Tony Fountain

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Network News Spring 1999, Vol. 12 No. 1

Tony Fountain earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Oregon State University. His dissertation covered machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, and statistical decision theory, and his graduate advisor was Tom Dietterich.

Tony spent three years as a faculty research assistant in ecological modeling and computer simulation, working with Dr. Ron Neilson in the Forest Sciences Department at Oregon State University.

As a graduate research assistant, Tony worked on artificial intelligence and parallel computing under Dr. Bruce D’Ambrosio in the Computer Science Department at Oregon State University. Other career highlights include three years as a knowledge engineer in applied artificial intelligence at Lockheed Corporation, and three years as a systems analyst in the USAF. Tony is now a staff scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and liaison to the Long Term Ecological Research Network.

Current information about these and other SDSC/LTER projects is available at http://www.sdsc.edu/sdsc-lter.

Tony Fountain strongly encourages anyone to contact him about supercomputing, the SDSC, or the SDSC-LTER collaboration . Tony can be reached at fountain@ SDSC.EDU, or by phone: (619) 534-8374.