APPENDIX D:
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF STEERING COMMITTEE
AND WORKSHOP
PARTICIPANTS
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
JACK M. WILSON, RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Jack Wilson is the Acting Dean of the Faculty; Dean, Undergraduate
and Continuing Education; Professor of Physics and Professor of
Engineering Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Chairman
of the Board of Interactive Learning International (ILINC). Dr.
Wilson received his A.B. from Thiel College in 1967, and his M.A.
and Ph.D. from Kent State University in 1972. After holding teaching
and research positions at Kent State, Sam Houston State, and the
University of Maryland among others, he has been with Rensselaer
since 1990. Among the many awards he has won, Dr. Wilson received
the Pew Charitable Trusts Leadership Award for Renewal of Undergraduate
Education in 1996. Dr. Wilson has published numerous papers,
the most recent of which is "Re-engineering the Undergraduate
Curriculum," a book chapter for The Learning Revolution to
be published by Anker Publishing Co., 1997.
DENICE D. DENTON, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Denice D. Denton is the Dean of Engineering and a professor in
the department of electrical engineering at the University of
Washington. She received the B.S., M.S. (1982), and Ph. D. (1987)
in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Her current interests include plasma deposition of
polymers and the use of micromachining in solid state actuator
design. Professor Denton was co-director of the National Institute
for Science Education in 1995-1996. She is the recipient of the
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award
(1987-1992), the American Society of Engineering Education AT&T
Foundation Teaching Award (1991), the W.M. Keck Foundation Engineering
Teaching Excellence Award (1994), the American Society of Electrical
Engineers George Westinghouse Award (1995), and the Institute
of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Harriet B. Rigas Teaching
Award (1995). Dr. Denton is the chair of the NRC's Board on Engineering
Education.
JAMES W. SERUM, HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
Jim Serum received a B.A. in chemistry from Hope College and was
awarded a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1969 from the University
of Colorado. His doctorate research was directed toward studies
in mass spectrometry. Following his graduate studies, he taught
and did research at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He spent
a year at Rice University as a Welch Fellow, and then joined the
staff at Cornell University as director of the National Institutes
of Health High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Facility. Dr. Serum
joined the Hewlett-Packard Company in 1973 as applications chemist
for mass spectrometry. Since then he has held a number of management
positions, including technical support manager for mass spectrometry
in Europe (France); marketing manager for mass spectrometry and
spectroscopy at the Scientific Instruments Division; research
and development manager at the same division; and research and
development manager for the Avondale Division (laboratory automation
and chromatography instrumentation). Since 1984 he has held positions
as operations manager for laboratory automation systems and automated
chemical systems, as well as the analytical group research and
development manager. Dr. Serum is currently general manager for
mass spectrometry, infrared, and protein chemical systems. In
addition, he is chairman of Hewlett-Packard's Bioscience Council
and vice chairman of the Hewlett-Packard Corporate Research and
Development Council.
HARVEY B. KEYNES, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Harvey Keynes is a professor of mathematics, past director of
education in the Geometry Center, and director of education programs
for a new Institute of Technology Center. His research interests
are in dynamical systems. Professor Keynes has directed the following
projects: The University of Minnesota Talented Youth Program (state
and private funding); the National Science Foundation Teacher
Renewal Project; the NSF-supported Minnesota Mathematics Mobilization;
the Ford Foundation Urban Mathematics Collaborative; the NSF-supported
Young Scholars Project; the Bush Foundation Project to increase
female participation in the University of Minnesota Talented Youth
Program; the NSF-funded Early Alert Initiative; and a new reformed
calculus program for engineering students. Professor Keynes has
also taught calculus in the University of Minnesota Talented Youth
Program, and has been a teacher in the NSF Teacher Renewal Project.
He has extensive contacts in Minnesota and national mathematics
education and high technology committees. He was a member of
the NRC's Mathematical Sciences Education Board and is the recipient
of the 1992 Award for Distinguished Public Service of the American
Mathematical Society. Professor Keynes has contacts with major
mathematics organizations and projects at the international level
and throughout the United States.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS AND AUTHORS OF COMMISSIONED PAPERS
NABIL R. ADAM, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Nabil Adam is a professor of computers and information systems
and the director of the Center for Information Management, Integration,
and Connectivity (CIMIC) at Rutgers University and member of the
department of computer and information science, New Jersey Institute
of Technology. He received his M.S., M. Phil, and Ph.D. degrees
from Columbia University Dr. Adam has published a number of technical
papers in such journals as Institute of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering (IEEE), Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Communications
of the ACM, among others. He has co-authored/co-edited nine
books including one on database issues in global information systems
(GIS) (Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1997), And as part of the Springer
Verlag Lecture Notes Series in Computer Science, one on electronic
commerce (1996), two on digital libraries (1995, 1996) and one
on advanced databases (1993). Dr. Adam is editor-in-chief of
the International Journal on Digital Libraries and serves on the
editorial board of the Journal of Management Information Systems
and the Journal of Electronic Commerce. He served as a guest editor
for the Communications of the ACM, Operations Research, and Journal
of Management Information Systems. He is the co-founder and current
chair of the IEEE task force on digital libraries. He served as
the general chair of the 1997 "IEEE International Conference
on the Advances in Digital Libraries (IEEE ADL'97)", the
program chair of the 1996 "Forum on Research and Technology
Advances in Digital Libraries", the previous year as program
co-chair, and the program chair of the 1994 "International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management." He
has also served on the program committee of several international
conferences. Dr. Adam has lectured on digital libraries and other
related topics at several institutions, including the department
of computer science, State University of New York at Buffalo (April
1997); The International Conference on the Digital Libraries and
Information Services for the 21st Century (KOLISS DL'96), in Seoul,
Korea, (September 1996); the Development and Practice of Law in
the Age of the Internet, Washington College of Law Centennial
Week Symposium (April 1996); and the 2nd International Workshop
on Next Generation Info. Technologies and Systems, the Technion
and Neaman Institute, Israel (June 1995). His research work has
been supported by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the NASA
Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS),
and Bellcore. He also serves as a consultant to several organizations,
including Bellcore, and Center for Excellence in Space Data and
Information Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is
a member of the New York Academy of Science and listed in Who's
Who in America in Science and Engineering.
