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Biography: Ira Fuchs

Ira H. Fuchs joined the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2000 as the Vice President for Research in Information Technology. Mr. Fuchs directs the Foundation’s expanding grant-making and investigations of digital technologies that can be applied to teaching and research.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Fuchs was Vice President for Computing and Information Technology at Princeton University for 15 years where he was responsible for the overall management of the University's telecommunications and academic and administrative computing services. He earlier served as Executive Director of the City University of New York’s central computing facility and as CUNY’s Vice-Chancellor for University Services.

In 1981 he founded the BITNET Network, the first and world’s largest academic telecommunications network, and for 20 years served as Chairman of the Board of its successor, the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN).

Mr. Fuchs was a founding board member of the Usenix Association, The Internet Society, and JSTOR, where he also served as Chief Scientist. Mr. Fuchs currently serves on the Boards of Sarah Lawrence College, the Princeton Public Library, the Open Source Applications Foundation, and JSTOR.

In 1999, Mr. Fuchs received the first Technology New Jersey Internet innovator award and in 2000, Mr. Fuchs received Educause’s highest award for “Excellence in Leadership”.