MEMORANDUM
To: Thomas Isenhour, Provost
Through: Richard Gregory, Dean [ ] Concur
College of Sciences [ ] Do Not Concur, see Attached
From: Kurt Maly, Chair
Computer Science
Date: February 13, 2004
Re: Annual Faculty Evaluation, Michael Nelson
Teaching
Last year Prof. Nelson taught:
CS 695, Introduction to Digital Libraries, Fall 2003, 6 students
CS 495/595, Peer-to-Peer Information Systems, Fall 2003, 9 students
CS 410, Computer Based Productivity I, Spring 2003, 20 students
His student evaluations ranged from 5.00 to 6.00 with a median of 5.6. The Introduction to Digital Libraries course is a course he has developed last year and is the cornerstone of the department’s digital library educational focus. He also developed the Peer-to-Peer class. He is supervising 4 MS students.
Research
Prof. Nelson had 4 refereed publications during CY 2003. He is a Co-PI on two NSF grants of $450k/yr. Of particular importance is his involvement with the development of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, a de facto international standard for digital library interoperability. Prof. Nelson was 1 of 4 co-editors of the protocol document and was extremely active in the OAI technical committee. He continued to edit several guideline and specification documents for the OAI, including the “Specification for an OAI Static Repository and an OAI Static Repository Gateway”. He has given 8 invited talks or tutorials at various, universities, agencies, and national laboratories.
Service
Prof. Nelson continues to serve on the program committee for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference for Digital Libraries. JCDL is the flag-ship conference and archival proceedings for the digital library community. He was a consultant for ASRC Aerospace Corporation for most of CY 2003. From the above information, provided by Prof. Nelson himself, its evaluation by the faculty of the Computer Science Department and my own evaluation, I conclude that Prof. Nelson has met all the expectations of the performance of an assistant professor.
My overall rating within the rank of tenure track faculty is: Very Good
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Michael Nelson, Assistant Professor Kurt Maly, Chair
Computer Science Computer Science
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cc: Michael Nelson