PRUDENCE ADLER, ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES
Prudence Adler is the assistant executive director of the Association
of Research Libraries (ARL). Her responsibilities include federal
relations with a focus on information policies, intellectual property
rights, telecommunications, issues relating to access to government
information, and project management for the ARL GIS Literacy Project.
Prior to joining ARL in 1989, Ms. Adler was assistant project
director, Communications and Information Technologies Program,
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where she worked
on studies relating to government information, networking and
supercomputer issues, and information technologies and education.
Ms. Adler has an M.S. in library science and M.A. in American
history from the Catholic University of America and a B.A. in
history from George Washington University. She has participated
in several advisory councils including the Depository Library
Council, the Board of Directors of the National Center for Geographic
Information and Analysis, and the Alexandria Digital Library Design
Review.
TRYG AGER, IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER
Tryg Ager is the lead of Digital Library Pilots and Prototypes
projects at Almaden Research Center. Recent projects include
university journal libraries, integration of automated library
systems with digital library, countrywide digital library systems,
and digital libraries for training and analysis for the Department
of Defense. Prior to joining IBM in 1994, Tryg was a consultant
for the Institute for Defense Analysis and helped plan and implement
worldwide multimedia networking for the Department of Defense
Dependents Schools. From 1978 to 1994 Tryg was a senior research
scientist at the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social
Sciences at Stanford University, working on many projects to create,
test, and disseminate programs for computer-based instruction
in logic and mathematics.
WILLIAM ARMS, CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVES
Bill Arms has been a member of the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI) since 1995. He leads CNRI's program of research
and development in digital libraries. This includes publication
of D-Lib Magazine; technology development, including a handle
system for identifying Internet resources, and repository and
registry systems; and implementation projects with the U.S. Copyright
Office, the Library of Congress, the Defense Technical Information
Center, the Association of American Publishers, the United States
Information Agency, and others. Previously, Dr. Arms was vice
president for computing at Carnegie Mellon University, and has
held faculty positions at Sussex University, the Open University,
and Dartmouth College. He has been a member of numerous boards
and committees in the field of networking, digital libraries,
including chairman of the Educom board, a founder of the Coalition
for Networked Information, and is currently vice chairman of the
Association of Computing Machinery publications board. Dr. Arms
has degrees in mathematics and operational research from Oxford
University, the London School of Economics, and Sussex University.
TORA BIKSON, RAND CORPORATION
Tora Bikson is a senior scientist in RAND Corporation's Behavioral
Sciences Department. She received B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (1969)
degrees in philosophy from the University of Missouri at Columbia
and M.A. and Ph.D. (1974) degrees in psychology from the University
of California at Los Angeles. Since 1980, Dr. Bikson's research
has investigated properties of advanced information technologies
in varied user contexts, addressing such issues as what factors
affect the successful incorporation of innovative tools into ongoing
activities; how these new work media influence group structures
and interaction processes; what impact they have on task and social
outcomes as well as user satisfaction; and what individuals and
organizations need to know to use them effectively. She has pursued
these questions as principal investigator for projects funded
by NSF, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the John and
Mary R. Markle Foundation. Her work emphasizes field research
design, intensive case studies, and large-scale cross-sectional
studies addressed to the use of computer-based tools in organizational
settings. Dr. Bikson is a member of Data for Development (a United
Nation's Secretariat providing scientific guidance on the use
of information systems in developing companies) and a technical
consultant to the U.N. Advisory Commission on the Coordination
of Information Systems. She is a frequent reviewer for professional
papers and has authored a number of journal articles, book chapters,
and research reports on the implementation of new interactive
media. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Association for Computing Machinery, American Psychological Association
(fellow), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility,
and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Dr. Bikson recently served on the NRC's Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board committee on information technology and
the service society.
*HAROLD BILLINGS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Harold Billings is director of General Libraries, The University
of Texas at Austin, a position he has held since 1977. Prior
to that appointment he held other administrative positions at
UT Austin in the areas of general administration, collection development
and technical services. He holds a B.A. degree from Pan American
College (now UT Pan American) and the M.L.S. from UT Austin.
He was the founding chairman of the Research Libraries Advisory
Committee to OCLC (RLAC) and has served on the boards of the Association
of Research Libraries, the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, and the
Center for Research Libraries, and has participated in numerous
other groups concerned with resource sharing, networking, and
preservation. He is the author or editor of works dealing with
contemporary literature and bibliography, as well as articles
about library cooperation and the electronic information revolution.
CHRISTINE L. BORGMAN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Christine Borgman holds the Presidential Chair in Information
Studies at UCLA. She is a professor of library and information
science, and was department chair from 1995 to 1997. She also
teaches in the Communication Studies Program at UCLA and is a
visiting professor in the Department of Information and Library
Studies at Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire,
England (1996-1999). Her teaching and research interests include
digital libraries, human-computer interaction, information seeking
behavior, and scholarly communication and bibliometrics, as well
as information technology policy in Central and Eastern Europe.
Since 1990 she has lectured or conducted research in Australia,
Austria, Britain, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland,
Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden,
and the Ukraine, and has been a Fulbright Visiting Professor at
the University of Economic Sciences and at Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest, Hungary, and a scholar-in-residence at
the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio,
Italy. Her educational background includes a B.A. in mathematics
from Michigan State University, an M.L.S. from the University
of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in communication from Stanford University.
Prior to her research career, she was a systems analyst, developing
automated systems for libraries and information retrieval systems
for industry. Professor Borgman has published more than 130 articles,
conference papers, reports, and books in the fields of information
studies, computer science, and communication. Her books include
Effective On line Searching: A Basic Text (Marcel Dekker, 1984),
Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics (Sage, 1990), and From
Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure (MIT Press,
forthcoming). She is an elected fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and a member of the board of directors
of the Council on Library and Information Resources, the advisory
board to the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute Regional
Library Program, the advisory board to the Electronic Privacy
Information Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery
Public Policy Committee. She currently serves on the editorial
boards of Communication Research, Journal of the American Society
for Information Science, Journal of Documentation, Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, Computer Supported Cooperative
Work, The Information Society, and the Journal of Digital Information.
