P. Bryan Heidorn
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Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 221 LIS Building 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 pheidorn@uiuc.edu(217) 244-7792 (W) (217) 244-3320 (Fax) |
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science, 1997, University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation: Natural Language Understanding for Image Retrieval
Master of Science in Information Science, 1983, University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology, summa cum laude, 1979, University of Pittsburgh
Non-Academic Experience
April 1991 to April 1993
Pittsburgh Software Company
Pittsburgh, PA
President and Principle Investor: Hazardous materials software for environmental compliance, Ben Franklin Grant from the State of Pennsylvania in coordination with the Center for Hazardous Materials Research. Designed and developed software and procedures to track and monitor emissions of hazardous materials for EPA reporting requirements.
April 1988 to April 1991
Consultant
Pittsburgh, PA
Main client McGraw Edison: Coding standards and software management for fault current interrupt commercial PC products and minor contracts with other clients.
January 1984 to April 1988
Pittsburgh Software Company
Pittsburgh, PA
Co-owner and Vice President of Operation: Managed all programming teams, technical writing, production and customer support with a peak census of 25 employees. Pittsburgh Software developed commercial software products that were marketed primarily by Fisher Scientific and McGraw Edison. Fisher’s products were primarily chemical inventory control packages and McGraw Edison’s products were CAD programs to assist engineers in the design of power distribution networks.
May 1979 to December 1983
Biometrics Research Laboratory, Highland Drive VAMC
Pittsburgh, PA
Responsible for development of computer control of psychophysiology equipment (EEG, EKG, Pupilometer), data collection and analysis and minor duties in grant writing.
Academic Experience
August, 1995 to Present
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Instructor / Assistant Professor: Teaching duties include, "Information System Automation", "Systems Analysis and Management", "Information Storage and Retrieval". Research interests include digital image storage and retrieval, natural language processing and spatial cognition.
April 1988 to July 1995
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Information Science
Pittsburgh, PA
Teaching Fellow and Doctoral Student: Primary instructor in "Assembly Language and Computer Architecture", "Human Information Processing" and "Systems Analysis and Design".
Funded Research Grants and Contracts
Jim Economy (PI); P. Bryan Heidorn (Senior Investigator); National Science Foundation; began August 1, 2002- with projected duration of 60 months; Current Year Award Amount: $4,000,000; Cumulative Award Amount: $4,130,000; Estimated Total Award Amount: $20,130,000. (Center for Advanced Materials for Water Purification)
NSF/Biological Databases and Informatics: Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Informatics: Policy and Implementation, Science versus Citizen Science. P. Bryan Heidorn. $9,228. Funding for a panel at the Joint Conference for Digital Libraries, 2002. Speakers Meredith Lane, Senior Vice President for Science & Vice President for the Biodiversity Research Group, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; Stanley D. Blum, Research Information Manager, California Academy of Sciences; Larry Speers, Senior Program Officer for Digitization of Natural History Collection Data, Global Biodiversity Information Facility; Bruce A. Stein, Vice President for Programs, NatureServe; Robert Morris, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Institute of Museum and Library Services: Illinois - North Carolina Collaborative Environment for Botanical Resources. P. Bryan Heidorn (PI), Jane Greenberg (CO-PI), Assist Professor, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Other Professional Staff at UIUC: Michael R. Jeffords, Ken Robertson, David Seigler, Beth Sandore. Senior Professional Staff at Univ. of North Carolina: Peter White, Director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Evelyn Daniel, Michelle Fox, $480,000. The main goal of this proposal is to design and build a digital collection and user interface methods for herbarium data. The system would include polyclaves for prairie and woodland environments. (Beginning December 2001) [http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/papers/IMLS_Publiccopy.pdf].
