Craig W. Thompson, PhD. Professor Emeritus (retired August, 2014) Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701
[email protected], 479-799-0214-cell, http://www.csce.uark.edu/~cwt IEEE Fellow (2005) “for contributions to artificial intelligence, database management and middleware” [Research Interests] – [Education] – [Employment] – [Career Summary] [Publications, Presentations, Inventions, Products, Standards, Contracts, Consulting] [Expert Witness] – [Teaching] – [Student Supervised] – [Service] – [Strange but True] RESEARCH INTERESTS Software architecture, service-oriented architecture (SOA), distributed systems, middleware design patterns, cloud computing, semantic web, survivability, quality of service, digital rights, policy languages, change management, incremental algorithms. Big data, data scientist, database management, data grids, grid indexing, object databases, query languages, spatial databases, synthetic data generation. Artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, agents, ontologies, rules, natural language interfaces. Pervasive computing, 3D virtual worlds, gamification, identity management, privacy, RFID middleware, soft controllers, command and control, small unit operations, scenarios, virtual office, virtual enterprise, human factors. Expert witness in patent infringement cases. EDUCATION B.S. in Mathematics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, June 1971. M.A. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, August, 1977, “Question Answering via