Michael Doyle, Ph.D, is a senior partner with Eolas Consulting (EC) and an international expert in online interactive computing, informatics and knowledge management. He co-founded EC with Gary Midkiff in 2000 and manages technology and product development and cultivates strategic business partnerships for the firm.

Dr. Doyle also founded sister companies Eolas Technologies, Inc., a think tank for the development of network computing technologies in 1994, and Eolas Development Corp., a high-tech business incubator, where he serves as CEO and chairman, respectively. Prior to establishing these business ventures, he was director of the Center for Knowledge Management/Academic Computer Center at the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF) from 1993 to 1994, and director of the Biomedical Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinios, Chicago, from 1989 to 1993.

Dr. Doyle's seminal research in next-generation Web applications and morpho-spatial genomic activity mapping lead to his patents for the development of fundamental and revolutionary Web browser technologies, including the systems which provide interactive hypermedia image maps, plug-ins and applets. An authority on Internet programming languages, he wrote "Interactive Web Applications with Tcl/Tk," one of the most popular books about this scripting language. He also holds several other U.S. and international patents including one pending for the "Transient-Key Digital Timestamp" system, a process that digitally documents and validates electronic records.

A government expert on high-performance computing, Dr. Doyle continues to serve on the scientific advisory board for the National Museum of Health and Medicine, a post he has maintained for 10 years. He also served on the Technical Advisory Board of the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project from 1991 to 1994 and reviewed grant applications for the National Institutes of Health from 1991 to 1999.

Currently chief scientist on one of the the National Institutes of Health's Next-Generation Internet projects, Dr. Doyle has spearheaded many state and federal research initiatives over the past 15 years. The "Red Sage Project" that he directed in 1993 provided initial Web access to hundreds of online biomedical journals while the UCSF CalREN project gave high-performance online access to biotechnology industry researchers. He also directed a state-funded Illinois project that developed navigational systems for spatial indexing of biomedical image databases in the early 1990s.

Dr. Doyle is an adjunct professor of Computer Science at DePaul University, Chicago, and at the Institute for Informatics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. He received his doctorate degree in cell and structural biology from the University of Illinois, Champaign, in 1991, and his bachelor's degree in Bio-communication Arts from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1983. He belongs to Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Mensa, the Mega Society, the UltraNet, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.