David M. Thau

David M. Thau
thau@learningsite.com

Computer Science Related Work History

• PhD Program, University of California at Davis, 2005 - Present.
• California Academy of Sciences, Programming/Research, 2003 - Present.
• University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Programming/Research, 2003 - 2004.
• All Species Foundation, Director of Engineering, 2002 - 2003.
• biancaTroll Productions, CEO, 1994 - 2001.
• Wired Digital/HotWired, 1995 - 1999.
  • Senior Scientist, 1997 - 1999.
  • Director of Software Engineering, 1996 - 1997.
  • Senior Software Engineer, 1995 - 1996.
• Apollo Derivatives, Software Developer and Director of User Training, 1995.
• Streams Online Media Development, Director of Software Development, 1994 - 1995.

Education

• Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1993.
• Masters of Science, Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991.
• Bachelors of Science, Cognitive Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989.

Publications, Installations and Presentations

• GUIDs and LSIDs: An invited presentation to the Taxonomic Data Working Group. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 2004.
• Data Procurement for Enabling Scientific Workflows: On Exploring Inter-Ant Parasitism. Bowers, S., Thau, D., Williams, R., and Ludascher, B., (2004). Presented at the second International Semantic Web and Databases Workshop.
• OWL and SDD: An invited presentation to the Taxonomic Data Working Group subgroup on the Structure of Descriptive Data. Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Berlin, 2004.
• Globally Unique Identifiers for Taxonomists: An invited presentation at the eScience GRID Environments conference. Napier University, Edinburgh, 2004.
• Flexible image comparisons in AntWeb: An invited presentation at A Workshop on Establishing a Comprehensive Database for Plant Systematics. University of Florida, Gainesville, 2004.
• Panelist in a Roundtable Discussion and Workshop on a "Biological Names Server". In the Trends and Developments in Biodiversity Informatics meeting sponsored by CRIA. Campinas, Brazil, 2003.
• Cross-Browser Animation. The O'Reilly Network, 2002.
• Timelocator - Commissioned work for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with Eric Adigard. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001.
• The Book of JavaScript: A Practical Guide for Interactive Web Pages. No Starch Press, 2000.
• Numerous articles on Webmonkey. 1996-2001.
• Thau, D.M., (1992). Primacy effects and selective attention in incremental clustering. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Thau, D.M., (1992). Of mice and machines: Selective attention in incremental clustering. Paper presented at the First Annual University of Michigan Cognitive Science Conference.
• Medin, D.L., and Thau, D.M., (1991). Theories, constraints, and cognition. In The Study of Cognition: Conceptual and Methodological Issues. Herb Pick (Ed.).

Teaching Experience

• Database Management Systems, Mills College, 2003.
• XML and Related Technologies, San Francisco State University, 2003.
• Many JavaScript classes, San Francisco State University, 1998-2003.
• Building Online Communities, San Francisco State University, 1999-2000.
• Many programming classes, San Jose State University, 1998-1999.
• The Humboldt Institute for Technological Studies, 1996-1999.
• Introduction to Computers, Apollo Derivatives, 1995.
• Computational Decision Making Algorithms, Northwestern University, 1994

Selected Media Citations

Selected media citations for projects I have founded, co-founded or for which I have been sole software developer:

• Newsweek (AntWeb, November 14, 2005.)
• Science (AntWeb, February 2004. Species Toolkit, August 2002.)
• Nature (AntWeb, July 2003. Species Toolkit, July 2002)
• USA Today (Timelocator, Jan 9, 2001)
• The Economist (bianca.com, February 1998)
• Rolling Stone (bianca.com, November 1995)