Degrees:

MS Computer Science (2003)
BS Computer Science (2001)
BS Applied Discrete Mathematics (2001)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA.

Other Certifications:

IT Project Management Fundamentals (2005; 2.1 CEUs)
Georgia Institute of Technology

Selected Focuses and Interests:

digital libraries, commons-based peer production (CBPP), data mining (classification, clustering, recommender systems), information retrieval, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), databases, discrete algorithms. ALSO: economics and finance.

Relevant graduate courses:

Data Mining, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Digital Cities and Internet Communities, Numerical Methods, Finite Difference Methods, Programming Languages, Formal Languages, Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Relevant undergraduate courses:

Data & Algorithm Analysis, Operating Systems, Data Structures and Software Engineering, OOP & Design , Intro to Programming in C, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Numerical Analysis, Issues in Scientific Computing, Applied Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory, Vector Calculus, Differential Equations, Multivariable Calculus, intro Calculus

Selected Languages and Technical Skills:

C, C++, Perl, x86 Assembly, Visual Basic, Javascript, TCL, SQL, FoxPro, Pascal, BASIC, HTML, Unix shell scripting, Windows NT/95/98, DOS, Linux admin/development, Database administration, XML, XSLT, XHTML

• Created ML-Implode.com, a community news and information site, which focused on the mortgage industry and housing finance and served as one of the major notable bell-ringers on the late-2000s housing crash and "credit crunch."
• Site received 300,000-500,000 daily visits at peak (to date); has averaged 25,000-50,000 daily visits generally.
• Site was cited on-air by CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and endorsed on-air by CNBC's Jim Cramer.
• Full list of known media citations about ML-Implode and other "Implode-o-Meter" sites"
• Site is known to be read by members of Congress, and has influenced whether some retain office, and has influenced legislation.
• ML-Implode is the most-visited daily online publication in the mortgage industry.
• Ran a premium information subscription service, with ~500 subscribers at peak.
• Company attained estimated $6M value at peak.
• Managed 5-10 people at most times.

Technical work:

• Developed novel content management system heavily based on RSS streams; integrating Wordpress, native, and forum feeds.
• Lightweight, perl-and-mysql-based integration layer.
• Novel HTML/XSL template-based news and article system.
• Many RSS "slicing and dicing" tools developed.
• Developed a novel RSS-based email subscription system (implemented by Brian Pitts).
• Developed a novel PHPBB-to-Wordpress forum bridge (with Pitts.)

Misc:

• Editorial Board of the Niche Report, an ML-Implode partner.

Essays accepted for publication on major economic sites:

1. A Subtle But Effective Way To Run The Economy Off The Rails: Lie About The Price Level (iTulip.com)
2. Will The Real Inflation Please Stand Up? (iTulip.com)
3. What (Really) Happened in 1995? (iTulip.com)

Numerous online self-published economic articles are available here.

My articles on the AutoDogmatic Blog (dating through mid-2008) are available here. They are of a mixed political and economic nature.

Theses/dissertations:

• Krowne, A. An Architecture for Collaborative Math and Science Digital Libraries. 2003. (Master's thesis) online access.

Interviews/Publicity/Coverage:

1. Mitchell Leslie, Netwatch: Grassroots Math Guide, Science, June 17, 2005. (Planetmath.org as a featured online educational resource.)
2. Motivation and value of free resources: Wikipedia and PlanetMath show the way, Free Software Magazine issue 1., Feb 2005, http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_01/wiki_value/. (On commons-based peer production and free licensing for knowledge resources).
3. Linux taking aim at Microsoft's Territory, Austin-American Statesman, http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/08/12Linux_edit.html. (On the value of Linux in digital libraries systems). Incorrectly cited as lead developer of "globalmath.org" and "citadel.org", should be planetmath.org and citidel.org, resp.
4. Students voice complaints about local communications company, Collegiate Times, http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=3210. (On my consumer advocacy against local networking company.)

