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Mihalo, William
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
 
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William E. Mihalo is a senior high-performance computing systems engineer with the Academic and Research Technologies group within Northwestern University's Information Technologies division.

He graduated with a doctorate in sociology from Bowling Green State University in the late 1970s. His specialties were social organization and demography. His computer programming background started by taking an elective programming course as an undergraduate, and continued with additional programming classes as a graduate student. In 1974, he started work on his doctorate and provided programming support for the Professional Development Project at Bowling Green State University.

He joined Indiana University Northwest (IUN) in 1977 as a visiting assistant professor of sociology. In 1978, he became a tenure-track assistant professor of sociology at IUN. During this time, he developed skills using IBM and CDC mainframes and also using the newly introduced Apple II computer.

After teaching sociology courses for about five years, he realized that supporting large, complex computer clusters was much easier than trying to understand the complexities associated with human societies.

He joined Vogelback Computing Center at Northwestern University in 1981, and specialized in providing support for statistical analysis. He also worked on a number of computer graphics projects and helped users debug software programs.

He joined Purdue University Calumet in 1985 and provided the background information that was obtained from the user community to justify the purchase of Purdue Calumet's VAX computer cluster in 1986.

In 1987, he joined Loyola University Medical Center where he started as a manager of academic computing and spent 16 years as a computer systems manager for radiation oncology. At Loyola, he specialized in providing support for highly available computing clusters running within a Windows and Unix environment. He also introduced the radiation oncology department to a storage area network and provided support for high-performance Unix workstations that did 3D treatment planning for radiation oncology patients. He also provided software support for the computers associated with the Varian 23 EX linear accelerators that were located at Loyola University Medical Center and Hines Veterans Administration Hospital.

In 2006, he joined the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory as a systems administrator. At the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, he provided support for the National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource (NMPDR), Globusonline, Globus toolkit, TeraGrid, and the Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center (TRACC) projects. Within this environment, he specialized in supporting computer clusters, grid computing, grid computing software, and working within a number of cloud environments.

He returned to Northwestern University in May 2011.

He has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 1983, specializing in reviews on the social effects of computing, computer graphics, privacy, and systems administration.

 
 
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  A survey on food computing
Min W., Jiang S., Liu L., Rui Y., Jain R. ACM Computing Surveys 52(5): 1-36, 2019.  Type: Article

The authors have written an extensive survey of the published literature related to food computing. The survey is about 26 pages long, with an additional ten pages of (about 300) references....

Nov 27 2020  
  Big data privacy preservation for cyber-physical systems
Pan M., Wang J., Errapotu S., Zhang X., Ding J., Han Z., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 84 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030133-69-6)

This monograph gives an introduction to cyber-physical systems (CPS). These are systems that are controlled by computers and influence objects in the physical world. Areas discussed include spectrum trading (where specific radio freque...

Nov 11 2020  
  The calculus of service availability
Sloss B., Dahlin M., Rau V., Beyer B. Queue 15(2): 49-67, 2017.  Type: Article

The authors give a brief introduction to the service availability required by service-level objectives (SLOs) for availability and responsiveness. The article makes many references to Google’s Site reliability engineering:...

May 21 2020  
  Detecting fake news on social media
Shu K., Liu H., Morgan&Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2019. 130 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-681735-82-5)

The authors have written an interesting book that summarizes problems related to detecting fake news....

Mar 3 2020  
  Access controls and health care records: Who owns the data?
Evans D., McDonald R., Coatta T. Queue 17(2): 76-92, 2019.  Type: Article

This is an interesting discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta. David Evans is the chief technology officer (CTO) of Toronto-based HealthChain, Richard McDonald is a recently retired IBM Distinguished Engineer, ...

Sep 20 2019  
  An enhancement of computer aided approach for colon cancer detection in WCE images using ROI based color histogram and SVM2
Shanmuga Sundaram P., Santhiyakumari N. Journal of Medical Systems 43(2): 1-8, 2019.  Type: Article

The authors describe a method to process the information gathered in wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) images and ultimately determine whether a region of interest (ROI) is benign, malignant, or normal....

Mar 29 2019  
  Inferring user intents from motion in hearing healthcare
Johansen B., Korzepa M., Petersen M., Pontoppidan N., Larsen J.  UbiComp 2018 (Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers, Singapore, Oct 8-12, 2018) 670-675, 2018.  Type: Proceedings

This short, interesting paper combines the activity that can be detected via a smartphone with the soundscape that encompasses a person. The smartphone can be used to assess the overall sound that surrounds an individual....

Jan 30 2019  
   The institutional approach for modeling the evolution of human societies
Powers S. Artificial Life 24(1): 10-28, 2018.  Type: Article

Powers defines institutions as “political game forms that generate the rules of a group’s economic interactions.” He draws heavily from Leonid Hurwicz’s game theory in developing a model of insti...

Dec 28 2018  
  A viewable indexing structure for the interactive exploration of dynamic and large image collections
Rayar F., Barrat S., Bouali F., Venturini G. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 12(1): 1-26, 2018.  Type: Article

The authors are interested in developing a method for building and indexing a large collection of images and providing a means for studying these images. Their interest is in assembling a collection of images that are arranged accordin...

May 31 2018  
  The wisdom of older technology (non)users
Knowles B., Hanson V. Communications of the ACM 61(3): 72-77, 2018.  Type: Article

This interesting article studies the technology use of 14 individuals living in post-retirement communities in Scotland. The age range of the subjects is 66 to 86....

May 16 2018  
 
 
 
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