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Dr. Mark Maybury is Executive Director of MITRE's Information Technology Division. He is responsible for the direction of advanced research and development for intelligence and defense systems supporting a broad range of sponsors including the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, OSD, DISA, ARDA, DARPA, NSF, and national intelligence agencies. In addition, his division provides research and modernization to the IRS and FAA. Mark leads an enterprise distributed across Washington D.C., Bedford, MA and several US and European sites spanning the disciplines of intelligent information systems, analytic tools, performance support, collaborative environments, geospatial information systems, distributed computing, networking, and data, information and knowledge management.
Dr. Maybury is founder and Executive Director of the ARDA Northeast Regional Research Center (nrrc.mitre.org). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group and has advised the German Ministry for Education and Research. A member of MITRE's Innovation Team, Mark is co-founder and co-publisher of MITRE's technology newsletter, The Edge (1997-present).
Mark served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Defense Software (1999-2000), the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Study on Commercial Space (2000-2001) and the National Space System Architect senior advisory panel (2001). He chaired the Common Operating Environment Multimedia and Collaboration Working Group (1995-2002) and co-chairs DoD's Collaboration Interoperability and Standards Working Group (ISWG). He testified to Congress on State Department modernization in 2001.
Previously, Dr. Maybury led MITRE's Speech and Natural Language Group, served as Director of the Bedford Artificial Intelligence Technical Center, led the Advanced Information Systems Technology Department, directed the Advanced Information Systems Center (AISC) and served as Deputy Division Manager for National Intelligence. Dr. Maybury has contributed to the MITRE Technology Program as Principal Investigator, Thrust Leader and Technical Integrator and served as project leader for government funded programs. Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Maybury served as a US Air Force officer as Research Team Chief and then Center Program Manager at Rome Air Development Center at Griffiss AFB where he received the Scientific Achievement Award.
Dr. Maybury is a recipient of the MITRE Best Paper Award, a lifetime member of the Cambridge Society, and listed in Who's Who in America. He received the Air Force Commendation Medal (1990), a Program Achievement Award for his contributions to the Community Open Source Program Office (1994), the Golden Candle Award for Open Source Intelligence Innovation (1998), a Program Achievement Award for Geospatial News on Demand (GeoNODE) (2000), and an award from New York City and MITRE for his support of World Trade Center rescue and recovery efforts (2002), a Recognition Award from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for support to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq (2005), and a Special Recognition Award from President George Bush for planning for the Terrorism Information Sharing Environment (2005). Dr. Maybury has a patent pending (60/065,947) for broadcast news understanding and a patent submission for personalcasting.
Mark has over sixty refereed publications. He is editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press 1993), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/ MIT Press 1997), New Directions in Question Answering (AAAI/ MIT Press 2004), co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press 1999), Advances in Knowledge Management (MIT Press 2001) and Personalized Digital Television (Kluwer Academic, 2004), and co-author of Information Storage and Retrieval (Kluwer Academic 2000).
Mark serves on international program committees and journal boards and chairs international workshops and conferences including Intelligent User Interfaces (1999), Multimodal Interfaces (2003) and Intelligence Analysis (2005). He is a member of the IUI Steering Council, and Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGART (2001-2005).
Dr. Maybury received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross magna cum laude in 1986 (Fenwick Scholar), a Masters of Philosophy in Computer Speech and Language Processing from Cambridge University, England in 1987 (Rotary Scholar), a Masters of Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989 and a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence from Cambridge in 1991. | 