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Appendix E: Biographies
Pages 434-444

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... and Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division (1975-1977) , emphasizing efforts against major drug traffickers, organized crime, and corrupt public officials.
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... Such a program entails understanding people's problem situations, and how they attempt to resolve them, in a variety of contexts; the nature and functions of information support communication; and information representation, retrieval, and presentation appropriate to such contexts. These factors lead to specific research goals, which currently include characterization and classification of human information-related problems; description and an analysis of human-human information interaction and design of human-computer information interaction; and classification of human information-seeking strategies and interactions with texts.
From page 436...
... He is currently co-authoring Computer Vision A Modern Approach, a graduate textbook in computer vision; some 20 chapters are currently available on the Web. He has served as a referee for all the main professional journals in the area, and he is currently program co-chair for the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference and a member of the program committee for the European Conference on Computer Vision.
From page 437...
... Hodge is a National PTA honorary life member as well as an honorary life member of fourteen state PTAs. Included among her awards are the California PTA Honorary Service Award, the California PTA Continuing Service Award, and the Vallejo School District Award Recognizing Outstanding Parent Volunteers.
From page 438...
... Prior to joining Excite@Home, Medin served as project manager at NASA Ames Research Center. During his tenure, he directed the NASA National Research and Education Network project that, in combination with partners at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, deployed a high-speed national ATM infrastructure connecting major supercomputing and data archiving centers.
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... from Yale University in Mathematics and Computer Science. His work on digital endorsement, annotation, and reputation data as strategies for on-the-fly information quality assessment, on personalization strategies for Web content, and on modular data interchange vocabularies began in the early l990s.
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... Mr. Stone has served on the board of governors of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, on the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, Illinois Division, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an ax-officio member of the American Law Institute, a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the Board of Advisers of the National Association of Public Interest Law The Public Service Challenge, a member of the Advisory Board of the Legal Aid Society, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation.
From page 441...
... Sunstein in the area of constitutional law. He has also written numerous articles concerning such matters as the freedom of speech and press, freedom of religion, the constitutionality of police use of secret agents and informants, the privilege against self-incrimination, the Supreme Court, and the FBI.
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... Apart from his CSTB work, a list of publications in cognitive science, science education, biophysics, and arms control and defense policy is available on request. Gail Pritchard was a program officer at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, where she contributed research and administrative skills to help produce such reports as Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society, Being Fluent with Information Technology, and Building a Workforce for the Information Economy.
From page 443...
... Her dissertation work uses qualitative research methodologies to uncover strategies collegiate coaches use to address issues of equity (e.g., racism, sexism, and homophobia) within women's athletics in order to create tolerant and cohesive climates on their teams in which all athletes can thrive and develop.


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