Infoway) and provincial government, an executive from a vendor called Emergis, and another academic.
• invited speaker "Software for Patient-Patient Discussions" at Univery of Quebec at Montreal, Department of Computer Science, Seminar Series, January 20, 2005.
• invited speaker "Aging System" and "Characterizing Discipline" at Univery of Maryland Baltimore Informatics and Human Factors Journal Club, Tuesday, October 19, 2004.
• invited speaker "Online Patients and Adverse Effects and Literature", Johns Hopkins Healthcare Informatics Seminar Series, Oct. 29, 2004.
• invited speaker for University Physicians Incorporated Information Technology staff on subject of "The Human Factor in Successful Information Systems Deployment", June 21, 2002 in Baltimore, MD.
• invited speaker for 'Physician Assistants Foundation' on subject of 'HIPAA for Physician Assistants' at American Academy of Physician Assitants Annual Conference in Boston, MA on May 29, 2002.
• Key speech on "HIPAA and the School of Medicine" at all-day "HIPAA Retreat" for the University of Maryland School of Medicine, November 2001.
• Seminar speaker on "HIPAA and Physical Therapy" at Department of Physical Therapy, University of Maryland Health Science Center, June 4, 2001.
• Panel speaker "Programs in the Pipeline: A Survey of Online Programs at USM to Begin Next Academic Year", University System of Maryland, 'Toward Excellence in Cyberspace: Evaluating Teaching and Learning', May 22-23, 2000 at Institute of Education at University of Maryland University College.
• Presentation to 'Technology Enhanced Learning' Brown Bag Seminar at UMBC about Flexible Master's Degree in Nov. 1999
• Presentation to 'Technology Enhanced Learning' Brown Bag Seminar at UMBC about Maryland Higher Education Council "Faculty Empowerment through Common Tools" in December 1999
• Talk "Research Directions" to College of Library and Information Service, University of Maryland at College Park, Sept. 10, 1999.
• Talk "Electronic Educational Organization" to Pace Univ. School of CS&IS Semi-Annual Research Day Dec 15, 1998 in mid-town Manhattan.
• Talk to Pace University Honor's Students entitled "Building the Virtual School" on Nov. 3, 1998.
• Tutorial on "Workflow Management in Virtual Education" at EdMedia'98 in Freiburg, Germany on June 20, 1998.
• Presentation at "Computer Education Management Association" Western Regional Conference in San Jose, California on Nov. 7, 1997 about "CEdMA and VITC".
• Presented Poster at "Lifelong Learning Conference" funded by Kellogg Commission. Poster entitled "Virtual Information Technology College and GNA". Nov. 5, 1997 in Pullman, Washington.
• Workshop entitled "Creating the Virtual Higher Education Organization" at SIG Computer Science Education Technical Symposium '97 in San Jose, California on Feb. 28, 1997.
• Guest lecturer/consultant on "A Business Plan for Virtual Higher Education to Institutes" to A*DEC Board of Directors Meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho on June 13, 1996.
• Invited lecturer at Gallup Annual Conference, lecturer entitled "New World of Virtual Organizations and Education: Extending the Business Plan for You and Your Client" in Lincoln, Nebraska from 3 p.m to 5 p.m. on June 6, 1996.
• Lecture on "Commercial Virtual Universities" to Board of Directors of Gallup International Research and Education Center in Lincoln, Nebraska on June 3, 1996.
• Live lecture, cable broadcast, and archived for video redistribution -- entitled "Virtual University and WWW" at University of Idaho on Feb. 27, 1996
• Guest Lecture to University of Nebraska at Lincoln Center for Communication and Information Sciences on Feb. 15, 1996 entitled "Coordinating the Virtual University"
• Speech entitled `The Meaning of Virtual' presented to Dean's Council Retreat, August 28, 1995, Pullman.
• Spoke on `Industry and Academia in Virtual WSU' to Jeff Raikes (Senior Vice-President Microsoft North America), Bert Kolde (former President of Asymmetrix) and others at Workshop at WSU Vancouver on Sept 9, 1995 and other such speeches in Vancouver and Seattle on Dec. 9 and Feb. 12.
• Speech entitled `Quantity versus Quality in Virtual WSU' presented to 200 top leaders of WSU at WSU Leadership Conference, September 15, 1995 in Grand Ballroom WSU, Pullman.
• Gave talk on panel at Multimedia'93 in Los Angeles on August 4, 1993.
• Co-chaired and gave talk at workshop entitled `Multimedia and Medical Education' in Los Angeles on August 2, 1993.
• Speaker at `Mathematics and Computer Science Teachers Conference' at Univ. Liverpool July 7th, 1993 on topic `Multimedia and Computer-supported Cooperative Work'.
• Speaker at Europe/USA Medical Informatics Standards meetings in Geneva, Sept. 11, 1992
• Invited Speaker at Korea Telecom, Seoul, Sept. 14, 1992.
• Invited Speaker at Dept. Computer Science, Korea University, Seoul, Sept. 16.
• Invited speaker at `Hipertexto' in Bucaramanga, Colombia April 6-10, 1992 at University Industrial Santander.
