Entrepreneurial Experience

President & CEO of two Internet startups: 1996- 2001. WebWisdom.com, Inc specialized in business collaboration software. Responsible for defining the company’s business plan, understanding markets and competitors, pricing software, negotiating partnerships, and developing licensing and contract agreements.

Webtopsystems, Inc provided technology consulting to Fortune 1000 companies developing web based information technology strategies. Webtopsystems developed an Internet education product for senior citizens called The Silver Planet and installed this product in several upstate New York residential centers. Lead product developer and training coordinator, responsible for designing live, print, and electronic training programs. Consulted on Internet technologies with project managers, marketing managers, engineers, and corporate decision makers.

Professional Experience

1993 - 1996 Associate Director, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University. Worked with center director to target grant opportunities, wrote approximately 90 research grants, trained research scientists and graduate students, developed project partnerships within the university, participated in university-wide education programs, presented nationally on commercial applications of computing and networking technologies.

1990 - 1993 Senior Research Scientist Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University. Project leader for developing applications of parallel computing in environmental and financial. Training and building project teams with scientists from NASA, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation centers and laboratories.

1988-1990 Technical Specialist Cornell National Supercomputer Facility, Cornell University. Training and consulting of researchers in vector and parallel processing; Coordinator for outreach and training programs in U.S. and Europe.

1980- 1988 Graduate Student and Research Assistant. State University of New York College of Environment Science & Forestry. Computer modeling for environmental decision making.

1977 - 1980 Cooperative Extension Agent Cornell Cooperative Extension Service. Consulting, training, educational presentations, media development.

Education

Ph.D. 1988. Graduate Program in Environmental Science, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY. Specialization in computer modeling.

Masters Landscape Architecture. 1983. State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY. Specialization in environmental analysis.

B.S. 1975. State University of New York State College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Cornell University.

Biography

Kim Mills is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Technology at SUNY Morrisville. He joined the college in August, 2001.

Prior to joining Morrisville, Kim Mills was President & CEO of WebWisdom.com, Inc. an Internet software company specializing in web collaboration tools. The company is a technology spin-off from the CASE Center at Syracuse University. WebWisdom was on track to generate a million dollars in first year revenue when Silicon Valley partners defaulted on their contracts destabilized the company.

Prior to joining WebWisdom, Kim Mills was founder and CEO of Webtop.Systems.inc, a Syracuse based technology-consulting company specializing in commercial applications of World Wide Web and related information technologies. Webtopsystems developed The Silver Planet, an Internet education and entertainment product for seniors. Mills was the driving force behind The Silver Planet, serving as training and educational coordinator. Mills developed all training materials (print, web-based and electronic), and designed and delivered a full training program. Webtop.systems.inc also consulted with corporate clients to integrate business and technology requirements and develop information systems.

Mills has a background in technology development, technology transfer, and education and training. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Kim Mills worked as a research scientist and associate director at the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, and as a technical specialist at the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility.

His training experience includes teaching university, government laboratory, and industry scientists how to develop parallel supercomputing applications, creating lecture materials and computing exercises for training sessions, and advising high school teachers, graduate/undergraduate students, and high school students on applications of the Internet.

His development experience includes applications of high-performance computing and communications technologies, developing Web based multimedia, information on-demand technologies and applications, and technology transfer to industry. Mills led application development projects using advanced technologies with partners ranging from financial analysts in the stock market, atmospheric scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and K-12 students and teachers in New York State schools.

Some Presentations on Technology and Commerce

Software Pricing Models. Central New York Regional Software Roundtable. November 20, 2000. Syracuse, New York

Your First $150,000 of Financing. Workshop on financing technology-based businesses. Fourth Annual Technology Forum and Enterprise Awards for Technology. May 20, 1997. Syracuse, NY

The Impact on the Enterprise from the World Wide Web. RCI Member Management Symposium XVIII. San Diego, CA. March 20-21, 1996.

Information on Demand Applications and Technologies. Commercial Applications of Parallel Processing CAPPS '94. October 18, 1994. Austin, Texas.

High Performance Computing and Communications Applications and the Role of Heterogeneous Technologies. RCI North American Annual Member Executive Conference. Washington, DC November 2, 1993.

eCommerce: Publications1994. G. Fox, K. Hawick, K. Mills, Hon-Wah Yau. The Electronic InfoMall-HPCN Enabling Industry and Commerce. Europe HPCN '95 (The International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking, 1995.) Milan, Italy. May 3-5, 1995.

1994. G. Fox and K. Mills. Opportunities for HPCC Use in Industry: Opportunities for a New Software Industry. chapter in Parallel Programming: Paradigms and Applications. Chapman and Hall Publishers, London. U.K. A. Zomayae ed.