NSF/ITR/IM+EWF (Proposal #0113918): An Internet Environment for BioDiversity Survey Collaboration and Verification. P. Bryan Heidorn (PI), Michael Jeffords, Carole Palmer and Marylin Lisowski $493,993 The object of the work is integrate information retrieval with information creation and organization using mobile computing and networking. (Beginning January 2002) [http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/papers/ BDCE2001d.pdf
NSF/DUE/National SMETE Digital Library. Su-Shing Chen, Melanie J. Loots and Robert E. Magill PIs National Biology Digital Library. September 1, 2000 - August 21, 2001. $805,680 Senior Advisor.
NSF/BIO/Database Activities Research Experience for Undergraduates 2000: Computational Thesaurus Applications for Flora for the Biological Information Browsing Environment P. Bryan Heidorn (PI). August 2000 - May 2001 $15,000.
NSF/BIO/Database Activities: Biological Information Browsing Environment P. Bryan Heidorn (PI) and Michael Jeffords (CO-PI). $287,042 2 years. Visual browsing environment with faceted retrieval of full text, similarity matching and knowledge extraction. January 1, 2000 - May 31, 2002. [http://www.biobrowser.org]
Heidorn, P. Bryan (PI) Development and Testing of a Visual Information Retrieval Environment. Campus Research Board. Proposal Period June 6, 1999 - August 2000. $11,724
Heidorn, P. Bryan (PI) and Greg Newby. Microsoft Academic Cooperative Instructional Grant. For the development of LIS329 and LIS317, awarded 2/6/96, covers 2/15/97-2/15/98 renewed to 2/15/99, $57,350
T. S. Huang, Principle Investigator, P. Bryan Heidorn (Senior Investigator (one of 20)) A Shared Distributed Facility for Multimedia Signal Processing and Visualization with Applications to Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction, National Science Foundation Proposal: CISE Research Infrastructure Program (Proposal Period: July 21, 1996 - June 20, 2001) NSF $1,668,433: UIUC Matching $781,014: Total $2,449,447.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (PI). Natural Language Processing for Image Synthesis and Image Retrieval. UIUC Campus, Research Board Application, 9/11/96, $32,603.50
Heidorn, P. Bryan (PI). Design of hazardous materials tracking software system to support compliance with federal and state environmental laws. Pittsburgh Software Company Inc., Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Partnership, $35,000 cash, $29,600 in-kind. 1990.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (PI). Hazardous materials tracking software system to support compliance with federal and state environmental laws. Pittsburgh Software Company Inc., Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Partnership, $60,000 cash, $30,00 in-kind. 1991-1992.
Proposed Research Grants and Contracts
Publications
Monographs and Book Chapters
Heidorn, P. Bryan and Sandore, Beth, Eds. Digital Image Access & Retrieval. Papers presented at the 1996 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. 190p.
Heidorn, P. Bryan. Shapes from Natural Language in VerbalImage. In P. Olivier & K-P. Gapp (Eds.), Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, press date June 1997.
Hirtle, Stephen. C.& Heidorn, P. Bryan. (1993). The structure of cognitive maps: Representations and processes. In Garling, T. & Golledge, R. G. (Eds.), Behavior and Environment: Psychological and Geographical Approaches.
Journal Articles
Heidorn, P. Bryan. (2003) OpenKey: Illinois-North Carolina Collaborative Environment for Botanical Resources. , First Monday, 8(5) (May 2003). [http://firstmonday.org/]
Bruce, B. C., Bishop, A. P., Heidorn, P. B., Lunsford, K. J., Poulakos, S., & Won, M. (2003, January/February). The Inquiry Page: Bridging digital libraries to learners. Knowledge Quest, 31 (3), 13-15.
Heidorn, P. Bryan, Bharat Mehra, Mary Lokhaiser. (2002). Complementary User-Centered Methodologies for Information Seeking and Use: System’s Design in the Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE). Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 53, (14), 1251-1258. [http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/papers/Submission3.pdf]
Heidorn, P. Bryan. (2001) A Tool for Multipurpose Use of Online Flora and Fauna: The Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE), First Monday, 6(2) (February 2001). [http://firstmonday.org/]
Heidorn, P. Bryan. (1999). Image Retrieval as Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Visual Model Matching. Library Trends, Fall 1999.
