PROCEEDINGS

for the 19th International CODATA Conference
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:
NEW HORIZONS FOR SCIENCE
Berlin, Germany — 7-10 November 2004

International Scientific Program Committee

CODATA 2004 Proceedings Index
Keynotes
Plenaries
Data Archiving
Data Quality
Data Visualization
E-Learning
Environmental Informatics
Gas Hydrates
Infoscience Today
Interoperability
Knowledge Discovery
Multi-disciplinary Data Projects
Open Scientific Communications
Publication and Citation of Scientific Data
Scientific Data for Economic Development
Scientific Informatics in EurAsia
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Posters

Submission/Publication Guidelines

Organization Committees
The International Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Advisory Committee
The Local Organization Committee

Scientific Program
Program at a Glance
Final Detailed Program Book [large pdf file - you may want to right-click and save to your computer]
General Information About the Program

John Rumble
International Scientific Program Committee
Co-chair

John R. Rumble, Jr. is currently the Chief of the Measurement Services Division at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).

He received a Ph.D. (1976) in chemical physics from Indiana University. Prior to joining NIST in 1980, he was at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colorado, and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. He has also worked as a chemist in industry.

In 1993-1994, he was a Department of Commerce Fellow working in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.

John has published extensively in atomic and molecular physics and scientific informatics, including several books. He has been active in developing scientific database standards, including an international standard for industrial data exchange.

He is a Fellow of the American Society for Testing and Materials, a Fellow of ASM International, a member of the Russian Federation Academy of Metrology, a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and recipient of the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal. In 1998, John was elected President of the Committee on Data (CODATA) of the International Council of Scientific Unions.