Contributions to Community

• Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI):
  • President: 1992 - 1994
  • Vice President: 1990 - 1992
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICJAI):
  • National Committee, 1992 - 1995,
  • International Advisory Committee, 1994 - 1995
  • Awards Review Committee, 1995
• NSERC:
  • Committee on Research Grants (CORG) 1997 - 2000
  • Group Chair for Engineering and Computer Sciences, 1997 - 2000
  • Chair, NSERC Grant Selection Committee for Computer Science, 1995 - 1996
  • Member, Task Force on Enabling Canadian Bioinformatics Capability
  • Member, NSERC Grant Selection Committee for Computer Science, 1993 - 1995
  • Member: NSERC Reallocation Committee for Computer Science, 1993 and 1997
• Member: Precarn Research Management Committee (2001-2002)
• NSF: Member, Panel on Computational Implementations of Geographic Concepts, 1998 - 1999.
• IFIP: Vice-Chair, Technical Committee (TC 12) on Artificial Intelligence, 1993 -
• Editorial Board
  • Bioinformatics Journal, 2000 -
  • AI Magazine: 2000 -
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 1996 - 1999
  • Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computing, 1999 -
  • Trends in Software, 1995 -
• IBM Canada: Member, Executive Advisory Board, 1997 -
• Board of Directors:
  • International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), 1997 - 2000
  • Communications and Information Technology (CITO), 1997 - 1999
  • Information Technology Research Corporation of Ontario (ITRC), 1991-1995.
• Computing Research Association (CRA): Member of Canadian Committee
• Centers of Excellence Membership:
  • Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO)
  • Protein Engineering Network Center of Excellence (PENCE)
  • Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
  • Geomatics for Informed Decisions Network Center of Excellence (GEOIDE)
• Program/Organizing Committee Work:
  • International Workshop on Bioinformatics in Data Mining (BIOKDD 2001), San Francisco 2001.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Copenhagen 2001.
  • Scientific Committee, Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), California 2001.
  • Program Committee, Rockefeller Foundation Conference on Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design, Italy 2001
  • Program Committee, Genomics Informatics Workshop, Japan 2001
  • Program Committee, Diagrams 2000, Edinburough 2000.
  • Co-chair, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) Track on Data Mining and Discovery in Molecular Databases, Hawaii 2000.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), San Diego 2000.
  • Co-organizer, International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 1998 Montreal; 1999, Heidelberg.
  • Co-chair, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) Track on Data Mining and Discovery in Molecular Databases, Hawaii 1999.
  • Scientific Committee, Conference on Spatial Information Theory: (COSIT '99), Stade, Germany, 1999.
  • Organizing Committee, Workshop on Machine Learning in Image Processing, Image Interpretation and Computer Vision, Leipzig, Germany, September 1999.
  • Organizing Committe, AAAI Fall Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations II, 1997.
  • Steering Committee, Formal Models of Common Sense Geographic Worlds (NCGIA Initiative 21), 1996.
  • Program Committee, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI) 1996.
  • Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence 1996.
  • Organizing Committee, AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive and Computational Models for Spatial Representations, 1996.
  • Organizing Committee, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputation (PSB), 1996.
  • Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1995.
  • Organizing Committee, AAAI Fall Symposium on Integrating Computation for Language and Vision, 1995.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB). 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997.
  • Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, 1993.
  • Program Committee, Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIR) 1993; 1994, 1996.
  • International Scientific Advisory Committee, AI in Engineering, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995.
  • Co-Chair, Ninth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver 1992.