Reid G. Smith

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Work Experience

Education

• 1979 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University
• 1969 M.Eng., Electrical Engineering, Carleton University
• 1968 B.Eng., Electrical Engineering, Carleton University

Professional Organizations

• Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member of ARMA (professional association for managing records and information)
• Member of Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

Publications

Lectures

• MaraView – Marathon’s Enterprise Content Management Solution. Presented at Microsoft Global Energy Forum 2010 , Houston, TX, 21 January, 2010. 
• Strengthening Information Management for Reduced Risk. (Reid G. Smith and Russell Stalters). Presented at Oil & Gas Exchange London 2008, London, England, 18 November, 2008. 
• The New Communications World. (Karen V. Strong and Reid G. Smith). Presented at Managing Electronic Records 2008, Chicago, IL, 19 May, 2008. 
• Measuring KM Activity and Progress. (Vincent I. Polley and Reid G. Smith). Presented at Knowledge Leadership Forum 2007, New York, NY, 27 April, 2007. 
• Lessons Learned in Cross-Cultural Knowledge Sharing. Presented at American University Intercultural Management Institute Annual Conference – Best Practices and New Directions in Intercultural Relations: A Forum for Business, Education, and Training Professionals, Washington, DC, 16 March, 2006. 
• Knowledge in Action. Presented at Trinidad & Tobago Institute Of Technology (TTIT), 2 April, 2004. 
• What's Next for Knowledge Management? Evolution and Revolution. (Reid Smith and Guillermo Arango). Presented at APQC’s Ninth Knowledge Management Conference – Getting Results from Knowledge Management: Real-World Best Practices. Grapevine, Texas 7 May, 2004. 
• Knowledge in Action. Presented to the Whitehall & Industry Group, London, England, 9 December, 2003.
• Retaining Practical Knowledge: Proactive Strategies To Deal With A Shifting Work Force. Presented at the Planned Parenthood Health Care Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1 May, 2003.
• Practical Knowledge Management at Schlumberger – InTouch. Information Management Forum. IT – Leading the Enterprise's Return to Innovation, San Diego, CA, 10 February, 2003.
• Connecting People,Sharing Knowledge: Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development. 2002 CEO Forum on Sustainable Business, San Jose, CA, 16 October, 2002.
• Practical Knowledge Management at Schlumberger: InTouch. Virtual Communities Conference, London, England, 17 June, 2002.
• Conference Chairman. Knowledge Management in Oil & Gas, London, England, 23-24 May, 2002.
• Panel Member: CKO Panel - The Buyer Perspective. KM & Communities 2001 East, New York, NY, 11 December, 2001.
• Using Global Knowledge Networks to Make a Quantum Leap in Operational Efficiency. Presented at the Interactive Energy Conference, Houston, TX, 6 December, 2001.
• Communities of Practice: Building and Sustaining Knowledge Networks to Drive Business Results (with Bob Newhouse (APQC). Presented at KMWorld 2001, Santa Clara, CA, 30 October, 2001.
• Next Generation Knowledge Management at PDVSA (with Cindy Hubert, APQC). Presented at the Third PDVSA KM International Forum,, Caracas, Venezuela, 16 October, 2001.
• Knowledge Management in Oil & Gas. Presented at the 1st Repsol-YPF Exploration and Production Technical Congress, Madrid, Spain, 26 September, 2001.
• Knowledge Management at Schlumberger. Presented at the Leveraging HR through Knowledge Management seminar, Confederation of Indian Industry, Mumbai, India, 3 April, 2001.
• Knowledge Management - The Road Ahead. Presented at "Unleashing the Power of Partnerships", the 2nd Conference & Expo of the Staff Exchange Program of The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., 9 May, 2001.
• What's Required in Knowledge Technologies - A Practical View. Presented at the Knowledge Technologies Conference, Austin, Texas, 6 March, 2001.
• Vincent Polley and Reid Smith. KM in the Legal Community: The Schlumberger LawHub. Presented at APQC's Fifth Knowledge Management Conference -Taking Knowledge and Best Practices to the Bottom Line. Las Vegas, 8 December, 2000.
• Technology Support for Communities of Practice. Presented at the American Productivity & Quality Center Knowledge Transfer Session - Successfully Implementing Knowledge Management, Houston, Texas, 8, February, 2000.
• The Road Ahead to Real-Time Knowledge Management. Presented at the Geonetix Conference, Houston, Texas, 28 October, 1999.
• A Roadmap for Knowledge Management. Presented at the National Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, Florida, 20 July, 1999.
• Knowledge Management. Presented at the Arthur Andersen Energy Symposium, Session on Knowledge Management in the Energy Industry, Houston, December 8, 1998.
• Knowledge Management. Presented at the Technology Ventures Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, October 30, 1998.
