Tom Greene
Dr. Tom Greene has been a member of the Research Staff of the Laboratory for 18 years. The new role of CSAIL Outreach Officer is his present assignment. Concerning this new role, the need for reserach laboratories to reach out to non-traditinal communities is becoming more important . Research is funded by all members of society and should be knowledgably endorsed by them. The benefits that research creates should be understood by a very wide public. Recent changes in awards by funding agencies (NSF, DARPA, NASA, NIH) reflect an increased awareness of the goal of reserach having Broader Impact on society. Reaching out with information will have several benefits to the lab, including recruiting, increased funding opportunities, and is in keeping with the MIT tradition of good organizaional citizenship. Outreach with information about the lab and the research that better suited to a wide audience including k-12 and the public at large is the thrust of activity.
In the fall of 2003 he returned to Cambridge after completing 3 years as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, (NSF). At MIT-LCS he had managed a variety of projects including as Information Officer, the logistics of LCS35. Other projects included working with Tim Berners-Lee, in helping establish the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at LCS, during the period of building both the consortium membership base and the world wide team. Prior to that he managed the MIT-LCS Project SCOUT focused on research use of a 128 node CM5 super computer. This project concerned collaborations amongst LCS and other scientists at MIT, Harvard and Boston University. His first LCS assignment in 1987 was managing the computer resources team supporting the LCS Research Groups where the challenge was making the equipment transition from the age of time-sharing machines to the period of distributed desktops.
Tom has been a visiting Scientist at Stanford University (1981), IBM Cambridge Scientific Center (1985) and the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center- Houston (1970). He has served as a consultant with the United Nations ( UNIDO). He is an active member of the IEEE, the ACM and Sigma Xi. Before joining LCS, Greene was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where he had established the Department of Computer Science (1975-86). Greene completed his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Toledo in 1973. He later earned a Ed.M from Harvard University in 1990. His early studies with a dual major in Physics and Philosophy at Boston College (1966) resulted in award of the B.Sc.
–Taken from http://mit.edu/tjg/www/
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