ANNE M. BUCK, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Anne Buck is the Caltech University Librarian. Before coming to
Pasadena she was university librarian at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology. She was a group supervisor in the Bell Labs Library
Network until the breakup of AT&T when she joined Bell Communications
Research to build and direct the Bellcore Library Network. She
has also been a public library director, consultant, and trustee.
Dr. Buck taught library management at Rutgers University and the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and recently contributed chapters
to Professional Writing and The Complete Chemical Engineer; A
Student Guide to Critical Thinking. Dr. Buck is vice-president
of the Engineering Information Foundation, a director of Engineering
Information, Incorporated and a member of the Highsmith Press
Editorial Advisory Board. She has served as treasurer of the American
Society for Information Science and is listed in Who's Who in
America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in American Education
and Who's Who in the West.
JAMES CALLAN, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Jamie Callan is a research assistant professor in the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, Computer Science Department. He is
also the assistant director of the UMass Center for Intelligent
Information Retrieval (CIIR). He is responsible for obtaining
grants, directing graduate student research, advising students
and serving on thesis committees, publishing, and teaching. He
also helps manage the CIIR's full-time software engineering staff,
and its highly successful technology transfer program. Dr. Callan
has published papers on a variety of topics in information retrieval,
machine learning, and case-based reasoning; he serves on the program
committee of the Special Interest Group Information Retrieval
(SIGIR) and Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC); and he is the program
chair of the 1997 SIGIR workshop on Networked Information Retrieval.
He has recently worked on the problem of applying digital library
techniques to improve K-12 education. Prior to his academic career,
Dr. Callan worked at Digital Equipment Corporation for seven years.
He holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
MARY M. CASE, ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES
Mary Case is director of the Office of Scholarly Communication
of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The Office of
Scholarly Communication undertakes activities to understand and
influence the forces affecting the production, dissemination,
and use of scholarly and scientific information. The office seeks
to promote innovative, creative, and alternative ways of sharing
scholarly findings, particularly through championing evolving
electronic techniques for recording and disseminating academic
and research scholarship. Before coming to ARL in June 1996,
Ms. Case was director of program review in the Office of the Vice
President for Administration and Planning at Northwestern University.
Prior to that, she was head of Serials and Acquisitions Services
at the Northwestern University Library.
SU-SHING CHEN, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
Su-Shing Chen received his PhD from the University of Maryland
in 1970, and was with the University of Florida until 1985. He
then joined the University of North Carolina-Charlotte where he
served as the chairman of computer science from 1986-89. Dr.
Chen became a professor and chair of computer engineering and
computer science of the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1996.
He has been a visiting professor at Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology (1996), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
(1990), University of Bonn/Germany (1980), IMPA/Brazil (1980),
University of Maryland (1979), and Georgia Tech (1978). He has
also been a visiting scientist at IBM Thomas Watson Research Center
(1982), IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center (1986), Boeing High Tech
Center (1988), and other IBM divisions (1981). He also has served
as program director of various research programs at National Science
Foundation, such as the program director of geometric analysis
(1983-84), program director of intelligent systems (1994-95),
program director of knowledge models and cognitive systems (1994-95).
From May 1994-August 1995, he was the program director of information
technology and organizations. During that period, he was responsible
for the establishment of the NSF/ARPA/NASA Research on Digital
Libraries Initiative, and was the program director of the initiative.
JAMES DAVIS, PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER/XEROX
Jim Davis of Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center has been working
on digital libraries since 1992. He is the original architect
of a distributed digital library for computer science technical
reports (NCSTRL) which is now in use at 92 institutions worldwide.
This same technology is being considered as the basis for an Association
for Computing Machinery electronic papers repository for computer
science. He also designed CoNote, which provides small groups
shared annotation of Web documents, and is now used routinely
in CS instruction at Cornell. Dr. Davis received a B.S. and Ph.D.
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His graduate
work at the Media Lab was in spoken language interaction and computer
music.
ELIZABETH DUPUIS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Beth Dupuis is head of the Digital Information Literacy Office,
within the Undergraduate Library of the General Libraries, at
The University of Texas at Austin. One of her primary responsibilities
is to work with faculty, librarians, and students to determine
core skills and competencies related to searching, evaluating,
saving, manipulating, and organizing information. In her classes,
she has taught thousands of undergraduate and graduate students
to learn to effectively use core information resources and systems
with an emphasis on digital formats and basic skills. Previously
she managed the Balcones Library Service Center, a remote library
for science and technology-related agencies of approximately 1500
researchers affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin.
Ms. Dupuis has published numerous articles and offered conference
presentations about digital information and instructional technologies.
On campus, she serves on the Multimedia Instruction Committee
and the Team Web Planning and Training Group. Currently she is
the web administrator and listserv moderator for the Association
of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section and
will soon begin her responsibilities as associate editor for columns
of Public-Access Computer Systems Review (PACS-R), an electronic
journal about end-user computer systems in libraries. Ms. Dupuis
received a B.A. in English and a Master's in library and information
science (MLIS) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
she holds an Endorsement of Specialization in Special Libraries
and Resources from the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science at The University of Texas at Austin.
*STEPHEN C. EHRMANN, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Stephen Ehrmann serves as director of the Flashlight Project at
the American Association for Higher Education. Flashlight develops
and applies evaluation tools to issues arising from the uses of
technology in education. Dr. Ehrmann also is part of the technology
projects group that supports the national Teaching, Learning and
Technology Roundtable program. His wide ranging experience also
includes work on distance education, the economics of courseware,
and strategies for employing technology in curricular reform.
For eleven years (1985-96) Dr. Ehrmann was senior program officer
for interactive technologies with the Annenberg/CPB Projects at
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, DC. From
1991-94, Dr. Ehrmann also served as senior program officer with
the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project, an initiative dedicated
to improving the teaching of math and science in the public schools.
From 1978-85, he was a program officer with the Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Prior to that, he served as
director of educational research and assistance at The Evergreen
State College in Olympia, Washington. His Ph.D. is in management
and higher education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where he also received bachelor's degrees in aerospace engineering
and in urban planning.
