South Beach Hoosier had been meaning to add this since the initial post on March 20th about this announcement. Consider it done.
Photo of Michael McRobbie from his old IU bio: sheet http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/people/profiles.asp?u=mcrobbie
http://www.indiana.edu/~newpres/biography.shtml
Michael A. McRobbie, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs, will become Indiana University’s 18th president on July 1. He was unanimously appointed to the position on March 1 by the IU Board of Trustees after a seven-month presidential search that reviewed more than 200 potential candidates for the position.
In making their decision, trustees cited McRobbie’s extensive record of accomplishment in various roles as a senior administrator at IU as well as his strong academic credentials.
McRobbie, 56, a native of Australia, joined IU in January 1997 as vice president for information technology and chief information officer. In May 2003, he was given the additional responsibilities of vice president for research. The Board of Trustees in January 2006 appointed McRobbie to his current position.
McRobbie will replace Adam W. Herbert, who has served as IU president since August 2003.
In his 10 years at IU, McRobbie has led an extensive transformation in information technology and has overseen the development of several major research projects and initiatives for the university. During his tenure at IU, research grants awarded to the university have more than doubled, increasing from $200 million in 1996 to an all-time high of $477 million in 2005. IU has also achieved national recognition for its strengths in life sciences research, information technology, and the arts and humanities.
When McRobbie came to IU, then-IU President Myles Brand asked him to create a modern information technology environment throughout the university that would make the university a leader “in absolute terms for uses and applications of IT.”
As a first step, McRobbie prepared the IU Information Technology Strategic Plan, which identified goals and objectives for the ambitious vision. As part of the restructuring process, he created University Information Technology Services to support the academic and administrative work of the university. He also played a major role in the creation of the School of Informatics, the nation’s first university program to combine all aspects of information technology into a single discipline.
McRobbie also directed the development of I-Light, an integrated, high-speed optical fiber network that links IU Bloomington, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and Purdue University—and now includes other universities—providing students and faculty with a rich research and computing environment. His foresight led to IU’s involvement and management of the Internet2 Abilene network, a national, high-speed data network that supports research between universities across the country and has fostered relationships for high-speed connections around the world. He also founded IU’s Pervasive Technology Laboratories, funded in 1999 by a $30 million grant from the Lilly Endowment.
When his tenure as vice president for research began, McRobbie focused his attention on increasing external funding for IU programs with the goal of doubling such funding by 2010. He has been instrumental in securing multimillion dollar grants for life sciences initiatives such as the Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative (METACyt) and the Indiana Genomics Initiative at IU (INGEN), as well as for the popular New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program, which supports the creation of major new works of art in a variety of genres.
In 2006, he helped the university reach a deal with IBM to acquire one of the world’s 20 most powerful supercomputers, ensuring IU’s continued leadership in national research initiatives such as the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid, which links the nation’s most powerful supercomputers.
Since being appointed interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at IU Bloomington, McRobbie has pursued campus priorities for the arts and humanities, life sciences, and international activities, and the recruitment and retention of students and faculty. He also has developed an international strategic plan to help create and nurture global relationships that support the university’s academic programs and provide opportunities for faculty and students. He led university delegations to China and Japan in 2006 that resulted in cooperative research ventures with several of those nations’ premier universities.
McRobbie came to IU from the Institute of Advanced Study at the Australian National University, where he was a professor of information technology and chief executive officer of the Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Computational Systems.
In addition to his senior administrative responsibilities at IU, McRobbie holds professorships in computer science, informatics, and philosophy, and adjunct professorships in cognitive science and information science on the IU Bloomington campus. He is also a professor of computer technology in the Purdue School of Engineering at the IUPUI campus.
A member of many national and international industrial, governmental, and scientific boards and committees, McRobbie currently holds appointments on the Sun Microsystems Academic Advisory Council, the Dell Platinum Council, the Internet2 International Relations Committee, and the Microsoft Higher Education Advisory Group, among others.
He has led various technology initiatives in the area of high performance computing and communications for large universities, industry, and government. In 2004, he was named to Computerworld magazine’s list of “Premier 100 IT Leaders,” which honors the top information technology strategists in the United States.
He has extensive interest and experience, in particular, with industry, research, and government organizations in Asia, and established a major research collaboration agreement with Fujitsu, Japan’s largest computer company. He also reached a similar agreement with Japan’s Fifth Generation Computer Project and later served on its International Evaluation Committee. Prior to arriving at IU, he was a co-founder of the high-performance broadband Asia Pacific Advanced Network, which supports the research and education community all across the Asia-Pacific region.
McRobbie is the author, co-author, or editor of several books and nearly 100 academic papers. He has been a member of the editorial board of a number of international journals and book series in information technology.
A principal investigator on numerous grants, his research interests include artificial intelligence, automated theorem-proving and computational logic, high performance networking, and the non-numerical applications of parallel supercomputing, especially in symbolic computation. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Queensland and a doctoral degree at Australia National University.
In his spare time, McRobbie is an avid reader with a special interest in history and the arts. A widower who recently remarried, he and his wife, Laurie Burns, enjoy travel and keep busy with their six children.
Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Indiana University
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President-elect McRobbie's old bio sheet read like this:
http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/people/profiles.asp?u=mcrobbie
Michael McRobbieProfessor of Informatics
E-mail mcrobbie@indiana.edu
Phone (812) 855-5752
Office Franklin 116
Other Titles:
Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, Indiana University
Vice President for Research, Indiana University
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Computer Technology in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI
Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science , College of Arts and Sciences
Adjunct Professor of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science
Biography
Professor Michael McRobbie has been vice president for information technology and CIO at Indiana University since January, 1997. His position involves responsibility for all information technology matters on all seven campuses of Indiana University.
McRobbie has assumed the additional title of Indiana University vice president for research. He will be responsible for research university-wide, placing significant emphasis on attracting new federal funding to IU.
McRobbie is also CEO of the Pervasive Technology Laboratories — an initiative funded in 1999 through a $30M grant from the Lilly Endowment, and is chief information architect for the Indiana Genomics Initiative — funded in 2000 with a $105M grant from the Lilly Endowment.
Before joining IU, McRobbie was a professor in the Institute of Advanced Study at Australian National University and CEO of the Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Computational Systems.
McRobbie is the chair of the Committee of Visitors for the NSF Advanced Computational Research Program, co-chair of the TransPAC Mananagement Committee, and chair of the CIC-CIO Committee. He is a member of numerous other industrial, government, and scientific boards and committees nationally and internationally. These include the Advisory Commitee for the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, the National Academies Forum on Information Technologies and Research Universities, the Sun Microsystems Academic Advisory Council, the Dell Platinum Council, the Internet2 Network Policy and Planning Advisory Council, the Internet2 Abilene Executive Committee, the Review Committee for the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, the OpenGlobe Board of Directors, and the Executive Committee of the Indiana Technology Partnership. He is also a senior advisor in networking to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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