Ira H. Fuchs is an internationally known authority on innovative technology solutions for higher education and is a co-founder of BITNET, an important precursor of the Internet and JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to archiving and providing access to important scholarly journals.
He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017. Since 2012 he has been President of BITNET, LLC a consulting firm specializing in online learning and other applications of technology in higher education.
Mr. Fuchs was Vice President for Computing and Information Technology at Princeton University from 1985-2000 and Vice President and Program Officer for Research in Information Technology at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 2000-2010. From 2010 until 2012 he was Executive Director of Next Generation Learning Challenges.
He is currently a Director/Trustee of The Philadelphia Contributionship and Ithaka Harbors Inc. He was also a Founding Trustee of JSTOR, USENIX, the Internet Society and a former Trustee of Mills College, Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University Press, the Open Source Applications Foundation, Princeton Public Library, and the Global Education Learning Community.
He lives in Princeton, N.J., with his wife, Karen.