Dr. Furuta's current areas of research include hypermedia systems and models, structured documents and electronic publishing, document structure recognition from bitmapped sources, management systems for three-dimensional-gesture-based user interfaces, and digital libraries. He also has studied applications in computer supported cooperative work, software engineering, and visual programming. He is U.S. editor of the journal Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination, and Design (EP-odd), published by John Wiley, and has just completed a term as chair of the ACM Spe-