James D Myers

Organization

Research Interests

• Design and development of collaboratory/Grid/informatics software supporting scientific research and education
• Creation of collaboratory/Grid-enabled scientific communities and informatics approaches to managing large-scale heterogeneous data
• Analysis of the sociology, organizational behavior, and group dynamics of distributed research and learning teams with an emphasis on feedback into software research.

Current Activities and Projects

Dr. Myers is the lead investigator on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored Scientific Annotation Middleware project (scientific content management, semantic annotation, and records functionality) and is serving as the Chief Technical Officer for the DOE sponsored Collaboratory for Multiscale Chemical Science project (multiscale informatics, knowledge grids). Dr. Myers is also contributing to the NSF sponsored Network for Earthquake Engineering and Simulation Grid ( NEESgrid ) and DOE Science Grid efforts.

He has been a principal investigator in the DOE's Distributed Collaborative Experiment Environments (DCEE) and DOE2000 Collaboratory programs and has been a key technical contributor in the development of PNNL's electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) and the Collaborative Research Environment (CORE) real-time collaboration environment. Over 1900 people have registered to download these tools from the EMSL Collaboratory website . Through 1999, Dr. Myers also headed EMSL's Collaboratory operations team, providing collaboration, remote instrument control, and electronic notebook support for a growing number of EMSL users. Joint projects between the Collaboratory and other EMSL facilities such as the highly successful Virtual Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility project, which now allows roughly 25% of the users of EMSL's suite of NMR instruments to run their experiments remotely, have made PNNL a leader in the adoption of remote collaboration capabilities for scientific research and education.

Other activities:

• Program Committee, GridSem 2004, 1st International Workshop on the Semantic Grid, August 23-24, 2004, Valencia, Spain
• Program Committee, International Conference on Semantics for a Networked World, July 17-19, 2004, Paris, France
• Program Committee, Global Grid Forum Semantic Grid Workshop, June 7, 2004, Honolulu, HI
• Member, Middleware and Grid Infrastructure Committee (MAGIC) of the Large Scale Networking (LSN) Coordinating Group of the Interagency Working Group for Information Technology Research and Development

Education

Dr. Myers has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University .

Awards, Honors, & Appointments

Selected Presentations and Publications