Mark S. FoxEnterprise Integration LaboratoryUniversity of Toronto 40 St. George St., Rm. 8114, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G9 Tel: +1-416-978-6823 Email: msf@eil.utoronto.ca Updated: 3 February 2007 |
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BiographyDr. Fox is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, was a AAAI councilor, and was a co-founder of the AAAI Special Interest Group in Manufacturing. He was also elected a joint fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advance Research and PRECARN. He is also a member of ACM, CSCSI, IEEE, IIE, and SME. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1975, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983.
Prof. Fox is also co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Novator Systems, an out-source eRetail services and software company, co-founder and Managing Director of ChocolatePlanet.com an online retailer of premium choclates, and co-founder of Dashboard Communications a provider of financial information distribution software. Since returning to the University of Toronto in 1991, Dr. Fox's research has focused on theories of enterprise engineering (i.e., information technology for business process engineering), constrained-directed reasoning, a unified theory of scheduling, enterprise modelling (i.e., TOVE) and coordination theory. These theories have been applied to the problems of Concurrent Engineering, Supply Chain Management and Business Process Re-engineering at companies such as Boeing, BHP, and ILOG. His current research interests continues the development of Ontologies for the modelling and analysis of Enterprises.
Prior to his return to Toronto, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and director of the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Systems of The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was also a co-founder of Carnegie Group Inc, a knowledge-based software company that focused on engineering, manufacturing, and telecommunications applications. As director of the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Decision Systems, he managed one of the largest efforts in the United States focused on extending and applying Intelligent Systems, including Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research, to engineering and manufacturing problems, including: job-shop scheduling (ISIS/CORTES), project management (Callisto), alloy design (Aladin), facility design (WRIGHT), mechanical design (Design Fusion), cutting fluid selection (GREASE), distribution system analysis (INET), knowledge-based simulation (KBS), and process diagnosis (PDS). This work has been funded by Alcoa Corp., Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Boeing Computer Services, Cincinatti Milacron Inc., Digital Equipment Corp., Chrysler Corp., General Electric Corp., Gulf Oil, Westinghouse Electric Corp., IBM, and McDonnell Douglas Corp. Dr. Fox's research in Constraint-Directed Scheduling, contributed to the forming of the sub-field of scheduling research within Artificial Intelligence. The PDS system (aka GENAID), which he designed as a consultant to Westinghouse Electric Corp., was one of the first realtime sensor-based diagnosis systems. It has been in production use since 1985. It was recognized as one of the top 100 engineering achievements of 1986 (IR100). Dr. Fox was also a member of the Hearsay-II speech understanding project which was one of the first 1000 word continuous speech understanding systems that met the ARPA 5-year project goals. Dr. Fox also has a brother, Howard Fox, who is an artist. His work can be seen at: www.HowardFox.com. |