Maxine D. Brown is an associate director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois
at Chicago (UIC), responsible for the funding, documentation, and promotion of its research activities. Brown is a
co-principal investigator of the Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP) initiative to provide a
persistent infrastructure to facilitate the long-term interconnection and interoperability of advanced international
networking. She was one of several US technical advisors to the G7 GIBN activity in 1995, responsible for collecting and
publishing potential international applications in the G7 GIBN document "High-Performance Applications Requesting
High-Speed Broadband Networks" presented at the G7 Paris
meeting in January 1996.
Brown was project manager of the SC'95 Information Architecture/I-WAY/GII Testbed and the SC'98 iGrid(international Grid) and INET 2000 iGrid research demonstrations. Along with Tom DeFanti and Bruce McCormick of Texas A&M University, sheco-edited the landmark National Science Foundation report, "Visualization in Scientific Computing."
Brown has a long history of service to the computer graphics and supercomputing communities, and has been active in both the ACM SIGGRAPH organization and the Supercomputing (SC) conferences. In recognition of her services to the University and the community at large, Brown was a recipient of the 1990 UIC Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) award and the 1998 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award.