Beth A. Plale
Professor of Computer Science
Contact Information
plale [at] indiana.edu
(812) 855-4373
Informatics East, Room 256A
Website
Office hours: T 3-5:00 Spring 2010
Other Titles and Honors
- Director, Data to Insight Center of Pervasive Technologies
- Institute Director, Center for Data and Search Informatics
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
- Ph.D. in Computer Science at State University of New York Binghamton, 1998
- M.S. in Computer and Information Science at Temple University, 1992
Courses
- B534 Distributed Systems (Homepage)
- B438 Fundamentals of Computer Networks
- B649 Systems Support for Wide Area Applications Systems
- B669/I590 Topics in Data and Search Informatics
- P436 Introduction to Operating Systems
- I590 Topics in Data and Search Informatics
Biography
Beth Plale is Director of the Data To Insight Center of Pervasive Technologies Institute, and Professor of Computer Science in the School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington. Professor Plale has a strong research interest in metadata and provenance of digital scientific data particularly for purposes of long term preservation and focuses on "the first mile" where collection is automatic and close to the generation source. Plale is deeply engaged in environmental and atmospheric science research and has substantive experience in developing stable and useable scientific cyberinfrastructure.
Research Areas
- Cyberinfrastructure and e-Science
- Database Theory and Systems
- Digital Preservation
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