EDWARD A. FOX, VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Ed Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from Cornell
University, and a B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University (VA Tech or VPI&SU), where he serves as associate
director for research at the computing center, and professor of
computer science. He directs the Information Access Lab, the Digital
Library Research Lab, "Interactive Learning with a Digital
Library in Computer Science," "Improving Graduate Education
with a National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations,"
and a number of other research and development projects. In addition
to his courses at Virginia Tech, Dr. Fox has taught more than
25 tutorials in nine countries. For the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM), he served in 1988-91 as a member of the publications
board and as editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products (responsible
for the broad area of electronic publishing including online,
CD-ROM, hypertext, interactive multimedia, and developing an electronic
library). He also served from 1987-95 as vice chair and then chair
of the special interest group on information retrieval, and from
1992-94 as founder and chairman of the steering committee for
the ACM Multimedia series of conferences. He serves as chair of
the steering committee for the ACM Digital Libraries series of
conferences, was program chair for ACM DL'96, and is a member
of the editorial board for ACM/Springer Journal on Multimedia
Systems. He was project director for the Virginia Disc series
of CD-ROMs as well as for VPI&SU work on interactive digital
video. He is editor for Morgan Kaufmann Publishers book series
on Multimedia Information and Systems. He also serves on the editorial
boards of CD-ROM Professional, Electronic Publishing (Origination,
Dissemination and Design), Information Processing and Management,
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Journal of Universal
Computer Science, and Multimedia Tools and Applications. He has
authored or co-authored numerous publications in the areas of
digital libraries, information storage and retrieval, hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia,
computational linguistics, CD-ROM and optical disc technology,
electronic publishing, and expert systems.
GORDON FREEDMAN, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, MONTEREY BAY
Gordon Freedman serves as director for business development at
California State University, Monterey Bay, in the university's
Center for Science, Technology, and Information Resources. At
this new university, funded in part by base conversion funding
and devoted to distributed education, Mr. Freedman develops businesses
and strategies that bring together knowledge management, learning
systems, and appropriate technologies. The university focuses
on key relationships in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles to create
21st century learning and knowledge businesses. At a demonstration
level, Mr. Freedman designs, develops, and produces interactive,
distributed, and media-rich products that fit into the university's
strategic mission. Mr. Freedman is the overall designer and producer
of the National Science Foundation-funded Virtual Canyon project,
which utilizes the deep sea content and methods of the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute for a K-12 learning system prototype.
He developed and supervises hyper design technologies (hdt.net),
a university-affiliated private business that develops technology
and media-driven knowledge and learning systems. Mr. Freedman
coordinates the development of online learning tools with the
university and Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) and is the operator
at Cal State, Monterey Bay of SGI's Authorized Training Partner
program. He is part of a start-up university-affiliated business
which will be a value-added supplier of distance learning utilities.
Mr. Freedman has a background in government, news media, entertainment,
software development and publishing. He spent five years on Capitol
Hill as a researcher and investigator, including service on the
Senate Watergate Committee. Mr. Freedman was a producer for ABC
News, 20/20, and Nightline in Washington, D.C., a producer of
television drama and feature films in Los Angeles, including the
documentary adaptation of Stephen Hawkings best selling book,
A Brief History of Time, and a developer of CD-ROMs. Before coming
to the business development post at Cal State, Monterey Bay, he
served as a founding vice president of electronic media at Knowledge
Exchange, a multiple media publishing company in business, finance,
and economics funded by Michael Milken. Mr. Freedman has co-authored
two books and packaged two books. He attended Michigan State
University where he studied communication theory.
RICHARD FURUTA, TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY
Richard Furuta is an associate professor at Texas A&M University
in the department of computer science, director of the Hypermedia
Research Laboratory, and associate director of the Center for
the Study of Digital Libraries. Dr. Furuta's current areas of
research include hypermedia systems and models, structured documents
and electronic publishing, document structure recognition from
bitmapped sources, management systems for three-dimensional-gesture-based
user interfaces, and digital libraries. He also has studied applications
in computer supported cooperative work, software engineering,
and visual programming. He is U.S. editor of the journal Electronic
Publishing: Origination, Dissemination, and Design (EP-odd), published
by John Wiley, and has just completed a term as chair of the ACM
Special Interest Group on Hypertext (SIGLINK). He was the conference
chair for Digital Libraries '94, the first conference in a new
series and the program chair for the next in the series, Digital
Libraries '95. Dr. Furuta received the B.A. degree from Reed
College in 1974, the M.S. degree in computer science from the
University of Oregon in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree in computer
science from the University of Washington in 1986.
MARGARET GJERTSEN, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Peg Gjertsen is associate director of the Physics Courseware Evaluation
Project. Her duties include maintaining all software, computers,
and the website, managing the Novell network both for administrative
tasks and teaching functions, training staff on computers, researching
new software developments for possible inclusion in her work group
and in teaching, maintaining a database of all known physics courseware
concerned with teaching physics, and managing the publication
of the newsletter. She has been involved in this work since 1984.
She is a past editor of the review column for Computers in Physics
and continues to write the biennial directory of physics courseware
for this journal. Mrs. Gjertsen is associate editor of Physics
Academic Software. Her responsibilities include helping establish
and maintaining editorial standards and insuring the quality of
the published software and the associated user's manual. Mrs.
Gjertsen is associate director of The Academic Software Library,
a manufacturing and distribution project for faculty written software.
