<p>Ed Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell (working with Gerry Salton), and a B.S. from M.I.T. (working with J.C.R. Licklider). Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Tech, where he directs the Digital Library Research Laboratory. He is Executive Director and Founder of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and was a member of the CRA Board. He was chair of ACM SIGIR and of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, and is chair of the steering committee for JCDL. He has been (co-)Principal Investigator on over 113 research grants/ contracts. He has been involved in about 1000 publications or presentations, related to all aspects of digital information.</p>