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Appendix B: Biographical Information for Speakers and Steering
Appendix B: Biographical Information for Speakers and Steering
Pages 80-93
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Professor Abelson's research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory focuses on "amorphous computing," an effort to create programming technologies that can harness the power of the new computing substrates emerging from advances in microfabrication and molecular biology. He is also engaged in the interaction of law, policy, and technology as they relate to societal tensions sparked by the growth of the Internet, and he is active in projects at MIT and elsewhere to help bolster our intellectual commons.
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He has directed several large experimental digital library projects as well as projects to explore the application of "collaboratories" to scientific research. He has recently served as chair of the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure.
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He then went to Harvard University as a research fellow and subsequently became a member of the faculty. In 1974 he joined the faculty of Stanford University where he became a full professor of applied physics in 1979.
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Mr. Bovenschulte has served as chair of the Executive Board of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, chair of the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center, chair of the Executive Council of the Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources.
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He holds overall responsibility for coordinating the strategic development and ongoing editorial management of Wiley's international Life and Medical Sciences publishing. Experienced in subscription journal, book, and new media publishing, Dr.
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and the Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (PSP/AAP; 2001present)
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Michael C Jensen is the managing director of the Organizational Strategy Practice at the Monitor Company and Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration emeritus of the Harvard Business School.
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Formerly he has been in library leadership positions at Cornell, Berkeley, and Yale, most actively engaged in collection development with broad exposure to the global publication and bookselling trades. In 1995, in response to scholars' requests for assistance to their scholarly societies, he established the HighWire Press as an enterprise within the Stanford University Libraries to provide online copublishing services initially to three scholarly journals.
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Michigans' distinction as a premier digital library enterprise developed from a number of significant efforts launched during her tenure, including JSTOR, Making of America, the PEAK (Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge) Project, OAI harvesting initiative, and a number of publisher collaborations.
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Mr. Luce received a 1996 Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award for his contributions "introducing technological innovations supporting science and technology." The research library was co-recipient of the 1999 Federal Library and Information Center of the Year award and a 1997 and 2000 Quality New Mexico "Roadrunner" recipient for organizational performance excellence based on the Malcolm Baldrige criteria.
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She is responsible for making digital collections available to the many and varied users at Yale and has become an expert in licensing digital information for academic use and on building consortia of libraries to achieve the most effective service at the best price for academic users. Prior to joining Yale, she served as director of the Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing at the Association of Research Libraries.
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His responsibilities have included development and management of a database publishing system for reference publications; development of early CD-ROM and hypertext products; project manager for SGML publishing production system; development and direction of an electronic publishing program; drafting copyright and permissions policy for the networked environment; and establishment of Digital Library, Online Bibliographic Database, and Computing Portal with appropriate business models. Edward H
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Early on, he recognized the advantages of automating prepress and manufacturing work, including editorial, production, and typesetting functions, and successfully integrated the entire digital work flow at Aster Publishing Corporation in the mid-1980s. He also was responsible for automating publishing processes, creating SGML/XML/ HTML-encoded content, and delivering products electronically in the early 1990s for American Health Consultants (a Thomson company)
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A frequent speaker and writer, she has recently contributed papers on such topics as library service to remote library users, intellectual property management in the electronic environment, and the future of research libraries in the digital age.
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