She is responsible for the software and hardware concerns, the
day to day running of the office, the production and distribution
of the software, and the financial reports at the end of each
month. Mrs. Gjertsen received her BS and MS in chemistry from
Carnegie Mellon University in 1967 and 1968, and has studied at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
PETER S. GRAHAM, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Peter Graham is associate university librarian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Since 1987, he has been in charge of acquisitions, cataloging, and networked information services. For three years he was also associate vice president for information services, with responsibility for the university's academic and administrative computing and networking. He is a member of the governing bodies of the American Library Association, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Mr. Graham is a working group leader within the Coalition for Networked Information and has spoken there several times. He is an advisor to the Research Libraries Group (RLG) on matters of digital libraries and preservation. He has published widely on issues of scholarly preservation, digital library requirements, and the necessary changes within research libraries. Mr. Graham has submitted a proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a series of Digital Preservation Archiving Workshops with the aim of getting major players (National Science Foundation projects, Research Library Group, National Digital Libraries Federation, National Archives Information Server, Library of Congress, etc.) together to reach consensus on next steps to be taken in digital archiving. A planning grant has already been offered from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
TIMOTHY INGOLDSBY, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS
Tim Ingoldsby is the director of product development for the American Institute of Physics. This position includes responsibility for the development of AIP online journals and AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service, a digital library platform for many publishers of research journals. He was responsible for AIP's pioneering online journal, Applied Physics Letters Online, which became, in January of 1995, the first online full text searchable hyperlinked journal in physics. Prior to assuming his current position in 1993, Mr. Ingoldsby served as AIP's first director of information technology, responsible for upgrading the institute's computing and communications infrastructure. He also led the technology task force that developed the advanced networking and communications capabilities installed into the newly constructed American Center for Physics. Before joining AIP in 1988, Mr. Ingoldsby worked for Grumman Data Systems, Wang Laboratories, and was associate executive officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers (1979-83). He began his career as a classroom teacher of physics and digital electronics.
VICKI JOHNSON, INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Vicki Johnson is the president of Interconnect Technologies Corporation. Interconnect Technologies is a Silicon Valley firm specializing in research and development and application of digital library technologies. Ms. Johnson has led technical teams at AT&T Bell Labs and Stanford University, and was product manager for an international commercial online service. At Interconnect she works closely with clients to set strategic directions and lead implementation teams. She holds an M.B.A. in finance from New York University and an M.S. in computer engineering from Stanford University.
*JOHN JUNGCK, BELOIT COLLEGE
John Jungck is the Mead Chair of the Sciences at Beloit College and has been involved in biology education reforms for thirty years. Professor Jungck served as president of the Association of Midwestern College Biology Teachers, is the editor of Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teachers, and has been on the editorial boards of both the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology and BioSystems. He has participated in projects for the Pre-Service Preparation of College Biology Teachers and for the development of investigative laboratory exercises with the Commission for Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences (CUBS). His awards include: an NSTA-Ohaus Award for Innovations in College Science Teaching, a FIPSE Mina Shaughnessy Scholar Award for developing new approaches to learning from practice," and a year-long Fulbright Scholar Award as a visiting professor to Thailand (with extensions to Sri Lanka and Egypt). In 1986, with Nils Peterson, he started the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium and became editor of the BioQUEST Library. Dr. Jungck maintains an active research program in mathematical molecular evolution, and the history, philosophy, and social studies of biology. For the past several years he has served on the executive committee of CELS (the Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences) and several national panels devoted to examining college science education. Dr. Jungck received a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. from the University of Miami.
JAMES KELLER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
James Keller is the associate director and a research associate at the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project. His research interests include the commercialization of the Internet and the federal role in information infrastructure development. His publications include Converging Infrastructures: Intelligent Transportation Systems and the NII; MIT Press, 1996 (co-editor with Lewis Branscomb), Public Access to the Internet, MIT Press, 1995 (co-editor with Brian Kahin), Coordinating the Internet, MIT Press, 1997 (co-editor with Brian Kahin), and Investing in Innovation (co-editor with Lewis Branscomb). Prior to joining the Information Infrastructure Project, Mr. Keller was a product planner and member of the Strategic Planning Group at Sprint Data Group, specializing in the evaluation of emerging communications technologies as they related to new business opportunities. Prior to this, Mr. Keller was a member of the Strategic Planning Group at INTELSAT. INTELSAT owns and operates the international satellite communications system. Mr. Keller graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts, and holds a Masters in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Organization and Management.
DEBORAH KNOX, THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
Deborah Knox is an associate professor of computer science at The College of New Jersey. She is an advocate of the use of hands-on laboratories in support of the CS curriculum and has led two Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education working groups on laboratories for computing courses. She developed the Special Interest Group Computer Science Education Computing Laboratory Repository, a web-based resource center for laboratory materials (http://www.tcnj.edu/~compsci/), and serves as the editor of the site. Dr. Knox received a B.S. in medical technology from Moravian College in 1979, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Iowa State University in 1987.
ROBERTA LAMB, CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY
Roberta Lamb has recently joined the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University as an assistant professor of management information and decision systems. Previously she managed the development of application technologies and tools for Platinum Software Corporation, a financial software systems integrator, while completing her Ph.D. degree. Dr. Lamb has written about the organizational use of online information resources, and is particularly interested in the use of digital libraries and scholarly communication systems by the corporate sector. She has participated in digital library workshops and planning forums in the United States and Canada. Dr. Lamb received a B.S. in 1987 and an M.S. in 1989 in computer science and engineering from California State University, Fullerton. She received an M.S. in 1994 and her Ph.D. degree in 1997 in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine.
MICHAEL LESK, BELLCORE
Michael Lesk is a chief research scientist at Bellcore, and was previously head of the Computer Science Research Department there. He is also visiting professor of computer science at University College London, and is the author of Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Byte and Bucks, published by Morgan Kaufmann in July 1997. However, he is probably best known as the author of Unix utilities such as tbl, lex and uucp. He has BA and PhD degrees from Harvard University (1961 and 1969, respectively).
ROBERT L. LICHTER, CAMILLE AND HENRY DREYFUS FOUNDATION
Robert Lichter is executive director of the New York City-based Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., the only nationally operating private foundation that exclusively supports the chemical sciences. Since 1946, through its special grant program in the chemical sciences, the Dreyfus Foundation has provided over $30 million for support of chemistry education. Previously, Dr. Lichter was vice provost for research and graduate studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a regional director of grants at Research Corporation, and professor of chemistry at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he also served as department chair. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Lichter serves on two American Chemical Society committees, is a member and former chair of the board of governors of the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, and has chaired the committee on science education of the New York Academy of Sciences. He received an A.B. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1962 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967. He did postdoctoral work at the Technische Hochscule Braunschweig, Germany, and the California Institute of Technology.