1994. G. Fox and K. Mills. Information Processing and Opportunities for HPCC Use in Industry. Number 796 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 1-14. Proceedings Europe HPCN '94 (The International Conference on European High Performance Computing and Networking , 1994). Munich, Germany. April 1994.

1993. K. Mills and G. Fox. HPCC Applications Development and Technology Transfer to Industry. in Postproceedings of The New Frontiers A Workshop on Future Directions of Massively Parallel Processing, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA.

1993. K. Mills and G. Fox. InfoMall: An Innovative Strategy for High-Performance Computing and Communications Applications Development. Internet Research Electronic Networking: Research, Applications, and Policy. Vol 4. No. 1, Spring 1994. 31-44. Syracuse Center for Computational Science 530.

1994. E. Liddy, M. Eisenberg, C. McClure, K. Mills, S. Mernit, J. Luckett. Research Agenda for the Digital Library. Proceedings of Digital Libraries '94. The First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. June 19-21, 1994. College Station, Texas. pp. 12-20.

Some Presentations and Publications on Multimedia Applications

The Technological Aspects of the Living Schoolbook. Collaboration for High-Performance Computing and Communication in Schools. April 9, 1996. American Education Research Association 1996 Annual Meeting. New York, NY.

The Living Textbook Project. Mohawk Valley IEEE Dual Use Technologies and Applications Conference. SUNY Utica-Rome. May 25, 1995.

Real-time Interactive Multimedia Applications and Technologies in Education. The New Jersey Educational Computing Conference '95. Montclaire State University. Upper Montclair, NJ. March 13, 1995.

1997. G. Fox and K. Mills. Web Technologies and the Potential for Innovation in Distance Education. International Journal of Modern Physics C, Vol. 8, No.1.

1994. K. Mills, G. Fox, B. Shelly, S. Bossert. The Living Textbook: An Application of Information on Demand in Education. National Educational Computing Conference '95. pp. 64-67. Baltimore, MD. June, 1995. Syracuse Center for Computational Science 647.

Some Presentations and Publications on Network Applications

Distance Education on a Global Information Infrastructure. Canadian National Testbed Network Meeting. January 24, 1996. Toronto.

A Demonstration of Advanced Telecommunications Technology in Education. New York State Legislature, Albany, NY. May 17, 1995.

Information on Demand Technologies and the National Information Infrastructure. Supercomputing Symposium '94. Toronto, Ontario. June 6-8, 1994

1995. P. Coddington, G. Fox, K. Mills, B. Mihalas, M. Podgorny, S. Bossert, B. Shelly. The Living Schoolbook: Interactive Multimedia on Demand for K-12 Education. ACM/IEEE Supercomputing ‘95. Koraba and Brown. eds. p. 8.

1995. K. Mills and B. Shelly. A Collaboration to Apply Advanced Information Technologies in Education. Syracuse Center for Computational Science 742. National Educational Computing Conference '96. Minneapolis, MN. June, 1996.

1995. K. Mills, G. Fox, P. Coddington, B. Mihalas, M. Podgorney, B. Shelly, S. Bossert. The Living Textbook and the K-12 Classroom of the Future. SuperComputing '95. San Diego, CA. December, 1995.

Some Parallel Computing Presentations and Publications

NASA HPCC High-Performance Computing and Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation. NASA HPCC Project Review. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. November 3, 1993.

Parallel Programming Paradigms: Working Group Report. Workshop and Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications Grand Challenge Applications and Software Technology May 4-7, 1993. Pittsburgh, PA.

Financial Modeling Applications at NPAC. The Financial Services Industry: The Emerging Technology of Massively Parallel Processing. Digital Equipment Corporation Application Center for Technology. New York, NY. December 3, 1992.

Parallel Computing and the ARPS Model. First Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing Using the Advanced Regional Prediction System. NSF Science and Technology Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma. August 13-14, 1992.

Environmental Modeling on Parallel Computers. Ecosystem Modeling Workshop. Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. February 17, 1992. University of Miami, Miami, FL.

Stock Option Pricing on the Connection Machine. National Science Foundation Center for Research in Parallel Computation (CRPC) 2nd Annual Research Symposium. August 19-23, 1991. Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Financial Modeling on the Connection Machine. IBM Europe Institute. July 15-19, 1991. Oberlech, Austria.

1993. K. Droegemeier, M. Xue, K. Johnson, M. O'Keefe, A. Sawdey, G. Sabot, S. Wholey, K. Mills, and N.T. Lin. Weather Prediction: A Scalable Storm-Scale Model. Chapter in High Performance Computing, Problem Solving with Parallel and Vector Architectures. G. Sabot, editor. Addison-Wesley Publishers. November, 1993. pp 46-86.

