1. Chronology of Education

• 1986 B.Sc. (Computer Science), University of Otago, New Zealand.
• 1979 Ph.D. London School of Economics, UK. (Thesis entitled: 'Two Rival Programmes in 19th Century Classical Electrodynamics: Action-at-a-distance versus Field Theories'). Ph.D. Supervisors : Imre Lakatos and, after Imre’s death, Jon Dorling.
• 1971 M.Sc. (Econ.)(Distinction) (Logic and Scientific Method), London School of Economics, UK.
• 1969 B.A. (Philosophy), University of Exeter, UK.

2. Chronology of Employment

• 2005-present Associate Director Virtual Learning, School of Information Resources and Library Science, The University of Arizona. This is a part time responsibility in addition to the position listed next.
• 2000-present Associate Professor (with tenure), School of Information Resources and Library Science, The University of Arizona.
• 2006 Summer Acting Director, School of Information Resources and Library Science, The University of Arizona.
• 1994-2000 Assistant Professor, School of Information Resources and Library Science, The University of Arizona.
• 1989-94 Honorary Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• 1986-94 Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. (NZ Senior Lecturer= US Associate Professor.)
• 1976-85 Lecturer (with tenure), Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. (NZ Lecturer= US Assistant Professor ~ US Associate Professor.)
• 1973-75 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. (NZ Lecturer= US Assistant Professor ~ US Associate Professor

3. Honors and Awards

• Leverhulme Research Scholarship, London School of Economics. 1970-1.

4. Service

Outreach

• 2006-7 Referee Journal of Education for Library and Information Science
• 2006-7 Grant reviewer Arizona Board of Regents ARRO technology grants
• 2006 Chair presented session Information Ethics Roundtable, APA Pacific Division, Seattle
• 2005- Referee Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, Cambridge University Press, International Medical Informatics Association
• 2003- Referee Journal of the American Association for Information Science and Technology and Library Quarterly.
• 1999 Presentation on ‘Information Ethics’ to the State of Arizona, Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, Paraprofessional Institute
• 1999 Reviewer, National Conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles
• 1996 Program Chair, 11th Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon University
• 1996 Presentation on ‘Systems and Soft Systems’ to the State of Arizona, Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, Paraprofessional Institute
• 1996 Reviewer of submitted papers, National Conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles
• 1995 Reviewer of submitted papers, 10th Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon University

Citizenship (Intramural)

• 2006-7 Configured and programmed the CMS software for the two SIRLS ePorfolio Systems (approx. 300 students, 10000 documents) and for the SIRLS website
• 2006-7 SBS Tech Advisory Committee
• 2000-7 Chair Department Ph.D. Studies Committee
• 2003-7 Learning Technologies Faculty Advisory Board (University wide)
• 2000-7 Chair Department Faculty Status Committee
• 2000-7 Faculty Advisory Committee
• 2000-6 Departmental Human Subjects Research Officer
• 2000-7 SBS Heads and Directors Meetings. Proxy for Head of Department
• 2000-4 College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Sabbatical Committee (Chair 2003)
• 2000-3 University Prop 301 Information Technology and Commerce Institute
• 2000-2 Chairman SBS Information Science and Technology Curriculum Planning Group
• 1998-02 University Communication and Information Technology Curriculum Planning Group
• 1998-02 Committee of Division of Learning,Technology, and Assessment
• 1998-02 Committee of Instructional Innovations Support Team
• 1995-03 Graduate School Representative for Thesis Oral Examinations.
• 1995-01 Supporting the School's Network Administrator.
• 1999 New Learning Environments Web Tools Committee
• 1999 New Learning Environments and Instruction Technology retreat, Hacienda del Sol, to evaluate proposals for instructional computing grants and to advise the University on policy.
• 1998 SBS Heads and Directors Retreat to discuss measures for assessing learning. Proxy for Head of Department
• 1998 New Learning Environments and Instruction Technology week-end retreat, Casa Grande 1998, to evaluate proposals for instructional computing grants and to advise the University on policy.
• 1995-9 Faculty member responsible for the techniques, format and delivery of the School's Distance Courses, specifically the computer based Internet and Web courses.

5. Teaching

2005 LSO Students Outstanding Teacher Award

1999 Nominated by the SIRLS department for the University wide El Paso award for teaching excellence.

[All teaching is at graduate level (500 or 600), except for the 2006 pilot PHIL-MATH202.]