RICHARD E. LUCIER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Richard Lucier is assistant vice chancellor for Academic Information Management, director of the Center for Knowledge Management, and university librarian at the University of California, San Francisco. His responsibilities include: the management of academic information resources including academic and instructional computing; the university library; and campus-wide policy and planning coordination for information technology in support of education, research, and clinical care. In mid-1995, Mr. Lucier was appointed to lead a University of California planning effort for a digital library which would serve all nine UC campuses. In September 1996, Mr. Lucier began an 18-month, 80% appointment as special assistant for library planning at the UC Office of the President, providing leadership for a university-wide library planning and action initiative whose goals are to: identify organizational, budgetary, and functional changes required to ensure the continued scholarly and economic vitality of UC's libraries; guide library evolution over the next decade; and ensure that immediate actions are taken in support of such changes and evolution. Mr. Lucier holds a B.M. in music and philosophy from the Catholic University of America and an M.L.S. in library science from Rutgers University. He has done extensive graduate work in health policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Lucier was the co-founder and director of the Laboratory for Applied Research in Academic Information at The Johns Hopkins University from 1986-1991, and spearheaded the development of the genome data base and the online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, both in support of the international Human Genome Initiative. The co-originator of the Knowledge Management Model, he has special interests in scientific and scholarly communication, the development and management of scientific databases, digital publishing, and digital libraries, and he has published and lectured widely on these topics.
CLIFFORD LYNCH, COALITION FOR NETWORKED INFORMATION
Clifford Lynch recently became executive director for the Coalition for Networked Information, a joint project of the Association for Research Libraries, CAUSE and Educom focused on the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Dr. Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation, where he was responsible for public access systems serving the nine campuses and the intercampus TCP/IP network. Lynch, who holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the AAAS. He is also an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems.
MIRIAM MASULLO, IBM THOMAS J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER
Miriam Masullo is a research staff member in the Systems Laboratory at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, the IBM Yorktown Heights Research Laboratory. She came to this position 15 years ago, with a long held personal interest in education and 16 years of experience in both systems analysis and network engineering from the telecommunications industry. Dr. Masullo received a B.A. degree in architecture and English literature from The City College of New York, an M.S. in computer science from the City College of New York, an M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in computer science for her interdisciplinary work with the departments of computer science and educational psychology from The City University of New York. Her most recent research has focused in the area of building digital libraries and infrastructure for education. She has contributed numerous papers and seminars to further the understanding of that topic on a worldwide basis.
FRANCIS MIKSA, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Fran Miksa is professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at The University of Texas at Austin. His specialty areas are 1) the classification of knowledge and (2) systems of control for information-bearing entities. He participated in the first Digital Library Conference in 1994 sponsored by Texas A&M University where with his colleague, Philip Doty, he presented a paper entitled "Intellectual Realities and the Digital Library." He was local arrangements chair for the second such conference in 1995 in Austin. More recently he has published The Cultural Legacy of the 'Modern Library' for the Future, JELlS 37 (1996): 100-19 and The DDC, the Universe of Knowledge, and the Post-Modern Library (in press, expected summer 1997) on the Dewey Decimal Classification system and the rise of library classification theory in the 20th century. He presented "The Influence of Mathematics on the Classificatory Thought of S. R. Ranganathan" at the recently held 6th International Study Conference on Classification Research (London, 16-18 June 1997). Dr. Miksa earned both Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He was on the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University from 1972 to 1984 and has been at The University of Texas since 1984.
*JOAN MITCHELL, ON LINE COMPUTER LIBRARY CENTER / FOREST PRESS
Joan Mitchell is the editor in chief of the Dewey Decimal System at the On line Computer Library Center.
BRANDON MURAMATSU, NATIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION DELIVERY SYSTEM
Brandon Muramatsu is the project manager for the National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS) with the Synthesis Coalition, an NSF-funded engineering education coalition. Mr. Muramatsu is responsible for building a World Wide Web accessible database of engineering education courseware (http://www.needs.org). NEEDS locates, catalogs, and stores engineering and engineering-related courseware nationwide. To ensure quality content in NEEDS, he is responsible for developing a two-tiered evaluation system for engineering education courseware. At the base level is a peer review of courseware based on the journal-model. The highest level is a national award competition, the Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education courseware. He has experience developing, using, and evaluating engineering education courseware. As a lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley he has taught courses in the development of multimedia case studies. Mr. Muramatsu received an M.S. and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
JEANNE L. NARUM, INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OFFICE
Jeanne Narum is the director of the Independent Colleges Office (ICO) and the director of Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL), both based in Washington, D.C. The ICO serves as the Washington representative for the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and a select group of liberal arts colleges across the country, assisting in their relations with federal agencies and programs. Narum, with over 20 years experience with faculty, curricular, and institutional development projects, came to the ICO in 1988 from administrative positions at Augsburg College (VP for college relations), Dickinson College (director of development), and St. Olaf College (director of government and foundation relations). In 1989, she became the founding Director of PKAL, and has continued to have responsibility for developing and coordinating the various facets of PKAL, including the Faculty for the 21st Century Network, the seminars and publications on facilities planning, and the workshops and events on disciplinary, topical, and institutional issues. Narum was publisher for PKAL Volume I, What Works, and editor-in-chief for Volumes II, Resources for Reform and Volume III, Structures for Science. She is a member of the boards of trustees at Lenoir-Rhyne College, the alumni board at St. Olaf College, the steering committee for the Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences, and a councilor in the Council for Undergraduate Research. She has spoken and written widely on the work of transforming the learning environment for undergraduate students in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology.
SHAMKANT NAVATHE, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Shamkant Navathe is a professor at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He is well-known for his work on database modeling, database conversion, database design ,distributed database allocation, and database integration. He has worked with IBM and Siemens in their research divisions and has been a consultant to various companies. He was the general co-chairman of the 1996 International VLDB (Very Large Data Base) conference in Bombay, India. He is an associate editor of Association for Computing Machinery's Computing Surveys, and Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is also on the editorial boards of Information Systems (Pergamon Press) and Distributed and Parallel Databases (Kluwer Academic Publishers). He is an author of the book Fundamentals of Database Systems with R. Elmasri (Addison Wesley, Edition 2, 1994), which is currently the leading database textbook worldwide. His current research interests include object-oriented and multimedia databases, intelligent information retrieval, and mobile disconnected databases. Navathe holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has over 100 refereed publications.
LORRAINE NORMORE, CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE
Lorraine Normore is a senior associate research scientist at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) where she has been employed since 1983. Her research has focused on exploring ways to determine and better serve the information needs of end user scientists and engineers. She was deeply involved in both the research and product specification phases for SciFinder, CAS's award-winning end user interface. She acted as the CAS liaison for the Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment (CORE), one of the pioneer electronic library projects. Dr. Normore is an active member of both the Association for Computing Machines' Special Interest Group in Human-Computer Interaction (local and national) and of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Societies' Computer Systems Technical Group, having served in various capacities. She is also a member of Ada Semantic Interface Specification and the American Psychological Association. She received her B.A. (Hons.) degree from McGill University in 1967, her M.L.S. from the University of Toronto in 1975, and her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the Ohio State University in 1986.
JAN OLSEN, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Jan Olsen has been an administrator in research libraries within institutions of higher education for the last twenty years. She has represented abroad the United States government and institutions of higher education and carried out consultancies in Brazil, Peru, the Philippines, Spain, and Africa. Dr. Olsen is the director of the Albert R. Mann Library, a major science library at Cornell University. In 1993 the Mann Library won the ALA/Meckler Library of the Future Award. This reflected the successful creation of a working digital research library. Dr. Olsen has conducted a number of research projects exploring the application of electronic technology to the use and storage of scholarly information. As a librarian, she is concerned that scholars and scholarship will be effectively served by the emerging digital library. One of her most recent publications is a book published by the Meckler Press on electronic journal literature and its implications for scholars. Dr. Olsen completed an M. L. S. degree in library science at the University of Wisconsin, a M.Ed. and a Ph.D in administration in higher education at Cornell University.
ROBERT M. PANOFF, THE SHODOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Robert Panoff is founder and executive director of The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., a non-profit education and research corporation dedicated to reform and improvement of mathematics and science education by appropriate incorporation of computational and communication technologies. Shodor is a partner with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the new National Computational Science Alliance. As principal investigator on several National Science Foundation grants that seek to explore the interaction of high performance computing technologies and education, he worked to develop a series of interactive simulations that combine supercomputing resources and desktop computers. Besides developing and teaching a new courses in information technologies, Dr. Panoff continues an active research program in computational condensed matter physics while defining and implementing educational initiatives at the Shodor Foundation. His research specialties are stochastic optimization, quantum simulations of strongly-correlated systems, and computational science education. At Kansas State University and Clemson University from 1986-1990, he developed a fully interdisciplinary computational science and engineering course. He served as director of the Carolinas Institute in Computational Science, an NSF-funded initiative in Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement, 1991-1993. His work has won several major science and education awards, including the 1990 Cray Gigaflop Performance Award in Supercomputing, the 1994 and 1995 Undergraduate Computational Science Education Awards from the U.S. Department of Energy, and a 1995 Achievement Award from the Chicago Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. In 1993-1994, his interactive simulations were used as the basis of an international science collaboration demonstrating network technologies involving four of the schools from the Department of Defense Dependent Schools, for which he received a letter of commendation from the Department of Defense. In recognition of Dr. Panoff's efforts in undergraduate faculty enhancement and curriculum development, the Shodor Foundation was named in 1996 as a foundation partner of the National Science Foundation for the revitalization of undergraduate education. Dr. Panoff has been a consultant at several national laboratories and is a frequent presenter at NSF-sponsored workshops on visualization, supercomputing, and networking. He has served on the advisory panel for Applications of Advanced Technology program at NSF. Dr. Panoff received his B.S. in physics from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Washington University in St. Louis, undertaking both pre- and postdoctoral work at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
GILDA PAUL, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Gilda Paul is the associate director of the Pew Science Program in Undergraduate Education at Princeton University. The Pew Science Program is committed to the idea that collaborative efforts among faculty should be at the heart of projects to improve undergraduate science and mathematics education. The Pew Science Program has focused particularly on collaborations across institutional boundaries among faculty from liberal arts colleges and research universities. Pew Science Program funding has focused primarily on projects that have the potential to generate substantial improvement in undergraduate science education but that would be difficult, or even impossible, for a single institution to undertake alone. Dr. Paul received a B.A. in psychology from Barnard College in 1975, an M.A. from Columbia University in psychology in 1977, and her Ph.D. degree in developmental psychology from Temple University in 1987.
BARBARA POLANSKY, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Barbara Polansky is administrator of copyright and special projects for the American Chemical Society's publications division. As an active member of various organizations that deal with copyright issues, she is chair of the electronic information committee and member of the rights and permissions licensing network committee for the Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division, co-founder and past chair of the Copyright Round Table (Washington, DC), and is a member of the copyright committee of International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). Ms. Polansky was executive director of the American Copyright Council from 1985-1986. She is a lecturer and author of various papers and book chapters on copyright, and is co-editor of the book, Modern Copyright Fundamentals; Weil, B.H.; Polansky, B.F., Eds., Revised Edition, Learned Information, 1990. Ms. Polansky received a B.S. in Operations Management from the Pennsylvania State University in 1975 and did graduate coursework in library science at the University of Illinois, as well as continuing legal education at the Practicing Law Institute in New York.
MICHAEL RAUGH, INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Mike Raugh is vice president and chief technology officer of Interconnect Technologies Corporation. Interconnect Technologies is a Silicon Valley firm specializing in research and development and application of digital library technologies. Dr. Raugh has worked in advanced technology at Stanford University and Hewlett-Packard Labs. Before joining Interconnect, he served as chief scientist at the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science where he developed innovative methods for organizing online information. He leads Interconnect's products and services for information organization and analysis.
RUTH K. SEIDMAN, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Ruth Seidman is head of the Engineering and Science Libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she has led the librarian staff in innovative partnering with faculty to teach information competencies in the undergraduate engineering design curriculum. She previously served as Director of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory Research Library. Ms. Seidman is the editor of the Haworth Press, Inc., quarterly Science & Technology Libraries. In 1990-1991, she was President of Special Libraries Association; she is also a member of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the American Society for Engineering Education, and Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Seidman has given presentations widely on library automation, library management, and international librarianship. She is the author of the 1993 monograph, Building Global Partnerships for Library Cooperation. Her Web home page is <http://web.mit.edu/rks/www/>. Ms. Seidman holds a bachelor's degrees with highest honors from Brown University, master's degrees from Harvard University and from Hebrew College of Brookline, Massachusetts, and a master's degree in library science from Case Western Reserve University, where she was elected to Beta Phi Mu.