Book chapters:

• Edward A. Fox, Marcos André Gonçalves, Ming Luo, Yuxin Chen, Aaron Krowne, Baoping Zhang, Kate McDevitt, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Ryan Richardson, Lillian N. Cassel: Harvesting: Broadening the Field of Distributed Information Retrieval. In Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval, Springer-Verlag, SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2924; Callan, Jamie; Crestani, Fabio; Sanderson, Mark (Eds.), 2004, ISBN: 3-540-20875-5, pages 1-20

Papers/articles (published and peer-reviewed):

1. James Gardner, Aaron Krowne and Li Xiong. NNexus: An Automatic Linker for Collaborative Web-Based Corpora (demo track). 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March, 2009.
2. James Gardner, Aaron Krowne, Li Xiong. NNexus: An Automatic Linker for Collaborative Web-Based Corpora. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 829-839, June 2009, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2008.136 (online access)
3. Gardner, J., Krowne, A., Xiong, L. NNexus: Towards an Automatic Linker for a Massively-Distributed Collaborative Corpus. CollaborateCom 2006, Mobility, Collaborative Working, and Emerging Applications workship. November, 2006. (online access)
4. Chopra, R., Krowne, A. Disciplining Search/Searching Disciplines: Perspectives from Academic Communities on Metasearch Quality Indicators. First Monday: WebWise 2006 Issue, August 2006 (online access)
5. Krowne, A., Puzio, R. The Fog of Copyleft. First Monday, July 2006 (May 10th Anniversary Conference Issue) (online access)
6. Krowne, A., Gadi, U. QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-Aware Search Framework. ARIADNE, May 2006. (online access.)
7. Krowne, A., How Free Culture Will Save Digital Libraries. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. October 2005. (online access)
8. Corneli, J., Krowne, A., A Scholia-based Document Model for Commons-based Peer Production. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. October 2005. (online access)
9. Milson, R., Krowne, A., Adapting CBPP Platforms for Instructional Use. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. October 2005. (online access)
10. Krowne, A., Halbert, M. An Initial Evaluation of Automated Organization for Digital Library Browsing. In: JCDL 2005 proceedings, June 2005. (Nominated for the Vannevar Bush award).
11. Krowne, A. The FUD-Based Encyclopedia, Free Software Magazine, issue 2, April 2005. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/
12. Goncalves, M., Krowne, A., Calado, P. The Effectiveness of Automatically Structured Queries in Digital Libraries., In proceedings of JCDL, June 2004. (Won "best student paper")
13. Krowne, A., Halbert, M. Combined Searching of Web and OAI Digital Library Resources. In proceedings of JCDL, June 2004.
14. Krowne, A., Bazaz, Anil., Authority Models for Collaborative Authoring. In proceedings of HICSS, January 2004.
15. Krowne, A., Fox, E. A., An Architecture for Multischeming in Digital Libraries. In proceedings of ICADL, December 2003.
16. Krowne, A. Building a Digital Library the Commons-Based Peer Production Way. D-Lib Magazine, Oct. 2003. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october03/krowne/10krowne.html.
17. Suleman, H. Fox, E. A., Kelapure, R., Krowne, A., Luo, M.. Building Digital Libraries from Simple Building Blocks. Online Information Review. 2003-5, October.
18. Goncalves, M. A., Panchanathan, G., Ravindranathan, U., Krowne, A., Fox, E. A., Jagodzinski, F., Boots-Cassel, L. The XML Log Standard for Digital Libraries: Analysis, Evolution, and Deployment. JCDL 2003.

Technical Reports and Pending Papers:

1. Krowne, A., Hickcox, A., Ingram, S. Semantic Clustering in the Wild (submitted, Digital Humanities '07)
2. Gardner, J., Krowne, A., Xiong, L. Nnexus: An Automatic Linker for Collaborative and Distributed Corpora (submitted, WWW07) online access.
3. Ingram, S., Krowne, A. Towards Automatic Facetization: Hierarchical Document Clustering Using Multiplicative Up-Propagation (technical report; 2005) online access.

• Lead CITIDEL design, implementation, and component integration. Some aspects of this:
  • Utilized Open Archives (OAI) and Open Digital Libraries (ODL) concepts and technologies.
  • Developed novel multischeming multiclassification architecture.
  • Working with large databases, large archives, large volumes of data.
  • Utilized and developed various metadata formats.
  • Developed CITIDEL Instructional Architect, a tool for building and publishing collections of objects from digital libraries
  • Worked with and extended Researchindex (CiteSeer) software (including Open Archives aspects)
  • Research on web crawling and classification for CITIDEL resource discovery ("Crawlifier" concept, on-line linear classifiers, Support Vector Machine (SVM), kNN)
  • Administration of CITIDEL servers using linux.
  • Building the CITIDEL system using perl, php, apache, CVS, etc.
  • Working with project members at Villanova, PSU, Hofstra, and TCNJ.
• Specific research initiatives connected to CITIDEL:
  • ESSEX - A fast vector-space search engine daemon for digital libraries. Support for full IRDB query semantics.
  • Open Digital Libraries (ODL) fast Search Engine Component - An ODL component based on ESSEX.
  • The Crawlifier - Automatic web resource discovery and classification combined.
  • ODL XML Logging Component - Application of XML logging standard for Digital libraries to ODL framework and CITIDEL.
  • Automatic text classification - Using the ACM Computing Classification ontology to classify documents in Computer Science (for classification services and the crawlifier). Involved feasibility, error bounds, coding, tweaking, and testing.
  • LaTeX::TOM - A perl module for handling LaTeX documents. Intended to be similar to XML::DOM. Developed initially for plain-text extraction for use in indexing for classification initiative.
• Managed and coordinated many student groups developing and researching technologies for CITIDEL (including the above initiatives). In excess of 15 persons at one point.

• Designed and implemented the Noosphere system (coded in perl), set up the flagship instance as the PlanetMath online mathematics community.
• Major aspects: LaTeX-based, real-time updates, automatic reference linking, peer review workflow, integration of current digital library and online community technologies (XML, XSLT, OAI, search engines, threaded discussions)
• Mentor in 6 Google Sumer of Code projects, from 2006 through 2008. More info.
• Work is ongoing.

• Researched algebraic concepts up to Hopf Algebras.
• Worked with GAP and OPAL symbolic software.
• Designed new project web site, with novel Perl-driven menu engine.

• Lead research and development on digital library grant projects (such as MetaCombine and OCKHAM).
• Advise, as a computer scientist and digital librarian, on other grant projects at Emory.
• Design, execute, and report on experiments.
• Develop digital library software based on experimental systems and other new systems.
• Design and construct novel digital library systems based on research results and software.
• Report results to research community in periodicals, conferences, and technical reports..
• Supervise developers and research assistants.
• Mentor computer science students in research (including thesis work).
• Help improve Emory's library systems facilities.
• Assist in forming new initiatives and grant-writing to establish funding for them.

• Built a service for e-mail header analysis using Perl ("MailSleuth").
• Built a system in Perl to manage the regular updating of a set of directory web pages on a remote host (ranker_shell).
• Designed and programmed in Visual Basic software for batch searching and reporting of phone number information for private investigators.
• Wrote a Windows program (C++, Win32 API) for private investigators for capturing lists of various file types on a computer to floppy disk quickly ("PIScan").
• Installed and utilized MySQL on Linux for filtering and massaging of spam log data to track down spammers.
• Wrote a script for Linux to compare system images on burned CD-ROM discs, detecting changes via MD5 checksum.
• Wrote a C program to extract ethernet card (MAC address) information from Microsoft Word documents.
• Set up a Linux server to page an administrator upon telnet/portscan/flood attempts.
• Miscellaneous shell scripts, problem diagnosis, and administration tasks in Linux, mostly for production web sites.

• Installation and configuration of Apache/Apache-ssl for a production system.
• Set up a web-based groupware calendar system.
• Administration of virtual hosts and web sites.
• Implemented "dial-in" networking allowing a Linux server to act as a single-line ISP.
• Used SAMBA to allow NT/Win9x users on an NT Domain to automatically have home directories on a Linux server.
• Many other administration tasks.

• Designed and implemented a major customer-requested SQL Server feature.
• Conceived of and implemented various internal scripts and tools for development workflow support.
• Fixed bugs in the SQL server product.
• Added various minor features and updates to SQL Server.

• Ported a 60,000 line system between old and new versions of ZINC C++ cross-platform GUI API.
• Database system debugging under Oracle 8/Designer 2000.
• Wrote an internal helpdesk application using VB/Access DAO.

• Proposed and programmed a Javascript matching game.
• Created CGI systems using AOLServer TCL for viewing and formatting various database information.
• Updated and maintained an internal Visual Basic utility.
• Created various internal-use command-line utilities in C.

• Created web site for the Optical Sciences Division, Environmental Applications section.
• Some programming for HP data acquisition units

• Designed and built web site for RepoLink project.
• Created FoxPro database code and CGI web interface.
• Created web-side database administration system.