Lavagnino, Merri Beth, Geof Bowker, P. Bryan Heidorn and Mindy Basi. (1998) Incorporating Social Informatics into the Curriculum for Library and Information Science Professionals. Libri 48, pp. 13-25.
Heidorn, P. Bryan., & Hirtle, Stephen. C. (1993). Is spatial information imprecise or just coarsely coded? Open Peer Commentary to Landau & Jackendoff: Spatial Language, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(2), 246-247.
Lewis, C. Michael & Heidorn P. Bryan (1991). Identifying tacit strategies in aircraft maneuvers. IEEE Transactions on Systems and Cybernetics, 21(6), 1560-1571.
Research and Technical Reports
Heidorn, P. Bryan. (1994). Automatic Content indexing in image databases. Technical Report LIS054/IS94003. Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Conference Proceedings Papers (Peer reviewed)
Heidorn, P. Bryan (2002). Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Informatics: Policy and Implementation
Science versus Citizen Science. 2002 Joint Conference for Digital Libraries, July 14-17, Portland OR. p. 362-364.
Hong, Cui & Heidorn, P. Bryan (2002). An Approach to Automatic Classification of Text for Information Retrieval. 2002 Joint Conference for Digital Libraries, July 14-17, Portland OR.
Heidorn, P. Bryan, Bharat Mehra, Mary Lokhaiser. (2001). Complementary User-Centered Methodologies for Information Seeking and Use: System’s Design in the Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE). SIG/USE 2001 Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science, November 1-5, Chicago, IL.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (2000). The Interaction of Result Set Display Dimensionality and Cognitive Factors in Information Retrieval Systems. 2000 Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science, November 1-5, Chicago, IL.
Heidorn, P. Bryan. (November, 1999) The Identification of Index Terms in Natural Language Object Descriptions. 1999 Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science, Washington D.C. 472-481.
Heidorn, P. Bryan. (October, 1998) Prototypes and Idealizations in Natural Language Shape Descriptions. 1998 Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (1995). Shapes from natural language in VerbalImage. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions, Patrick Olivier (Ed.), Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Montreal, Canada, August 19, 1995.
Heidorn, P. Bryan. (1995). Shape Language Processing and Visual Feedback for Image indexing and retrieval. ASIS-95, SIG/ALP Multimedia Panel Session, Chicago, IL., October 9-12, 1995.
Conference Proceedings (published)
Heidorn, P. Bryan (2001) Using Supercomputers to model the environment" Invited speaker, the Senior Advisory Committee of "Supercomputing and the Human Endeavor"; http://www.lanl.gov/sche/, a joint effort of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Woodrow Wilson Center. Location: the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. June 13-15, 2001. 125-136.
[http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/papers/HumanEndeavor.pdf].
Presentations
Heidorn, P. Bryan. Beyond Paper on the Web: Highly Functional Flora. Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Brown Bag Lunch Series. July 10, 2003. Fort Worth, Texas.
Heidorn, P. Bryan. Distributed Taxonomic Description and Identification. Megadiversity III: Global Access From Integrated Systems, March 31-April 1, 2003 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Heidorn, P. Bryan. Beyond Paper on the Web: Highly Functional Flora. International Symposium on Plant Diversity in East Asia. March 5-6, 2003. Taichang, Taiwan.
Heidorn, P. B. and Deem, L., 2003. OpenKey Demonstration at Web-Wise 2003 Conference. Sustaining Digital Resources. February 26-28, 2003.
Heidorn, P. Bryan & Deem, Lesley (October 16, 2002). OpenKey: An Open Architecture for Sharing Plant Descriptions . The Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG), Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD) meeting, 14-16 October 2002, Trends and Developments in Biodiversity Informatics. Indaiatuba, SP, Brazil.