• W. E. Preeg, R.G. Smith, and D. E. O'Brien. Advances in E&P Technology That Extend the Development of Conventional Hydrocarbons. Presented at the 17th Congress of the World Energy Council, Houston, Texas, 13-18 September, 1998.
• R&D Management: From Distributed to Virtual.  Presented at the International Quality and Productivity Centre Conference on Managing The Virtual Laboratory: Moving towards 5th Generation R&D, London, UK, February, 1998.
• Technology Challenges in Well Construction and Well Productivity.  Offshore Drilling Technologies Workshop - From Today Through To Tomorrow, Aberdeen, UK, November, 1997.
• The Road Ahead to Real-Time Reservoir Management.  Technology Foresight Lecture, Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK, 17 April, 1997. (Variants were presented at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 18 April, 1997 and at the GeoQuest European Client Forum, Prague, Czech Republic, 2 May, 1997.)
• Networks and the Web in an International Technical Company.  Technology Strategy Forum, IBM Hursley Park, UK, April, 1997.
• Research and Development Methodology at Schlumberger.  International Quality and Productivity Centre Conference on Performance Measurements for R&D, London, UK, July, 1996 and December, 1996.
• Transforming R&D into a Customer-Focused Organization.  5^th Conference on Global Business Issues of Technology and R&D, Management Centre Europe, Brussels, Belgium, June, 1996 (with V. Reichert).
• New Technology for Reservoir Optimization.  5^th Annual Conference on Advances in Reservoir Technology (ART '96), London, UK, March, 1996.
• Technology Strategy for Schlumberger Oilfield Services.  Petroleum Science and Technology Institute Forum, Edinburgh, UK, November, 1995.
• Panel Member: Industrial case histories, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Symposium on Assessment of the Value of R&D in Creating National and Corporate Prosperity, Cambridge, UK, October, 1995.
• New Frontiers for Schlumberger.  Cambridge University Petroleum Engineering Conference, September, 1995, Cambridge, UK
• Redesigning R&D for Improved Oilfield Economics.  AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Nice, France, September, 1995.
• Panel Member: Information Technology, Stanford Computer Forum, Stanford, CA, USA, February 1994.
• Keynote Speaker: Artificial Intelligence in the Oilfield: A Schlumberger Perspective.  Artificial Intelligence in Petroleum Exploration and Production Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, May, 1990. (145 KB) 
• Panel Member: Review of 1989 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, MI, USA, August, 1989.
• AI at Schlumberger, AAAI National Conference, Panel on Results from a Study of the First Wave of Expert Systems Applications to Business, Saint Paul, MN, USA, August, 1988.
• Knowledge-Intensive Development Environments.  IFIP WG10.1 Workshop on Concepts and Characteristics of Knowledge-Based Systems, Mt. Fuji, Japan, November, 1987.
• Reusability In An Object-Oriented Programming Environment.  AMCEE/NTU Software Reuse Seminar (Satellite Broadcast), Palo Alto, CA, USA, October, 1987.
• Form and Content in Knowledge-Intensive Development Environments.  IEEE CompCon, Panel on Future Knowledge Engineering Environments, San Francisco, CA, February, 1987. (1 MB) 
• Knowledge-Intensive Development Environments. AAAI National Conference, Panel on Future Directions for Expert Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August, 1986. 
• Representation in Knowledge-Based Systems.  AI Europa, Wiesbaden, Germany, September, 1985. (3.6 MB) 
• Information Appliances: Relevant Artificial Intelligence Themes.  National Computer Conference, Panel on Trends in Computer Systems Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, July 15, 1985. (2.8 MB) 
• Substrates for Log Interpretation and Interpretation Development.  AAPG Research Conference on Knowledge-Based Geologic Information Systems, Keystone, CO, USA, May, 1985 (with Eric Schoen and Gilles Lafue).
• Computational Description of Depositional Environments.  AAPG Research Conference on Knowledge-Based Geologic Information Systems, Keystone, CO, USA, May, 1985 (with Robert Young and Gordon Pirie).
• Knowledge-Based Systems: Concepts, Techniques, Examples.  Canadian High Technology Show , Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 8, 1985 (half-day course). (6 MB) 
• Artificial Intelligence Methods In Well Logging: Substrates and Systems.  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Potential for Applications, La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France, October, 1984.
• Knowledge-Based System Technology and Well Logging.  5th Generation Computing and Expert Systems Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September, 1984.
• An Expert System For Dipmeter Interpretation.  Society of Exploration Geophysicists Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, USA, September, 1983.