1993. G. Cheng, Y. Lu, G. Fox, K. Mills, T. Haupt. An Interactive Remote Visualization Environment for an Electromagnetic Scattering Simulation on a High Performance Computing System. Supercomputing '93. pp. 317-426.

1993. N. Chrisochordes, K. Droegemeier, G. Fox, and K. Mills. A Methodology for Developing High Performance Computing Models: Storm-Scale Weather Prediction. The Society for Computer Simulation 1993 MultiConference. March 29-April 1. Washington, D.C. Syracuse Center for Computational Science 402.

1993. G. Cheng, K. Mills, and G. Fox. An Interactive Visualization Environment for Financial Modeling on Heterogeneous Computing Systems. The Sixth SIAM Conference in Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. March 22-24. Norfolk, Virginia.

1993. K. Mills, F. Csillag, and M. Kaddoura. GORDIUS: A Data Parallel Algorithm for Spatial Data Conversion. Computers & Geosciences. Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 1051-1063.

1992. K. Droegemeier, M. Xue, K. Johnson, K. Mills, and M. O'Keefe. Experiences with the Scalable-Parallel ARPS Cloud/Mesoscale Prediction Model on Massively Parallel and Clustered-Workstation Architectures. Parallel Supercomputing in Atmospheric Science. Invited paper for the Fifth Workshop on Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology. G.R. Hoffman and T. Kauranne, Eds., World Scientific Publishing, 99-129.

1992. Csillag, F. and K. Mills. Linking Error Properties of Fields and Objects in a Geographic Information System. Pedometrics-92. September 3-6, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

1992. K. Mills, G. Cheng, M. Vinson, S. Ranka, and G. Fox. Software Issues and Performance of a Parallel Model for Stock Option Pricing. Syracuse Center for Computational Science 273b. The Fifth Australian Supercomputing Conference, December 7-9, 1992, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and The University of Melbourne.

1992. K. Mills, M. Vinson, and G. Cheng. A Large Scale Comparison of Option Pricing Models with Historical Market Data. Syracuse Center for Computational Science 260. The Fourth Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, October 19-21, 1992, McClean, Virginia, IEEE Computer Society and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

1991. K. Mills, G. Fox, and R. Heimbach. Implementing an Intervisibility Analysis Model on a Parallel Computing System. Computers & Geosciences. Vol. 18, No. 8, pp. 1047-1054. Pergamon Press Ltd, 1992. Syracuse Center for Computational Science 150b.

1991. K. Mills. Error Analysis in Spatial Models: Intervisibility Pilot Study. Supercomputing '91, February 6-8, 1991. Stuttgart, Germany.

1989. K. Mills. Defining an Index of Representativeness for Samples of Weather Data. Sixth Conference on Applied Climatology. American Meteorological Society. March 7-10, 1989. Charleston, S. Carolina. pp 128-133.

1989. K. Mills. Applying Biometeorological Research to Environmental Design. Sixth Conference on Applied Climatology. American Meteorological Society. March 7-10, 1989. Charleston, S. Carolina. pp 274-275.

Some Student Projects Supervised

Dongmin Kim. Ph.D. Fall 2000. The Design and Evaluation of a Virtual Distributed Computing Environment. Syracuse University School of Engineering.

Fsu-Feng Ko. M.S. Spring 1996. Speech recognition for a video on demand archive. Joint-project with U.S. Air Force Rome Laboratory. Syracuse University School of Information Studies

Monchai Sopitkamo. M.S. Spring 1996. Image database with full text retrieval. Joint project with Onondaga County Public Library and New York State Department of Economic Development. Syracuse University School of Information Studies

Lakshmi Modali. M.S. Spring 1996. Full text retrieval. Joint project with NewsBank Inc. Syracuse University School of Engineering and Computer Science, Mathematics.

Chen-Bin Huang. M.S. Spring 1996. Multimedia development on the World Wide Web. Joint-project with Newton’s Apple. Syracuse University School of Information Studies

Ann Bishop. Ph.D. 1995. The Use of Electronic Networks in Aerospace. Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

Philip Doty. Ph.D. 1995. Syracuse University School of Information Studies. Electronic Networks and the Reward Structure of Academic Science.

Sam Oh. Ph.D. 1995. Database and Knowledge Representation. Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

Weiyang Zhou. Ph.D. 1994. A Digital System for Three Dimensional Surface Reconstruction. SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry.

Keisha Morris. M.S. 1994. A web photo documentary of everyday life of African Americans in south side Syracuse 1880-1980. Joint project with Onondaga County Public Library. Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

Bin Li. Ph.D. 1993. Syracuse University Department of Geography. Parallel Computing and Geographic Information Systems.

Ali Souid. Ph.D. 1993. Reliability Estimation in Modeling Storm Response of Forested Catchments Using Triangulated Irregular Networks on the Connection Machine CM5. SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry.