Michael J. Kurtz
Present Positions:
- Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1982-
- Computer Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1984-
Previous Positions:
- Image Processing Laboratory Director, SAO, 1984-1992
- Lecturer on Astronomy, Harvard University, 1983-1984
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Dartmouth College, 1982
- Dartmouth Fellow, 1977-1982
- Research Assistant, San Francisco State University, 1977
Education:
- Ph.D. (Physics), Dartmouth College, 1982
- B.A. (Physics), San Francisco State University, 1977
Prizes
- Van Biesbroek Prize, American Astronomical Society, 2001,
designer of the ADS Abstract Service
- ISI/ASIST Citation Award, American Society for Information
Science and Technology, 2000, innovation in bibliographic research
Memberships
- International Astronomical Union, American Astronomical Society, American Physical Society, Classification Society
Invited Lectures: (* = SOC)
- 6th Annual Library Meeting, Keynote, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 2009
- Society for Scholarly Publishing, Open Access Symposium, Baltimore, 2009
- XXVIII Annual Charleston Conference, Charleston, 2008
- National Federation of Advanced Information Services, New York, 2008
- Particle and Particle Astrophysics Information Resource Summit II, Hamburg, 2008
- Los Alamos National Labotatory, Los Alamos, 2008
- Sustainability of Open Access, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, 2008
- Social Data Mining and Knowledge Building, UCLA/IPAM, Los Angeles, 2007
- eScience 2008, Microsoft/RENCI, Chapel Hill, 2007
- O'Reilly/Nature SciFoo, Googleplex, Menlo Park, 2007
- Future Professional Communication in Astronomy, Brussels, 2007
- Classification Socirty of North America, Keynote, Champagne-Urbana, 2007
- Particle and Particle Astrophysics Information Resource Summit, Palo Alto, 2007
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Palo Alto, 2007
- International Workshop On Research Issues in Digital Libraries, Kolkata, 2006
- eScience, Microsoft/Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 2006
- Improving Access to Publicly Funded Research, Association of Research Libraries and Center for Networked Information, Washington, DC, 2006
- Publishing for Impact, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2006
- Society for Scholarly Publishing, Washington, DC, 2006
- History and Future of Society Journals, American Institute of Physics 75th Anniversary, College Park, 2006
- XXV Annual Charleston Conference, Charleston, 2005
- International Scientific, Medical and Technical Publishers Association, Frankfurt, 2005
- Astronomical Data Analysis, Software and Systems XV, El Escoriel, 2005
- iAstro/COST283, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 2004
- Old Dominion University, Computer Science Dept, Norfolk 2004
- San Francisco State University, Physics and Astronomy Dept. 2004
- Cornell University, Information Science Dept, Ithaca 2004
- International Federation of Classification Societies, Chicago, 2004
- 12th UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science, Beijing, 2003
- *Astronomical Data Analysis II, SPIE, Kona, 2002
- *Astronomical Data Analysis, SPIE, San Diego, 2001
- International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, New Orleans,
2001
- American Society for Information Science, ISI/ASIS Citation Award,
Chicago, 2000
- *Virtual Observatories of the Future, Pasadena, 2000
- Special Libraries Association/ Physics-Astronomy-Math
section, Minneapolis, 1999
- Cornell University, Special Joint Library Science/Astronomy
colloquium, 1999
- Digital Library Federation Steering Committee, Washington, 1998
- Special Libraries Association/ Physics-Astronomy-Math
section, Indianapolis, 1998
- *Converging Computing Methodologies in Astronomy (proceedings
co-editor), Sondhofen, 1997
- *Data and Information Fusion, Granada, 1997
- Boston College, Physics Departmant, 1996
- Wide Field Spectroscopy, plenary lecture, Athens, 1996
- University of Toronto, Astronomy Department, 1995
- *Strategies and Techniques of Information in Astronomy,
Strasbourg, 1995
- CODATA '94: Data and Knowledge in a Changing World: The
Information Revolution, Impact on Science and Technology,
Chambery, 1994
- American Astronomical Society, Special Session on Large Scale
Structure, Minneapolis, 1994
- *Vision Modeling and Information Coding, Nice, 1994
- New Approaches in Classification and Data Analysis,
International Federation of Classification Societies, Paris,
1993
- Astronomy from Wide Field Imaging, IAU Symposium 161, Potsdam,
1993
- George Mason University, Institute for Computational Science
and Informatics, 1992
- Astronomy from Large Databases II, Hagenau, 1992
- Dartmouth College, Department of Math and Computer Science,
1992
- *International Astronomical Union Commission 45, Special
Session on Automated Spectral Classification, Buenos Aires,
1991
- Objective Prism and Other Surveys, Middlebury, 1991
- On-Line Astronomy Documentation and Literature, Baltimore,
1991
- European Space Information System, Strasbourg, 1989
- International Federation of Classification Societies,
Charlottesville, 1989
- University of Milan/CNR Milan, Milan 1988
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, Pasadena, 1988
- *International Astronomical Union Commission 45, Special
Session on Automated Spectral Classification, Baltimore, 1988
- European Southern Observatory, Garching, 1987
- Astronomy from Large Databases, Garching, 1987
- Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, 1985
- Center for Astrophysics Public Lecture, Cambridge, 1984
- Statistical Methods in Astronomy, Strasbourg, 1983
- The MK Process and Stellar Classification, Toronto, 1983
Michael Kurtz' Publication List