Paul Fishwick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer
and Information Sciences at the University of Florida. He received a
BS in Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University, MS in Applied
Science from the College of William and Mary, and PhD in Computer and
Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He also
has six years of industrial/government production and research experience
working at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (doing CAD/CAM
parts definition research) and at NASA Langley Research Center (studying
engineering data base models for structural engineering). His research
interests are in computer simulation modeling and analysis methods for
complex systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the Society
for Computer Simulation. He is also a member of the IEEE Society
for Systems, Man and Cybernetics, ACM and AAAI. Dr. Fishwick founded
the comp.simulation Internet news group (Simulation Digest) in 1987,
which now serves over 15,000 subscribers. He was chairman of the
IEEE Computer Society technical committee on simulation (TCSIM) for two
years (1988-1990) and he is on the editorial boards of several journals
including the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Transactions of
the Society for Computer Simulation, International Journal of Computer
Simulation, and the Journal of Systems Engineering. Dr. Fishwick can
be reached by email at fishwick@cis.ufl.edu or via his World Wide Web home page