Present active repertoire

• IRLS506 Research Methods
• MIS411/511 Social Issues of Computing
• IRLS515 Organization of Information
• IRLS520 Ethics for Information Professionals
• IRLS575 Human Factors in Information Systems
• IRLS606 Research Methods II
• IRLS612 Intelligent Systems
• IRLS613 Systems Analysis and Evaluation
• IRLS614 Theory and Transfer of Information
• PHIL202/MATH202 Introduction to Symbolic Logic (taught entirely by computer)

Students advised in 1995-2007

• Ph.D. Students (Committee Chair) 3 each year, typically
• Ph.D. Students (Committee Member) 2 a year typically
• Masters Advisees about 50 a year, typically, (it has been as high as 100)

Courses taught at the University of Otago (1973-1993), prior to my appointment to the University of Arizona

• Advanced Logic
• Functional Programming (4th year Honours Computer Science)
• History of Philosophy
• History of Science
• Introduction to Philosophy
• LISP (2nd year Computer Science)
• Logic Stage 1 (taught entirely by computer)
• Logic Stage 2 (taught by computer)
• Mechanization of Reasoning
• Philosophy of History (for the History department)
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Social Science
• Prolog (3rd year Computer Science)
• Set Theory
• Theory of Computability

Supervision of research in the University of Otago, prior to my appointment to the University of Arizona.

• Ph.D., Masters, and Honours students.

6. Recent Publications/Creative Activity

(All single author except where noted.)

• 'The Knowledge Pyramid: A Critique of the DIKW Hierarchy', Journal of Information Science. 2008, forthcoming
• (with Don Fallis) ‘Indicators of accuracy of consumer health information on the Internet: a review of one approach and its results’ MEDNET Proceedings, 2006, PubMedCentral
• (with Don Fallis, Marci Jones, and Gianna Luszko) ‘Consumer Health Information on the Internet about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome’, American Journal of Medicine. 118:03 Feb. 2005.
• (with Don Fallis) ‘Indicators of Accuracy for Answers to Ready Reference Questions on the Internet’, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2004, 55 pp.238-245.
• (with Don Fallis) 'Verifiable Health Information on the Internet.' Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2002, 43(4) pp262-269
• (with Don Fallis) 'Verifiable Health Information on the Internet.' Proceedings of AusWEB; Southern Cross University, 2002, pp.283-292.
• (with Don Fallis) Reply to "Consumer Health Information on the Internet", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 9, 4, (2002): 403-405.
• (with Don Fallis) ‘Indicators of Accuracy of Consumer Health Information on the Internet’, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2002 9(1), pp. 73-79
• (with Kay Mathieson and Don Fallis) ‘Ethical Presuppositions behind the Library Bill of Rights’, Library Quarterly, 70(4) 2000:468-91
• (with Don Fallis) ‘Not by Library School Alone’, Education and Training Bulletin, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. 2000, 1, p.3 (reprint of ‘Library Education: Theory and Practice’)
• (with Don Fallis) ‘Library Education: Reply to Critics’, Library Journal, 2000, 124, p.8
• Review of Goldman, Alvin I. Knowledge in a Social World, Library Quarterly, 2000, April
• (with Don Fallis) ‘Library Education: Theory and Practice’, Library Journal, 124(17) 1999: 44-6.
• 'Measuring Recall', Journal of Information Science, 1998, 24(6), pp. 37-45
• Review of Hert, Carol A. Understanding Information Retrieval Interactions: Theoretical and Practical Implications. , Library and Information Science Research Reviews, 1998, 20(4) pp. 443-445
• 'Jean Tague-Sutcliffe on measuring information', Information Processing and Management, 1998, 34(4), pp. 385-394
• ‘Information using likeness measures’, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997, 48(10), pp. 882-892
• 'What are the advantages of Hyperproof-like reasoning systems?', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1997, 48(3), pp. 397-410
• 'In what sense do systems exist?', in F.Stowell et al. (eds), Systems for Sustainability: People, Organizations, and Environments, Plenum Press, 1997, pp. 131-7
• 'A plain person's guide to the security of information', Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science 1997 Midyear Conference, June 1997, pp. 33-42
• 'Transmuting Text', MacTech, 1997, 13(4), pp. 58-60. (To be published also in Japanese.)
• ‘Information across heterogeneous media’, International Forum on Information and Documentation , 1996, 21(3), pp. 3-9. (In English and Russian.)
• Easy Deriver -- a stand-alone Macintosh application and documentation for teaching logic (10,000+ lines of code, 6 Hypercard Stacks, 25 Exercises and 7 pages of documentation)-- published by Intellimation Library™ for the Macintosh (1992).
• Deriver Plus -- an intelligent proof editor, (10,000+ lines of code and 70 pages of documentation)-- published in the US by Intellimation Library™ for the Macintosh (1990).
• Deriver -- a stand-alone Macintosh application and documentation (10,000+ lines of code and 62 pages of documentation)-- published in the US by Intellimation Library™ for the Macintosh (1990).
• Derivation Planner -- a stand-alone Macintosh application and documentation (329 pages of program and 73 pages of documentation)-- published by Unisoft™ (1989).
• 'A Best-path Deriver for First Order Predicate Calculus', Computers and Philosophy .
• 'Strategies and Undoing Them', Computerized Logic Teaching Bulletin, Association of Computerized Logic Teaching, 1988, 1(2)
• ‘The Strong Model of Probabilistic Explanation’, Essays in Honour of Bob Durrant (ed. M.Frické) Otago University Philosophy Department 1986, pp.39-59
• (Editor) Essays in Honour of Bob Durrant (ed. M.Frické) Otago University Philosophy Department 1986,
• 'On the Theory Dependence of Observation', Philosophica, 1983 , 31, pp. 63-83.
• 'The Rejection of Avogadro's Hypotheses', in C.Howson (ed.), Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences, London , Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp. 277-307.

