Craig Thompson, Ph.D.

Craig Thompson, PhD, ALAR Associate Director and ALAR Steering Committee member, is Professor and Charles Morgan Chair in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is a nationally recognized leader in object and agent technology standards, and his work has had impact in several fields—database systems, software architecture, multi-agent systems, and human-computer interfaces.

Dr. Thompson received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and taught graduate AI and database courses at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He was also a Senior Member of Technical Staff and a Research Manager in the Central Research Labs at Texas Instruments and served as President of Object Services and Consulting, Inc. before joining the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, faculty in 2003. He has a strong record of industrial research and external funding, and he holds six patents with one pending. His background and research interests span agents, grids, scalability, adaptability, survivability, quality of service, web and object integration, compositional middleware architectures, object services, virtual enterprises, object database systems, and natural language interfaces.
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	Craig Thompson, Ph.D. Craig Thompson, PhD, ALAR Associate Director and ALAR Steering Committee member, is Professor and Charles Morgan Chair in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is a nationally recognized leader in object and agent technology standards, and his work has had impact in several fields—database systems, software architecture, multi-agent systems, and human-computer interfaces. Dr. Thompson received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and taught graduate AI and database courses at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He was also a Senior Member of Technical Staff and a Research Manager in the Central Research Labs at Texas Instruments and served as President of Object Services and Consulting, Inc. before joining the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, faculty in 2003. He has a strong record of industrial research and external funding, and he holds six patents with one pending. His background and research interests span agents, grids, scalability, adaptability, survivability, quality of service, web and object integration, compositional middleware architectures, object services, virtual enterprises, object database systems, and natural language interfaces. « Back to People © Copyright 2005 Acxiom Corporation. All rights reserved. Please read our Detailed Online Privacy Statement.