Articles

• B.G. Buchanan, J. Glick and R.G. Smith. The AAAI Video Archive. AI Magazine, 29(1): 91-94, Spring 2008.
  • AI Topics and Videos Wiki site.
• R.G. Smith. Add permeability to knowledge flow. E&P, June 2005, pp. 13-17.
• A.T. Rappaport, D.R. Adamson, L. Shih, R.G. Smith, M. Tenenbaum, B. Khoo, S. Cho, A.C. Wolff, R.W. Carlson, and D.A. Whippen; Medstory, Inc., Burlingame, CA; ASCO, Alexandria, VA; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD. Smart Search and Analysis of ASCO Abstracts: The 2003 ASCO Pilot Breast Cancer Information Exchange (BCIE) project. ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting Abstracts, New Orleans, 6 June, 2004, Abstract No. 6066.
• Saad Bargach, Charles Martin and Reid Smith. Managing Drilling Knowledge for Improved Efficiency and Reduced Operational Risk. Presented at the SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, February 2001. SPE/IADC 67821. Reprinted in the Journal of Petroleum Technology, September, 2001, pp. 83-84.
• A. Amin, S. Bargach, J. Donegan, C. Martin, R.G. Smith, M. Burgoyne, P. Censi, P. Day and R. Kornberg. Building a Knowledge-Sharing Culture. Oilfield Review 13, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 48-65. 
• E. Åbø, L. Chipperfield, C. Mottershead, J. Old, R. Prieto, J. Stemke and R.G. Smith. Managing Knowledge Management. Oilfield Review 13, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 66-83. 
• R.G. Smith and A. Farquhar. The Road Ahead for Knowledge Management: An AI Perspective. AI Magazine, 21(4):17-40, Winter 2000. 
• R.G. Smith and G. C. Maitland. The Road Ahead To Real-Time Oil & Gas Reservoir Management. Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers: Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Vol 76A, pp. 539-552, 1998. 
• G. Arango, N. Colley, C. Connelly, K. Greenes, K. Pearse, J. Denis, P. Highnam, C. Durbec, L. Gutman, D. Sims, S. Jardine, T. Jervis, R. Smith, and R. Miles. What's In IT for Us? Oilfield Review 9, no. 3 (Autumn 1997): 2-19. 
• R.G. Smith and A. C. Scott, editors. Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 3. The AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
• A. R. Rappaport and R.G. Smith, editors. Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2. The AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
• E. Schoen, R.G. Smith, and B. G. Buchanan. The Knowledge Base Designer's Assistant: A Preliminary Report. In M. Tokoro, Y. Anzai, and A. Yonezawa, editors, Concepts and Characteristics of Knowledge-based Systems. pp. 105-136, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1990.
• B. G. Buchanan and R.G. Smith. Fundamentals of Expert Systems. In A. Barr and P. R. Cohen and E. A. Feigenbaum, editors, The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, volume IV, chapter XVIII, pp. 150-192. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989.
• C. Jette and R.G. Smith. Examples of Reusability in an Object-Oriented Programming Environment. In T. J. Biggerstaff and A. J. Perlis, editors, Software Reusability, volume II: Applications and Experience, pp. 73-101. ACM Press, New York, New York, 1989.
• E. Schoen, R.G. Smith, and B. G. Buchanan. Design of Knowledge-Based Systems with a Knowledge-Based Assistant. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 14(12):1771-1791, December 1988.
• E. Schoen and R.G. Smith. The Knowledge Base Designer's Assistant: A Preliminary Report. In Proceedings of the Schlumberger Software Conference 1988, pp. 279-293, Ann Arbor, MI, November 1988.
• B. G. Buchanan and R.G. Smith. Fundamentals of Expert Systems. In J. F. Traub, B. J. Grosz, B. W. Lampson, and N. J. Nilsson, editors, Annual Review of Computer Science, volume 3, pp. 23-58. Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1988.
• R.G. Smith, P. S. Barth, and R. L. Young. A Substrate for Object-Oriented Interface Design. In B. Shriver and P. Wegner, editors, Research Directions In Object-Oriented Programming, pp. 253-315. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987.
• E. Wisniewski, H. Winston, R.G. Smith, and M. Kleyn. A Conceptual Clustering Program for Rule Generation. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, (27):295-313, 1987.
• R.G. Smith and R. L. Young. Dipmeter Advisor System: Log Interpretation System in Oil Field. In Expert Systems: Theory and Application, pp. 227-242. Nikkei McGraw-Hill, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, 1986. (In Japanese)
• R.G. Smith, R. Dinitz, and P. Barth. Impulse-86: A Substrate for Object-Oriented Interface Design. In Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Object Oriented Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'86), pp. 167-176, September 1986.
• H. A. Winston, R.G. Smith, M. Kleyn, and T. M. Mitchell and B. G. Buchanan. Learning Apprentice Systems Research at Schlumberger. In T. M. Mitchell, J. G. Carbonell, and R. S. Michalski, editors, Machine Learning: A Guide to Current Research, pp. 379-383. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1986.
• G. M. E. Lafue and R.G. Smith. Implementation of An Integrity Manager With A Knowledge Representation System. In L. Kerschberg, editor, Expert Database Systems. Springer-Verlag, 1986, pp. 333-350.
• R.G. Smith. Report on the 1984 Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop. AI Magazine, 6(3):234-243, Fall 1985.
• R.G. Smith, H. A. Winston, T. M. Mitchell, and B. G. Buchanan. Representation and Use of Explicit Justifications for Knowledge Base Refinement. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 673-680, Los Angeles, CA, August 1985. 
• G. M. E. Lafue and R.G. Smith. A Modular Tool Kit For Knowledge Management. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 46-52, Los Angeles, CA, August 1985.
  Reprinted in Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Databases, J. Mylopoulos and M. L. Brodie, editors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1988.
• R.G. Smith, R. L. Young, G. Lafue, and H. Winston. The Expert Geology Systems Program: Schlumberger-Doll Research. SIGART Newsletter, (92):118-120, April 1985 (Special Section on AI in Engineering, D. Sriram and R Joobbani, editors).