FRANK M. SHIPMAN III, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Frank Shipman is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University. He has been pursuing research in the areas of hypermedia, computer-supported cooperative work, and intelligent user interfaces since 1987. Dr. Shipman's doctoral work at the University of Colorado and subsequent work at Xerox PARC and Texas A&M has investigated combining informal and formal representations in interfaces and methods for supporting incremental formalization. He manages two on-going research projects in the areas of spatial hypertext and computers and education.
AMANDA SPINK, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
Amanda Spink is assistant professor of information science at the University of North Texas. Dr. Spink has numerous funded and industry projects and publications in the area of user modeling research for digital libraries and interactive information retrieval. Her research includes developing a digital library for cattle ranchers. Dr. Spink is also an associate editor of the journal Information Processing and Management. She received a B.A. from the Australian National University, a postgraduate degree in information from the University of New South Wales, an M.B.A in information technology management from Fordham University and a Ph.D. in information science from Rutgers University.
RONALD STEVENS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
Ron Stevens received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in microbiology and molecular genetics in 1971 and is professor of microbiology and immunology and professor of education. For 15 years he directed an immunology research laboratory and authored/co-authored over 100 articles in basic and clinical immunology. He is also the developer and original programmer of the Interactive Multimedia EXercises (IMMEX) problem-solving software which is used for evaluating the problem-solving performances of students from elementary schools through medical schools. Additional analytic software tools allow an electronic re-construction of the strategies that students' employ as they solve the problems allowing a determination of not only if the problem was solved, but how the problem was solved. Dr. Stevens has authored over a dozen educational research papers based on his use of IMMEX for evaluating students. He is currently using artificial neural networks in conjunction with the students' problem-solving performances to identify strategic problem-solving patterns that can discriminate within the novice-expert continuum. Dr. Stevens is the principal investigator on a major grant from the National Science Foundation to use the IMMEX software system to help integrate technology and problem-solving into all the science classrooms of the middle and high schools of Los Angeles.
KEITH STUBBS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Keith Stubbs' current responsibilities as Director of the National Library of Education's Resource Sharing and Cooperation Division include the U.S. Department of Education's Web site, the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) and its 30+ Web sites (which include AskERIC and the National Parent Information Network), and plans for a resource sharing network for educational libraries and information providers. Mr. Stubbs initiated ED's Internet presence in 1992, launched ED's Web site in March 1994, led an award-winning Web redesign and wrote ED's Web Server Standards & Guidelines in 1995, and recently conducted one of the first 0MB-sanctioned Internet customer surveys. He co-chairs ED's Internet Working Group and represents ED on the interagency World Wide Web (WWW) Federal Consortium and the Federal Internet-Based Education Resources (FIBER) initiative. Currently he is directing several cross-site indexing, cataloging, and searching projects to help people find the information they seek among the exploding volume of education material scattered across thousands of Internet sites.
*DIANE VIZINE-GOETZ, ON LINE COMPUTER LIBRARY CENTER
Diane Vizine-Goetz joined On line Computer Library Center in 1983 as post-doctoral fellow to continue research in database quality begun as an OCLC research assistant and doctoral student. Since then she has conducted research on the application and use of Library of Congress subject headings in online bibliographic systems and on automated classifier-assistance tools. Her research interests include cataloging and classifying print and electronic resources. She is principal research investigator on a project to enhance the usefulness of the direct digital control as a knowledge organizing tool. Dr. Vizine-Goetz received her Ph.D. from the School of Information and Library Science, Case Western Reserve University.
NISHA VORA, ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS
Nisha Vora is currently the deputy director of copyright and new technology for the Association of American Publishers. She is responsible for AAP's International Enforcement Program, the Rights and Permissions Advisory Committee, and the International Copyright Information Center. She is also the public liaison for the Electronic Publishing Special Interest Group, and helps to coordinate meetings of AAPs Enabling Technologies and Copyright Committees. Ms. Vora works with the U.S. government, including the U.S. Trade Representative, the Copyright Office, and the United States Information Agency for the protection of American copyrights here and abroad. Ms. Vora works with the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella organization of seven associations, to represent the U.S. copyright-based industries in bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve international protection of copyrighted works. She is responsible for the operation of AAP's copyright enforcement campaign in ten countries, and assists in coordinating copyright enforcement efforts in the United States. Ms. Vora earned her B.A. in communications from Virginia Tech, and has been with AAP since 1994.
PAUL WELLIN, WOLFRAM RESEARCH
Paul Wellin is the director of Corporate and Academic Affairs for Wolfram Research, Inc., maker of the technical computing software Mathematica. In this role, he serves as the liaison between Wolfram Research and industry and academia. Prior to joining Wolfram Research, Dr. Wellin was in academia, teaching mathematics in California. He is the author of two books (one on programming and another on computer simulations) and is the founder (and editor for its first five years) of the paper and electronic journal Mathematica in Education and Research (Springer-Verlag). He is chair of the Mathematics Advisory Board for Wolfram Research, and is a member of the Corporate and Foundation Alliance of the National Science Foundation.
WAYNE WOLF, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Wayne Wolf is associate professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. Before joining Princeton, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1981, and 1984, respectively. His research interests include computer-aided design of VLSI and embedded computing systems, video signal processors, and video libraries. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the International Society for Optical Engineering.
LEE ZIA, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Lee Zia is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of New Hampshire. He has been involved in a range of activities concerning undergraduate education, including the use of computational and visualization tools in differential equations, linear algebra, and scientific computing. Dr. Zia serves on the Education Committee for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and is an associate editor for the education section of SIAM Review. In 1995 and 1996 he was a program director with the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education, where a primary area of responsibility concerned information technology issues and their impact on undergraduate education. Dr. Zia received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina in 1978, an M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1985.