| The
Fifth IASTED International Conference on
WEB-BASED EDUCATION
~WBE 2006~
January
23-25, 2006
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
CONFERENCE
CHAIR
Dr. Vladimir Uskov is a professor of computer science and
information systems at Bradley University (Peoria, IL, USA).
He is also a co-Director of the InterLabs Research Institute
at Bradley University.
His
areas of expertise include Web-Based Education or e-Learning
(1995 – present), Applications of Information Technologies
in Education (1990 – present), Software Engineering
(1979 – present) and Programming Languages (1979 –
present).
Dr. Uskov has
more than 210 professional publications, including 3 textbooks,
3 book chapters, and 29 published articles in referred journals
in 3 different languages.
Dr. Uskov is
the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal on Advanced
Technology for Learning (ISSN: 1710-2251). He is also a
member of editorial boards of 3 international referred journals
on Web-based education.
Dr. Uskov received
numerous grants in his areas of expertise from the National
Science Foundation (NSF), Microsoft Corp., and various governmental
institutions. Currently, Dr. Uskov is a principal investigator
of the NSF project # 0420506 (2004-2008) in Information
Technology. He was a principal investigator of the NSF project
# 0196015 on Web-Based Education (2001-2004), and co-principal
investigator of the NSF grant # 9950029 (1999-2003) and
grant # 0002219 (2000-2001).
In 2004 alone,
Dr. Uskov was a Keynote Presenter of 3 international conferences
-- 33rd IGIP/IEE/ASEE Congress on Engineering Education
in Switzerland, World e-Learning Forum and Expo in Tokyo,
Japan, and international conference on Advances in Computer
Science CIC-2004 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Dr. Uskov taught
regular academic courses in Russia (Moscow State Technical
University, 1988-1995) and in the USA (Michigan State University,
University of Cincinnati, and Bradley University, 1995 –
present). He was a visiting professor in various universities
of France, Germany, Holland, and Italy.
Dr. Uskov is
a Member of the Executive Board of the IEEE Technical Committee
on Learning Technology, Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE
Computer Society, IEEE Education Society, ACM, AACE, IASTED
and the International Academy on Information Networking.
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