• Lecture at Medical Research Council in Cape Town, South Africa on March 16, 1992 with topic `Medical Decision Making'.
• Lecture at Workman's Compensation Company in Pretoria, South Africa on March 17, 1992 on `Expert Systems in Compensation'.
• Lecture at Xcel Computer Information Systems Corporation in Pretoria, South Africa on `Training and Hypermedia', March 17, 1992.
• Workshop on `Hypertext: from Text to Expertext' in Pretoria at CSIR on March 20, 1992.
• Invited speaker at Asea Brown Boveri in Heidelberg, Germany, March 11, 1992 with title of `Collaborative Reusable Hypermedia: the MUCH System'
• Poster session called `Time and Role of Audt in Medical Outpatients -- Computer Simulation', P Reed, J Barlow, R Rada, RHT Edwards, poster presentation, Friday April 10, 1992 Association of Physicians, Royal Liverpool Hospital.
• Talk `Collaborative Work in Hypertexts' at Multimedia Workshop on Feb. 19, 1992 in Senate House at Univ. Liverpool.
• Talk on `Groupware, Hypermedia, Reuse, and Publishing' September 25, 1991 at Computer Resources International, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Talk on `Creating Hypertext from Text' to School of Computers Studies at Sunderland Polytechnic, Sunderland, England, on February 13, 1991.
• Talked on panel on `Electronic Publishing' at European Conference on HyperText, November 29, 1990, Versailles, France.
• Talk entitled `Hypertext: from Text to Expertext' to Hypertext Update, October 16, 1990, London, England.
• Talk entitled `Converting a Text to Hypertext: Guide, SuperBook, and HyperTies' to Hypertext Update, October 16, 1990, London, England.
• Talk entitled `Connecting Patient Records with Medical Literature' to Medical Informatics in Europe, August 21, 1990 in Glasgow, Scotland.
• Talk entitled `Maintaining Thesauri and Metathesauri' to First International Conference ISKO-Conference on Tools for Knowledge Organization and the Human Interface, August 13, 1990 in Darmstadt, Germany.
• Talk on `Hypertext Scope' to Central Intelligence Agency, Division of Research and Technology, in Rosslyn, Virginia, on July 11, 1990 as guest of Mark Zimmerman
• Talk on `Collaborative Biological Work' at Biomatrix Workshop at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia on July 10, 1990.
• Talk on `Converting Text to SuperBook' at BellCore in Morristown, New Jersey on July 13, 1990.
• Talk on `Converting Text to HyperTies' at Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland on July 24, 1990.
• Talk on `Expertext for Medical Care and Literature Retrieval' at AIMCOM Workshop in Brussels on June 1, 1990.
• Invited lecturer at University of Exeter on November 17, 1989 on topic of hypertext.
• Invited lecturer at University of Sussex on June 13, 1989 on topic of hypertext.
• Invited lecturer at British Computer Society Young Professionals Annual Conference on April 15, 1989 in York, England. Talk title "Document Creation in Offices".
• Invited lecturer at British Computer Society HCI Specialist Group Meeting in London on February 23, 1989. Talk title "Hypertext and Collaborative Authoring".
• Invited lecturer at University of Edinburgh "Workshop on the Uses of Hypertext in Teaching, Learning, and Research" on November 9, 1988. My talk titled "Writing and Reading Hypertext".
• Invited lecturer at Technische Universitat Wien, Austria and University of Mannheim, West Germany on topic "Building Expert Interfaces to Document Systems" on May 26 and 27, 1987.
• Invited lecturer at Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, Netherlands on February 5, 1987.
• Invited, guest speaker at 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science in Chicago, Illinois on September 29, 1986. Topic "Artificial Intelligence and Subject Access".
• Invited lecturer to International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning in London, England, on topic "A Learning System for Computed Tomography", August 25, 1984.

Miscellaneous

Reviews and References

• Reviewed a research proposal to US National Science Foundation for its Robust Intelligence unit.
• Was an external reviewer for a faculty member to be promoted to the rank of full professor.

Invited Administrative Lectures

• HIPAA
  • "HIPAA and Security" to Trinity Health Systems, June 7, 2001.
  • "HIPAA Compliance" to Staten Island University Hospital, May 22, 2001.
• Online Masters Degree
  • Presentation at Open University in Milton Keynes, England about Flexible Master's Degree on Dec. 9, 1999,
  • Presentation to Bell Atlantic on Flexible Master's Degree in Alexandria, Virginia, September, 1999.
  • Presentation to UMBC Provost's Council on Flexible Master's Degree on Oct. 4, 1999
  • Presentation on Maryland Higher Education Council "Faculty Empowerment through Common Tools" Director's Meeting in College Park, Maryland in January 2000.
  • Presentation to UMBC Provost's Council on April 5, 2000 on Flexible Master's Degree
  • Presentation to Maryland Applied Information Technology Initiative, Director's Meeting held at UMBC on April 6, 2000 on Flexible Master's Degree