Biography William Arms is Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He has an educational background in mathematics and operational research. His career has focused on applying computing to academic activities, notably educational computing, computer networks, and digital libraries. His experience included a period at the British Open University, developing some of the first computer science courses for distance education, and many years as head of university computing at Dartmouth College and Carnegie Mellon University, when these universities were pioneering campus-wide networking and distributed computing. Digital libraries and electronic publishing are a long-standing interest and his current area of concentration.
Current projects concentrate on three major areas.
The first is scientific information, what should replace conventional journal publishing. The second is the role of research libraries, which collect information now and preserve it for use hundreds of years in the future. The third is the impact of nomadic computing on digital libraries and in education. Technical comments should be sent to CISE Webmaster . Also see Statement of Responsibility .