Dr. Edward Fox

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Professor Emeritus of Computer Science

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Dr. Edward Fox retired in December of 2024 and now serves as Faculty Emeritus of Computer Science.

His research focused on “information”, with expertise that extends to data and artificial intelligence, encompassing machine learning, computational linguistics, and natural language processing. He built his first search engine in 1980, and has held international leadership positions regarding information retrieval and digital libraries. He works with different data types including: documents, text, multimedia (esp. images but also fingerprints), hypertext/hypermedia/WWW, etc. His interests span from theory to algorithms to systems to (IRB approved) experiments with users/communities.

In collaboration with University Libraries, Dr. Fox worked on initiatives that might be helpful to those in GCC who require processing of and access to very large datasets, leverage large big data stores and the latest DevOps practices involving containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.   Dr. Fox is interested in helping those studying global change to collect and archive webpages and tweets of interest, and to assist with their analysis and exploration (search, browse, visualize). This also could lead to specialty portals on key issues and threats.