7. Work in Progress

In 2006-7, I have taught, as a pilot, PHIL-MATH202, using a computer program of mine (written in Java to use JNLP Web launch or Java applets embedded in Web pages). The ensemble has the potential to be the technology to deliver platform neutral, revisable, intellectual content rights managed, educational software. This could be a central pattern for the future.

In my guise as ‘Associate Director of Virtual Learning’, I am giving detailed consideration, evaluation, and straight out configuration and programming, of Content Management Systems (usually php libraries front-ending onto databases). These are going to be the next generation for our Website, our community building software, and possibly also our virtual teaching delivery software. I have produce two ePortfolio systems, which the School now uses, and the School's website.

8. Recent Scholarly Presentations

• 2006 ‘Indicators of accuracy of consumer health information on the Internet: a review of one approach and its results’ 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine (MEDNET2006), Toronto, October
• 2006 ‘Library and Information Science Education’, Zheziang University, Hangzhou, China
• 2006 ‘Philosophy of science’, Zheziang University, Hangzhou, China
• 2006 ‘Research Methods in Library and Information Science’, Zheziang University, Hangzhou, China
• 2006 ‘A Theory of Library Science’, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
• 2006 ‘Information Ethics’, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
• 2006 A Theory of Library Science’, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China,
• 2006 ‘Deriver: an example of innovation in the delivery and content of educational software.’ to Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIS, University of Arizona
• 2006 ‘Using Deriver for Online Courses’ to 11th Annual Learning Technologies Showcase: Emerging Technologies, University of Arizona
• 2003 Invited presentation ‘Pornography and the Access to Information’, MASS College Information Ethics Roundtable
• 2002 ‘Verifiable Health Information on the Internet', AusWEB02. Maroochydore, Australia
• 2001 'Verifiable Health Information on the Internet', National Conference. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), Washington D.C. (with Don Fallis)
• 2000 ‘SIRLS and Distributed Education’, Faculty Development Workshop: 2000 Distributive Education, Tucson
• 2000 'Verifiable Health Information on the Internet', National Conference. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), San Antonio (winner ALISE 2000 Research Prize) (with Don Fallis)
• 1999 ‘Practical Social Epistemology’, Australasian Association Of Philosophy, NZ Division, Annual Conference, Dunedin New Zealand.
• 1999 Presentation on ‘WebCT and Distance Education’, Faculty Development Group, University of Arizona
• 1999 Presentation on ‘Information Ethics’ to the State of Arizona, Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, Paraprofessional Institute, Tucson
• 1999 Paper 'Distance Education for Library and Information Professionals: Past Experiences and Possible Futures for Beyond 2000' National Conference. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), Philadelphia
• 1999 Invited Panel discussant. Distance Education Pre-Conference. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
• 1997 Paper 'In what sense do systems exist?' to the 5th International Conference of the United Kingdom Systems Society, Milton Keynes, Great Britain
• 1997 Paper 'A plain person's guide to the security of information' to the American Society for Information Science, Midyear Conference, Scottsdale
• 1992 Presentation and software demonstration of Chameleon to the Computers and Philosophy Conference, Orlando, Florida
• 1990 Presentation and software demonstration of Logic software to the Computers and Philosophy Conference, Stanford, California
• 1989 Paper on best path theorem finding to the Prior Memorial Logic Conference, Christchurch
• 1988 Paper on teaching logic by computer to Australasian Ass. Logic. Conference, Perth, Western Australia

9. Membership of Professional Bodies

• American Society for Information Science & Technology
• Association for Library and Information Science Education
• British Society for the Philosophy of Science
• I.E.E.E. and Computer Society

10. Grants

• (with Don Fallis) $10,000 Proposition 301 Information Science and Information Technology Grant
• (with Don Fallis) $8000 Proposition 301 Information Science and Information Technology Grant
• $500 University of Arizona Foreign Travel Grant
• 2000 (with Don Fallis) $5000 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Research Grant ('Verifiable Health Information on the Internet')
• 1999 $900 University of Arizona Foreign Travel Grant
• 1999 $5000 Faculty Small Grants Program Grants (‘Assessing Signals of Reliability for Health Information on the Internet’)
• $5000 New Learning Environments and Instructional Technologies Grant
• 1997 $500 University of Arizona Foreign Travel Grant
• 1995 QKS Educational Grant for $1000 Smalltalk software environment (supplemented by technical support and marketing)