BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH John McCarthy is a computer scientist with over twenty-five years of experience in database design, information management, and user interface development. A member of LBL's staff since 1980, he has participated in implementation of several major information systems for different types of scientific data and metadata.
Name John Lockhart McCarthy	Position Title Computer Scientist				Birthdate Mo., Day, Yr Jan 24, 1943
EDUCATION (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION Stanford University, Stanford, California Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (IBM Fellowship for Computers in the Humanities)		DEGREE BA Ph.D.	CONFERRED 1964 1970	FIELD OF STUDY History History
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Concluding with present position, list, in chronological order, previous employment, experience, and honors. Include present membership on any Federal Government public advisory committee. List, in chronological order, the titles and complete references to all publications.

9/68-9/74 Department of History, Yale University

began as an Acting Instructor and left as an Assistant Professor; taught Quantitative Methods for Historical Research and American History; served five years on Yale Computer Center Operations Committee; awarded American Council of Learned Societies Grant for Computer Research.

9/74-3/80 Survey Research Center, University of California

Assistant to the Director; managed both internal and contract projects; supervised nine data analysts, computer programmers, and data librarian; designed and implemented data analysis and information retrieval systems, including CRS POLLS database; taught introductory graduate course in social science statistics and computing.

3/80-- Computer Science Research Department, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL)

In addition to the projects listed below, I have served on various LBL committees, and chaired committees on database management and library automation.

3/80-9/84 Socio-Economic, Environmental, Demographic Information System (SEEDIS)

Developed data description language, data dictionaries, integrated user interface, and management for very large databases, including the 1970 and 1980 United States Censuses. Helped coordinate staff of ten, developing reports based on 1980 Census data, with emphasis on design of system, tables, charts, and text.

1/84-11/88 Principal Investigator, Scientific Information Research Project

Designed and directed implementation of prototype Materials Information for Science and Technology (MIST) system, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratory, U.S. DoE, and National Bureau of Standards. MIST was the prototype for what is now the Material Properties Data Network of Chemical Abstracts Service.

12/88-94 Genome Computing Group, Deputy Head

Database and user interface design. LBL coordinator for international collaboration on extensions to ACEDB genome database and graphic display system.

10/89-9/90 Principle Investigator, Data Interchange Standards Report

Sponsored by National Library Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnical Information.

10/90-94 Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource Project (CEDR)

High-level system design, metadata management, liason with non-DOE users.

9/91-94 Principal Investigator, USDA Plant Genome Collaborations

Database and software development for Soybean, Wheat and Forest Tree Genome Projects, in cooperation with LBL's Human Genome Center and LBL projects on Human and Drosophila genomes.

9/95- Principal Investigator, Cotton Genome Database Project [currently 0.5 FTE]

Database and software development for Cotton Genome Resarch Project at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

J. McCarthy, D. Merrill, A. Marcus, W. Benson, F. Gey, H. Holmes, and C. Quong, "The SEEDIS Project: A Summary Overview of the Socio-Economic, Environmental, Demographic Information System," Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report, PUB-424, Rev. May 1982.

J. McCarthy, "Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases," in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Very Large Databases (Mexico City, September 1982), 234-243.

D. Merrill and J. McCarthy, "Codata Tools: Portable Software for Self-Describing Data Files," in Computer Science and Statistics: Twelfth Annual Symposium on the Interface (Houston, Texas, March 1983), 245-251.

J. McCarthy, "Scientific Information = Data + Meta-data," Database Management: Proceedings of A Workshop November 1-2, 1984, held at the U.S. Navy Postgraduate School, Monterey, California (Department of Statistics Technical Report, Stanford University, 1985)

J. McCarthy, "Information Systems Design for Material Properties Data," Computerization and Networking of Materials Property Databases, (Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Computerization and Networking of Materials Property Databases, Philadelphia, November 2, 1987) ASTM, Philadelphia 1989

J. McCarthy, "The Automated Data Thesaurus: A New Tool for Scientific Information," Proceedings of the 11th International CODATA Conference (Karlsruhe, Germany) September, 1988.

W. Benson and J McCarthy, "Designing a Macintosh Interface to a Mainframe Database," Proceedings of the 22nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (January, 1989)

J. McCarthy, "Data Thesaurus for Physical Mapping" DOE Contractors Workshop (Santa Fe, NM), Nov., 1989

J. McCarthy, "Data Interchange Standards for Biotechnology: Issues and Alternatives," Report prepared for the National Library of Medicine, Center for Biotechnical Information (April, 1990) [27 pp]

J. L. McCarthy, "Computers and Biotechnical Terminology: Accessing and Integrating Data from Diverse Sources," in The Terminology of Biotechnology: A Multidisciplinary Problem, ed. Kurt Loening, pages 187-196, Springer Verlag, (Berlin, Heidelberg 1991)

J. McCarthy et al, "Genome Computing at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory" in W. Barker, ed., Information Integration for Biological Macromolecules, CODATA Bulletin 23(4) 1991, 5-18.

J. McCarthy, "Map Database & User Interface Development: Project Status Report for the LBL Human Genome Center Site Review" (January, 1992)

J. McCarthy, "Object-Oriented Data Description for Biotechnical Information" Proceedings of the 13th International CODATA Conference (Beijing, 1992)

S. Lewis, J. McCarthy, E. Theil, A. Aggarwal, D. Davy, S. Pitluck, M. Palazzolo,"21Bdb: A Database for Human DNA Sequence Information" DOE Contractors Workshop (Santa Fe, NM), Feb., 1993.

D. Matthews, O. Anderson, S. Altenbach, and J. McCarthy, "Progress in Establishing a Wheat Genome Database" Proceedings of the 8th International Wheat Genetics Symposium (July, 1993, Beijing)

A. Shoshani, M. Durst, H.H.Holmes, J. McCarthy, S. Prem, "Modifications to CEDR Metadata Schema to Accommodate New Types of Data File Sets," LBL Technical Report, LBL-35249 (January, 1994)

J. McCarthy, "Mosaic, ACEDB, and OPM: Integrating Diverse Data and Analysis Tools," Invited Presentation to Ministry of Education Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, March, 1994.

A. Aggarwal, D. Davy, E. DeMund, J. McCarthy, E. Theil, "Syndb: A Multi-Species Database For Mapping and Sequence Information" Genome Mapping and Sequencing Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, New York (May, 1994)

[this seems to be my latest CV]