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Moore, Reagan

Reagan Moore (retired) was a professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, chief scientist for Data Intensive Cyber Environmentsat the Renaissance Computing Institute, and director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center at University of North Carolina. He coordinates research efforts in development of datagrids, digital libraries, and preservation environments. Developed software systems include theStorage Resource Broker data grid and the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System. Supported projects include the National Archives and Records Administration Transcontinental PersistentArchive Prototype, and science data grids for seismology, oceanography, climate, high-energyphysics, astronomy, and bioinformatics. An ongoing research interest is use of data grid technology to automate execution of management policies and validate trustworthiness of repositories. Dr. Moore’s previous roles include the following: director of the DICE group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and manager of production services at SDSC. He previously worked as acomputational plasma physicist at General Atomics on equilibrium and stability of toroidal fusiondevices. He has a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego (1978),and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1967)