Dr. David W. Embley, a 2006 recipient of the Karl G. Maeser Award in Research and Creative Arts, has focused his research on information extraction from webpages. His research makes it possible for users to have their computers answer specific questions, rather than just typing in a search and receiving lists of webpage references. This new technology has the potential to dramatically alter the ways in which humans interact with machines in everything from surfing the web to researching family history. Read More

Several years ago, after returning from his LDS mission to Houston, Texas, David Cline was sitting in his upper-level electrical engineering seminar class, listening to an expert in the field talk about his life’s work and realizing with ever-increasing clarity that this was NOT what he wanted to do with the rest of his life.  Cline made the decision to switch majors to computer science and now, looking back as he prepares to complete his doctoral dissertation, muses, “it hasn’t been too bad of a choice.”

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David Crowther graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Computer Science in 1993.  Following graduation he went to work for Novell where he has been employed for 14 years, holding positions in the Technical Support Division, on the Common Engineering Services Team, and currently as Director of Global Technical Support.  He and his team are currently responsible for supporting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop, Open Enterprise Server, NetWare, and Novell's Web Products, such as iFolder, Apache, Tomcat, PHP, Perl, and MySQL.   He has authored hundreds of Technical Support Documents for publication on Novell's support Website as well as other technical documentation for Novell. 

 

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