Joan A. Smith is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department. Her educational background includes courses at the University of Korea, Panama Canal College, and Monterey Peninsula College. She holds an M.A. degree in computer education from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, a B.A. degree in natural science from the University of the State of New York in Albany, and a Ph.B. (Bachelor's in Philosophy) in Philosophy from the University of Louvain, Belgium.
Her primary research interest is in digital information preservation. She was awarded the Zipf Fellowship in 2004 for showing "exceptional promise for leadership and technical achievement in information management".
For more than 12 years, Joan worked in information systems for private industry on such issues as migration from older to new technologies, automating systems from pen-and-paper to digital formats, and rescuing data from near loss caused by system obsolescence. In the process, she has worked closely with US and NATO forces, the Defense Information Systems Agency, and the French Navy. Her experiences in dealing with the on-going problems of digital object obsolescence led her to pursue graduate research on this topic.
She is co-author of the paper "Toward Alternative Metrics of Journal Impact: A Comparison of Usage and Citation Data", to be published Summer 2005 in a special issue of the journal of Information Processing and Management. For additional background and other research projects, see Joan's home site at http://www.joanasmith.com
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