Field of Specialization

• Multimedia Systems and Applications
• User Interfaces Design and Implementation
• Database Management Systems

Education

• BA, Mathematics, University of California at Irvine (1970)
• PhD, Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine (1976)
  Thesis: "Formalization for Modelling Structures and the Automatic Generation of Efficient Implementation Structures" (Advisor Fred Tonge)

Awards

• "Best Paper Award," 1998 ACM Multimedia Conference
  A. Swan, S. McCanne, and L.A. Rowe, "Layered Transmission and Caching for the Multicast Session Directory Service"
• "The Most Impactful paper from the ACM SIGMOD Conference Ten Years Ago," 1996 ACM SIGMOD
  M.R. Stonebraker and L.A. Rowe, "The Design of POSTGRES"
• "The Best Experimental Paper Award," 1991 OOPSLA Conference
  J. Konstan and L.A. Rowe, "Developing a GUIDE using Object-Oriented Programming"

Experience

• EECS, University of California at Berkeley
  Emeritus Professor (July 2003 - present)
  Professor (July 1988 - June 2003)
  Associate Professor (July 1980 - June 1988 (on leave 1983))
  Assistant Professor (July 1976 - June 1980)
  • Teaching and research in computer science. Major research projects on multimedia systems and applications, graphical user-interface development systems, database application development tools, database management systems, and computer-integrated manufacturing. Research funded by grants from National Science Foundation, Department of Defense agencies, California State Government, and industry.
  • Taught undergraduate and graduate courses on introductory programming, programming languages and compilers, database management systems, human-computer interfaces, and multimedia systems and applications. Research advisor for over 50 Masters and 10 Phd graduates.
  • Served on numerous department, college, and unversity committees including:
    1. EECS Computer Needs Committee (Chair 1980-83),
    2. CS Building Committee (co-chair 1984-8),
    3. CS Graduate Study Committee (chair 1984-5),
    4. Academic Senate Computing and Telecommunications Committee (1985-7, 1995-7, chair 1997-8),
    5. CS Graduate Admissions Committee (chair 1988-90, 93-6),
    6. EECS Faculty Recruiting Committee (1997, co-chair 1998)
    7. Chancellor's Undergraduate Scholarship and Honors Committee (1991-3),
    8. CS Preliminary Examination Committee (1992-4),
    9. Berkeley Multimedia Research Advisory Committee (1994-2003),
    10. Statewide Academic Senate Committee on Information Systems and Telecommunications Policy (1995-6, chair 1996-8).
    11. College of Engineering Committee for Televised Instruction (chair 1996-1999).
    12. Computing Commission ad hoc Advisory Committee (1998).
  • NSF Computer Science Network Committee (member 1979-82).
  • ACM Systems Software Award Committee (member 1987-91, chair 89-91).
  • NRC Panel on Telecommunications (member 1993-4).
  • Internet2 Applications Committee (1997-2003)
  • ACM SIG Multimedia Chair (1998-2003).
  • Editorial Board Member
    1. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (2004-present)
    2. ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (1999-2003)
  • Served on over 20 program committees for professional conferences (chaired five).
  • General Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia 2003.
  • Consultant to many companies including Apple (1979-82), Dust Inc. (2002-present), Eloquent (1995-1999), Fast Forward Networks (1999-2001), FX Palo Alto Laboratories (2004-present), Harris Semiconductor (1988-91), Hughes Aircraft (1976-7), Inktomi (1996-2003), Motorola (1991-3), NEC (2004-present), nCast (1999-present) Sematech(1991-3), Siemens (1998-2003), and Tandem (1984).
  
  
• Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, University of California at Berkeley
  Director (July 1995 - June 2003)
  • The Berkeley Multimedia Research Center is an interdisciplinary research group working on applications of multimedia technology to business, education, research, and society.
  • Principal Investigator, "Digital Media Storage and Delivery," NSF Research Infrastructure Grant (1995) to build a high speed campus network linking together multimedia researchers, laboratories, and a large hierarchical storage system.
  • Executive producer for multimedia web titles and webcasts.
  
  
• Siemens Technology-to-Business
  Member, Board of Directors, 1999 - 2003

• nCast Corporation
  Co-founder, 1999
  Member, Board of Directors, 1999 - present

• Inktomi Corporation
  Member, Technical Advisory Board, 1996 - 2003

• Ingres Corporation
  Co-founder 1980
  Consulting Vice President, 1980 - 1990
  Vice President, Research and Development, January 1983 - December 1983
  Member, Board of Directors, September 1988 - October 1990.

Other Professional Activities

• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
• Member, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Publications