Heidorn, P. Bryan & Deem, Lesley (October 20, 2002). Search Features over Semi-Structured Taxonomic Documents. Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG), Annual Meeting, 16-20 October 2002, Indaiatuba, SP, Brazil. [http://www.cria.org.br/eventos/tdbi/tdwg/TDWG_abstracts.html#heidorn]
Heidorn, P. Bryan, Bei Yu, Hong Cui, Hong Zhang, Marija Markovic, Lesley Deem, Jingbo Wu (2002). Guest Public Lecture: Beyond paper-based publishing of flora. Presentation by Missouri Botanical Garden. July 12, 2002. [http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/paper/MOBOT_descr6.pdf (or .pps)].
Heidorn, P. Bryan (December 17, 2001) Building a Global Biology Digital Library: Progress toward taxonomic data standards: The 2001 Taxonomic Data Working Group meeting. Presented at the Illinois Natural History Survey. [http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/papers/TDWG2001INHS.PDF (or .pps)] .
Heidorn, P. Bryan, Hong Cui, Jingbo Wu, Bei Yu, and Hong Zhang (2001) Taxonomic Description Creation, Search and Display in XML Taxonomic Data Working Group Annual Meeting, Sydney Australia, November 9-12. [http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/papers/TDWG2001Heidorn2.pps]
Heidorn, P. Bryan (August 7, 2001) Illinois: Land Biodiversity. AmericaView's Research/Education Consortium Annual Meeting, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls SD. August 7-8, 2001. Presentations Available on line. [http://americaview.usgs.gov/resources/conferences.html]
Heidorn, P. Bryan (June 9, 2001) Invited Speaker, "The National Biology Digital Library for Education", Association of Systematics Collections, Chicago, Illinois, June 8-9, 2001. [http://www.ascoll.org/annualmeeting/2001/2001annlmtg.htm]
Heidorn, P. Bryan (April 2, 2001) Invited Speaker, "Biodiversity Informatics and GIS", Gateway to Earth / America View Conference, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (July 20, 2000) Invited Speaker, "Student created Species Fact Sheets", Project Applications and Connections to Technology that are Integrated and Organized around the Sciences (ACTION), PLAN-IT Earth, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, July 20, 2000.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (July 2000). "Extraction of Character States from Taxonomic Treatments of Flora". Workshop on U.S.-Australia Interactions in Biological Informatics, July 10-12th at the American Type Culture Collection in Manassas, Virginia. Collaboration between NSF and Australian Research Council.
Guest Public Lecture: Missouri Botanical Garden Botanical Information Browsing December 16, 1999.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (October, 1999). Demonstration of Biological Information Browsing Environment. 1999 Taxonomic Database Working Group Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A, 29-31 October 1999.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (1998). Case Based Group Projects Any-Time / Any-Place. Library and Information Technology Association Panel Session: Roles & Realities in Distance Education at the American Library Association Annual Conference Washington D.C.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (1997). Natural Language Understanding of Flora Descriptions. Guest lecture Center for Biological Informatics, at the Missouri Botanical Garden, August 1, 1997.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (1996). Toward computer understanding of natural language description of objects. Invited talk. ECAI-96 Workshop on Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96), Budapest, Hungary, August 1996.
Heidorn, P. Bryan. Invited Talk. Shape Language and Image Retrieval, Beckman Institute Seminar Series in Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence and Image Formation and Processing groups. Beckman Institute, October 18, 1995.
Miscellaneous
Heidorn, P. Bryan (1998) Book Review of The Perception of Visual Information (2nd ed.) W. Hendee. P. Wells. Springer-Verlag, New York (1997), xviii+ 409 pp. ISBN 0-387-94910-0. Information Processing & Management, p. 498-499.
Heidorn, P. Bryan (1996), Overview and Edit, 33rd Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: Digital Image Access and Retrieval, Library Hi Tech News, 1996.
