David Lowe is the director of undergraduate programs in the faculty of engineering, and a co-director of the Centre for Object Technology, Applications, and Research (COTAR) at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has active research interests in the areas of Web development and technologies, hypermedia, and software engineering. In particular, Dr. Lowe focuses on Web development processes, Web project specification and scoping, and information contextualization. He has published widely in these areas, including several texts (Lowe and Hall, Hypermedia and the Web: An Engineering Approach [Wiley, 1999] and Wilde and Lowe, Transcluding the Web: Linking and XML [Addison-Wesley, in preparation]).

In the last seven years, Dr. Lowe has published over 40 refereed papers and attracted over $900,000 in funding, including a recent grant for research into Web project specifications. He is on numerous Web conference committees and is the information management theme editor for the Journal of Digital Information. He has undertaken numerous consulting engagements related to software evaluation, Web development (especially project planning and evaluation), and Web technologies.