Michael McRobbie
| Michael McRobbie | |
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| 18th President of Indiana University | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Adam Herbert |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Michael Alexander McRobbie October 11, 1950 |
| Spouse(s) | Laurie Burns |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| Website | http://www.indiana.edu/~pres/ |
Michael Alexander McRobbie (born October 11, 1950) is an Australian-American computer scientist, educator and academic administrator. He became the eighteenth president of Indiana University on July 1, 2007.
Michael Alexander McRobbie was born October 11, 1950 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and grew up in the Gold Coast. He graduated with a BSc with First Class Honors from the University of Queensland in 1974, and with a PhD from the Australian National University in 1979. His early work was in philosophy, artificial intelligence and automated theorem proving. After a postdoctoral fellowship in philosophy, he founded an automated reasoning project, the ANU Centre for Information Science Research and the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems.
From 1990 through 1996 he was a professor at the Australian National University. He had a growing interest in international research collaborations. In 1996 he and Kilnam Chon proposed what became Asia Pacific Advanced Network at a symposium held at Tsukuba, Japan. In 1997 he became the vice president for information technology at Indiana University. The network operations center for the Abilene Network was established at IU under his direction, and the Pervasive Technology Laboratories were established with a $29.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment in 1999.
McRobbie was principal investigator of a project sponsored by the US National Science Foundation to connect US and Asian national research and education networks called TransPAC. The state-funded $5.3 million I-Light project connected all campuses of the IU system with fiber optic communications (further expanded in 2010). In 2003 he became the vice president for research of IU. In 2005, the TransPAC2 project was funded as a follow-on to TransPAC. He was chairman of the steering committee for the Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative (METACyt), which was the largest outside funded project in the history of Indiana University Bloomington.
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