• R.G. Smith and R. L. Young. The Design of the Dipmeter Advisor System. In Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference, pp. 15-23, New York, October 1984.
• R.G. Smith, G. M. E. Lafue, E. Schoen, and S. C. Vestal. Declarative Task Description as a User Interface Structuring Mechanism. IEEE Computer, 17(9):29-38, September 1984.
• R.G. Smith. On the Development of Commercial Expert Systems. AI Magazine, 5(3):61-73, Fall 1984. Reprinted in Readings from AI Magazine, Volumes 1-5, 1980-1985, R. Engelmore, editor, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1988.
• R. Davis and R.G. Smith. Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving. Artificial Intelligence, 20:63-109, 1983. Reprinted in Marc-Philippe Huget (Ed.). Communication in Multiagent Systems: Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2650). Springer Verlag, August 2003. Also available at: Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL). 
• E. Schoen and R.G. Smith. Impulse: A Display-Oriented Editor for Strobe. In Proceedings of the National Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 356-358, Washington, DC, August 1983.
• R.G. Smith. Review of Machine Intelligence 10. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, pp. 351-359, 1983.
• R.G. Smith and J. D. Baker. The Dipmeter Advisor System: A Case Study in Commercial Expert System Development. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1, pp. 122-129, Karlsrühe, Germany, August 1983.
• R.G. Smith. Strobe: Support For Structured Object Knowledge Representation. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 855-858, Karlsrühe, Germany, August 1983.
• R.G. Smith. CNET: Simulation of Distributed Problem Solving. SIGART Newsletter, No. 80, p. 16, April 1982.
• T. M. Mitchell, L. Steinberg, R.G. Smith, P. Schooley, H. Jacobs, and V. Kelly. Representations For Reasoning About Digital Circuits. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 343-344, Vancouver, Canada, August 1981.
• R.G. Smith and R. Davis. Frameworks For Cooperation In Distributed Problem Solving. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC-11(1):61-70, January 1981. Reprinted in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. H. Bond and L. Gasser, editors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1988.
• R.G. Smith. A Framework For Distributed Problem Solving. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1981.
• R.G. Smith. The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver. IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-29(12):1104-1113, December 1980. Reprinted in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. H. Bond and L. Gasser, editors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1988.
• R.G. Smith. Unit Package User's Guide. Technical Memorandum 80/L, Defence Research Establishment Atlantic, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 1980. Also published as HPP-80-28, Heuristic Programming Project, Stanford University.
• R. Davis and R.G. Smith. Cooperative Problem Solving With The Contract Net. SIGART Newsletter, No. 73, pp. 45-46, October 1980.
• R.G. Smith. Applications Of The Contract Net Framework: Search. In Proceedings of the 1980 National Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, pp. 232-239, Saskatoon, Canada, May 1980.
• R.G. Smith and R. Davis. Cooperation In Distributed Problem Solving. In Proceedings of the 1979 International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, pp. 366-371, October 1979.
• R.G. Smith. The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication And Control In A Distributed Problem Solver. In Proceedings of the First International Conference On Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 185-192, October 1979.
• R.G. Smith. A Framework For Distributed Problem Solving. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 836-841, Tokyo, Japan, August 1979.
• R.G. Smith. A Framework For Problem Solving In A Distributed Processing Environment. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, December 1978. Also published as Stanford University Computer Science Department Technical Report STAN-CS-78-700 (HPP-78-28).
• R.G. Smith and R. Davis. Applications Of The Contract Net Framework: Distributed Sensing. In Proceedings of the ARPA Distributed Sensor Net Symposium, pp. 12-20, December 1978.
• R.G. Smith and T. M. Mitchell. Considerations For Microprocessor-based Terminal Design. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Computers, pp. 437-441, November 1978.
  • Slides from the presentation.
  • SMITCH-0 DataMedia Elite 2500 Terminal Emulator (SMITCH0.MAC80).
  • SMITCH-0 Downloader (dload.sai).
  • SMITCH-0 Local Operating System (LMON).
• R.G. Smith and R. Davis. Distributed Problem Solving: The Contract Net Approach. In Proceedings of the Second National Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, pp. 278-287, Toronto, Canada, July 1978.
• B. G. Buchanan, T. M. Mitchell, R.G. Smith, and C. R. Johnson Jr. Models of Learning Systems. In Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, volume 11, pp. 24-51. Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, 1978.
• R.G. Smith. The CONTRACT NET: A Formalism For The Control Of Distributed Problem Solving. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 472, Cambridge, MA, August 1977.
• R.G. Smith, T. M. Mitchell, R. A. Chestek, and B. G. Buchanan. A Model For Learning Systems. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 338-343, Cambridge, MA, August 1977.
• R. Chestek, R.G. Smith, and B. Widrow. Adaptive Formation Of Resource Allocation Strategies. Technical Report SEL-32-76, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 1977.
• R.G. Smith. Cepstrum Analysis For Passive Sonar Data Processing. U. S. Navy Journal of Underwater Acoustics, Vol. 21, pp. 317-326, April 1976.
• R.G. Smith. Cepstrum Discrimination Function. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-21(3):332-334, May 1975.