Heidorn, P. Bryan. (1996). Book Review of Natural Language Processing, Fernando Pereira and Barbara Grosz (Eds.) in Information Processing and Management, 32(1), p 122-123.
Selected Service
Reviewer: International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, 2003
Reviewer: JASIST, 2003
Reviewer: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2002
Invited Speaker (April 12, 2003) "Illinois Schools Flora and Fauna" TIE--INS Institute (Technology, Inquiry, Environment – Investigations & the Nature of Science)
Tri-Valley High School, IL. (50 teachers) [http://www.siue.edu/OSME/river]
Reviewer: The Internet Encyclopedia, Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.
Invited Speaker (Oct 4-5, 2002). "Computer-based keys, classification and Environmental Research" TIE--INS Institute (Technology, Inquiry, Environment – Investigations & the Nature of Science)
October 4-5, 2002 at EIU in Charleston, IL. [http://www.siue.edu/OSME/river/TECI-TOTS-TOPS/tieins.htm]
Panel Moderator: Panel on Constructive Data Management. New Frontiers in Biocomplexity and Biodiversity an Olga G. Nalbandov Symposium University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
February 7-10, 2002
Invited Speaker (August 7, 2001). "Illinois: Land Biodiversity." AmericaView's Research/Education Consortium Annual Meeting. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center (EDC) August 7–8, 2001, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. [http://americaview.usgs.gov/resources/conferences.html]
Invited Speaker (August 4, 2001). "Visual Methods for Finding XML Documents in Biology and Education." Biology Student Workbench: A Workshop about Integrating Bioinformatics into Biology, Science Education, Teacher Education, and Educational Technology Courses. August 3-5, 2001 Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science, and Software Arlington, VA.
Invited Speaker (July 19, 2001). "Digital Libraries and ID tools for Biology" at the TECI Institutes for Secondary School Teachers and TOTS Institutes for Middle School Teachers at EIU-Charleston, July 15-20, 2001. http://www.siue.edu/OSME/river/SAMP_files/TECI_TOTS_Cha.html.
Invited Speaker (April 21, 2001) "Digital Libraries and ID tools for Biology" at the TECI Institutes for Secondary School Teachers at Woodstock, Illinois, April 20-21, 2001.
Invited Speaker (March 16, 2001) "Digital Libraries and ID tools for Biology" at the TECI Institutes for Secondary School Teachers at Peoria, Illinois, March 15-18, 2001.
Speaker (May 2, 2001) Knowledge Management in a Global Economy: Implementation of Information Storage and Retrieval Systems and Database Federation, Knowledge Management Seminar Series, National Technical University. http://www.ntu.edu/webcal/webcal3_month.asp?CHANNEL=ALL
National Science Foundation, Reviewer 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Invited Biosciences Workshop Participant for conference planning. Invited by the Senior Advisory Committee of "Supercomputing and the Human Endeavor"; http://www.lanl.gov/sche/, a joint effort of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Woodrow Wilson Center. Location: the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. February 14th, 2001.
Invited Workshop Participant on Computer Augmented Identification, U.S.-Australia Interactions in Biological Informatics, at the American Type Culture Collection in Manassas, Virginia July 10-12th, 2000.
Paper Review, Cognitive Development, 2000, Peter Bryant, Editor.
External Reviewer, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Information Science, 2000 Orner Award Committee, which is given each year is given for the best scholarly paper in information science suitable for publication. 2000.
ASIS Panel Organizer and Moderator. ASIS Conference, Nov. 2, 1999
Automatic Techniques for the Visualization of Semantics in Text
Chair-elect of the Applied Language Processing SIG of the American Society for Information Science 1999-2000.
Member, Campus Computing and Networking Committee, UIUC 1995-1999.
Chair, poster session 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, Philadelphia, PA. July, 23-26, 1997
Co-chair Heidorn, P. Bryan and Sandore, Beth. 33rd Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data -Processing: Digital Image Access and Retrieval, March 24-26, 1996.