Advisory Board

Vice President for Research in Information Technology Andrew Mellon Foundation

Ira Fuchs joined the Foundation in July, 2000, in the newly created position of Vice President for Research in Information Technology. He is responsible for directing the Foundation 's expanding investigations of digital technologies that can be applied to teaching and research. Fuchs is also Senior Technology Advisor to the President of Princeton University. He continues to serve as a Trustee of JSTOR, a rapidly growing digital archive of more than 400 core scholarly journals.

As the Vice President for Computing and Information Technology at Princeton University from 1985 to 2000, Fuchs was responsible for the overall management of the University 's academic and administrative computing services, electronic communications, media, intranet, and printing services. In 1981 he founded the BITNET Network, the first and world 's largest academic telecommunications network, and later served as president of its successor, the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN).

He received his M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Physics at Columbia University.