Paul A. Fishwick—University of Florida

Paul A. Fishwick is Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. He received the B.S. in Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University, M.S. in Applied Science from the College of William and Mary, and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He also has six years of industrial/government production and research experience working at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (doing CAD/CAM parts definition research) and at NASA Langley Research Center (studying engineering database models for structural engineering). His research interests are in computer-simulation modeling and analysis methods for complex systems. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Society for Computer Simulation. He is also a member of the IEEE Society for Systems, Man and Cybernetics, ACM and AAAI. Dr. Fishwick founded the comp.simulation Internet news group (Simulation Digest) in 1987, which has served numerous subscribers. He has chaired several workshops and conferences in the area of computer simulation, including serving as General Chair of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference. He was chairman of the IEEE Computer Society technical committee on simulation (TCSIM) for two years (1988-1990) and he is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation, International Journal of Computer Simulation, and the Journal of Systems Engineering. He has delivered 12 International keynote addresses at major conferences relating to simulation.