Dr. Craig W. Thompson
Professor and Charles D. Morgan/Acxiom Graduate Research Chair
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Office: JBHT 516
Phone: (479) 575-6519
Fax: 479-575-5339
E-mail: cwt@uark.edu
WWW: http://csce.uark.edu/~cwt
Education
Teaching and Research
Biographical Information
Craig Thompson is Professor and Charles D. Morgan/Acxiom Graduate Research Chair in Database in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to artificial intelligence, database management and middleware. He taught graduate AI and database courses at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1977 to 1981). He was a Senior Member of Technical Staff and a Research Manager in the Central Research Labs at Texas Instruments (1981 to 1995). He co-founded and served as President of Object Services and Consulting, Inc. (1995 to 2003). He joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas in July 2003.
Thompson has a strong record of industrial research and external funding (principal investigator for $18.4M in IR&D, DARPA, SBIR, and industry projects). He is a nationally recognized leader in object and agent technology standards. Thompson holds seven patents, is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Internet Computing, has published over 40 papers in books, journals and conferences, has organized several workshops, and has supervised eight masters theses. His publications have appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Computer, IEEE Intelligent Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, and International Journal of Computer Standards and Interfaces. He was a key contributor on three software products for the TI Explorer Lisp Machine and has consulted for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Microelectronic and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC), National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) Consortium, and legal firms in the area of patent infringement. His background and research interests span agents, grids, RFID, pervasive computing, aspects, scalability, adaptability, survivability, quality of service, compositional middleware, service oriented architectures, virtual enterprises, object database systems, and natural language interfaces.
