Florida International University (FIU) the public university in Miami Naphtali David Rishe the Inaugural Outstanding University Professor Professor of Computer Science Director, High Performance Database Research Center Director, NASA Regional Applications Center Director, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center:     Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement

Dr. Rishe is the Author of 3 books on database design and geography; Editor of 5 books on database management and high performance computing; Inventor of 4 U.S. patents on database querying, semantic database performance, Internet data extraction, and computer medicine; Author of over 200 papers in journals and proceedings on databases, software engineering, Geographic Information Systems, Internet, and life sciences; Awardee of over $35 million in research grants by Government and Industry, including NASA, NSF, IBM, DoI, USGS; Architect of major industrial projects -- both prior to his academic career, and as a consultant since; Founder and Director of the High Performance Database Research Center at FIU; Mentor of 70 postdocs, PhDs and MS; the inaugural FIU Outstanding University Professor. Rishe's TerraFly project has been extensively covered by worldwide press, including the New York Times, USA Today, NPR, Science and Nature journals, and FOX TV News.

Principal Projects:

• TerraFly -- a 40 TB database of aerial imagery and Web-based GIS
• Semantic Wrapper of Relational Databases and Application of SQL for Concise Semantic Querying
• Semantic Database Management
• Medical Informatics

High Performance Database Research Center, School of Computing and Information Sciences, University Park, FIU ECS-243, Miami, FL 33199
Telephone: (305) 348-1706; FAX: (305) 348-1707; http://hpdrc.fiu.edu