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, 1999 - 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.

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.

Thau, D., Bowers, S., Ludaescher, B.: Merging sets of taxonomically organized data using concept mappings under uncertainty. Accepted to ODBASE 2009 (November 2009)
Thau, D., Morris, B., White, S.: Contemporary challenges in ambient data integration for biodiversity informatics. Accepted to ADI 2009 (November 2009).
Thau, D., Bowers, S., Ludaescher, B.: On Merging Taxonomies under RCC-5 Algebraic Articulations. Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (in press).
Thau, D., Bowers, S., Ludaescher, B.: CleanTax: A Framework for Reasoning about Taxonomies. AAAI Spring Symposium (2009).
Thau, D., Bowers, S., Ludaescher, B.: Merging taxonomies under RCC-5 algebraic articulations. Proceedings of the CIKM ONISW Workshop (2008) 47–54.
Thau, D.: Reasoning about taxonomies and articulations. EDBT Workshops (2008) 11–19.
Thau, D., Ludascher, B.: Reasoning about taxonomies in first-order logic. Ecological Informatics 2(3), 195–209. (2007)
Bowers, S., Thau, D., Williams, R., and Ludascher, B.: Data Procurement for Enabling Scientific Workflows: On Exploring Inter-Ant Parasitism.. Presented at the second International Semantic Web and Databases Workshop. (2004)
Thau, D., . Primacy effects and selective attention in incremental clustering. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (1992)
Medin, D.L., and Thau, D.: Theories, constraints, and cognition. In The Study of Cognition: Conceptual and Methodological Issues. Herb Pick (Ed.), (1991).

Reasoning about Relationships Between Biological Taxonomies: An invited presentation to the University of California at Merced Cognitive Science Colloquium. UC Merced, 2009.
CleanTax: An Infrastructure for Reasoning about Biological Taxonomies. An invited presentation to the Stanford Research Institute. Stanford, 2007.
Formalizing Taxonomy: A Status Report. Data Integration in the Life Sciences. University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
GUIDs and LSIDs: An invited presentation to the Taxonomic Data Working Group. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 2004.
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.
Timelocator - Commissioned work for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with Eric Adigard. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001.

Ontologies in Ecology and Biodiversity Informatics, Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, 2008.
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 for projects I have founded, co-founded or for which I have been sole software developer: