James Storer

James A. Storer received his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University in 1975, his M.A. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1977, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1979. From 1979 to 1981 he was a researcher (MTS) at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In 1981 he came to Brandeis University, where he served as Chair of the Computer Science Department from 1992 to 2002 and is currently Full Professor of Computer Science and member of the Brandeis Center for Complex Systems. Dr. Storer's research interests include computer algorithms, communications and internet related computing, data compression and archiving (including text, images, video, and multi-media), storage and processing of large data sets, image retrieval, object recognition, text, image, and video processing, parallel computing, machine learning. He has obtained U.S. patents, does computing technology consulting, including serving as an expert witness in patent litigation, and has served as Chair of the annual Data Compression Conference (proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press).