The Alexandria Digital Library on the World Wide Web
James Frew
Institute for Computational Earth System Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
James Frew is currently employed as a Specialist in the Institute for
Computational Earth System Science (ICESS), an independent research unit
at UCSB, where he works on data systems issues for Earth science and
digital library applications. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from
UCSB in 1990. As part of his doctoral research, he developed the Image
Processing Workbench, a freely-distributable set of software tools for
remote sensing image processing, currently used for instruction and
research at UCSB and elsewhere. Dr. Frew has served as both the Manager
and the Acting Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory (ICESS's
predecessor), and as the Associate Director of the Sequoia 2000 Project,
a 3-year $14M multicampus consortium formed to investigate large-scale
data management aspects of global change problems. Dr. Frew is currently
a co-PI on the Alexandria Project (part of the NSF-NASA-ARPA Digital
Libraries Initiative), directing the development of its Internet
testbed. He also serves on several committees overseeing NASA's Earth
Observing System data system activities.