Teaching

Honors and Awards

Patents

Professional Contributions

• 2002	Special Advisor, Retaining Valuable Knowledge: Proactive Strategies to Deal with a Shifting Work Force, APQC Benchmarking Study
• 2002	Conference Chairman. Knowledge Management in Oil & Gas, London, England
• 1997-1999	Board Member, Centre for Marine and Petroleum Technology.
• 1997-1998	Advisory Board Member, Heriot-Watt University, Petroleum Engineering Department
• 1996-1997	Board Member, Marine Technology Directorate
• 1996-1998	Advisory Board Member, University of Aberdeen, Petroleum Geoscience Department
• 1993-1996	Advisory Board Member, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing
• 1993-1994	Industrial Partner Advisory Board Member, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• 1991	Chairman, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Innovative Applications Conference
• 1990	Co-Chairman, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Innovative Applications Conference
• 1989-1994	Management Board and Editorial Board Member, AAAI Press
• 1989-Present	Program Committee Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Innovative Applications Conference
• 1989-1991	Councilor, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• 1989	Program Committee Member, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium: Knowledge System Development Tools and Languages
• 1988	Program Chairman, American Association for Artificial Intelligence National Conference
• 1987	Program Committee Member, American Association for Artificial Intelligence National Conference
• 1987	Panel Moderator, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Object Oriented Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'87): Design Methodology for Object-Oriented Programming. Orlando, FL, USA, October, 1987. Introduction
• 1986	Workshop Chairman, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Object Oriented Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'86): Object-Oriented Graphics and User Interfaces Portland, OR, USA, September 29, 1986.
• 1986-1987	Program Committee Member, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Object Oriented Systems, Languages, and Applications
• 1986-1987	Program Committee Member, International Conference on Expert Database Systems
• 1985-1994	Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Expert Systems
• 1984	Organizer, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop
• 1982	Program Committee Member, National Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence / Société Canadienne pour Etudes d'intelligence par Ordinateur (CSCSI/SCEIO)
• 1967-1968	Student Branch Chairman, Institute For Electrical And Electronics Engineers, Carleton University

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