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SPEAKER
BIOS
Katy
Borner, Keynote Address
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Dr.
Borner is an Assistant Professor School of Library and Information
Science, Core Faculty in Cognitive Science, and Affiliated Faculty,
School of Informatics at Indiana University. Trained as an engineer,
Dr. Borner's major interest has always been a concern with how existing
technology can be applied to enhance and extend human capabilities.
In particular, her focus is on information visualization, data mining,
and virtual reality technology to facilitate efficient collaborative
information access and management. Dr. Borner designed diverse 3-dimensional
virtual environments such as AkuVis, VegoWelt, LVis-Digital Library
Visualizer, as well as several 3-D desktop worlds. She is a co-organizer
of international workshops on 'Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries'
and co-organizes a symposium on 'Collaborative Information Visualizations'.
Recently, she joined the VLearn3D Advisory Committee (http://www.vlearn3d.org/).
Project descriptions and publications are accessible from her home
page http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/.
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James
Burke - Panel 1 |
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Educated
at Oxford, James Burke has produced, directed, written and presented
award-winning television series on the BBC, PBS and The Learning Channel.
These include historical series, such as Connections, The Day the
Universe Changed, a mini-series on the brain, The Neuron Suite; The
Peace Game, a prophetic look at the breakup of Yugoslavia 1974; a
1989 series on the greenhouse effect, After the Warming, and a special
for the National Art Gallery on Renaissance painting, Masters of Illusion.
A bestselling author, Burke's publications include: Tomorrow's World,
Connections, The Day the Universe Changed, Chances, The Axemaker's
Gift , The Pinball Effect, The Knowledge Web and Circles. He wrote
a monthly column for Scientific American for six years, and is currently
a contributor to Forbes ASAP and Time magazine. Burke is a frequent
keynote speaker on the subject of technology and social change to
audiences such as NASA, MIT, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, the Association
of Computer Machines and other engineering societies, as well as various
US government agencies and the World Affairs Council. |
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Bruce
Damer - Panel 1 |
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Bruce
Damer: President and CEO, DigitalSpace Corporation, Director, Contact
Consortium, and author "Avatars". Bruce co-directs a research and
development consortium bringing virtual worlds to the net. He is a
visiting scholar at the University of Washington HIT Lab and through
his company is engaged in innovative projects with such partners as
NASA and Adobe Systems Inc. Bruce is continues to write and develop
a cyber-biological community on a farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains
known as the Digital Garden. |
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Cinzia
Gandini - Panel 2 |
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Cinzia
Gandini DVM, specialist in Small Animal Practice, interested in new
computer-based technologies applied to the scientific field. Creator
of various 3D environments and related websites. At present she's
developing a new 3D work in distance Chemistry Education. Her past
project Vetunimi, which is specifically dedicated to the Veterinary
Medical field, is showing the many possibilities of application and
usefulness of 3D collaborative environments. |
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Allan Lundell &
Sun McNamee - Panel 3 |
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Allan Lundell
began his career as founding editor of Infoworld and the first West
Coast editor of Byte Magazine. Later, as technical editor of Mondo
2000 and Digital Video Magazines he continues to write and develop
projects using the full range of renaissance media creation tools.
Marian Sun McNamee
is co-founder of Virtual World Studios and began her career as one
of the earliest experts in desktop publishing, based on the first
Macintosh computer. Her company, UTECH (Utopian Technology) went
on to become a one-stop computer shop for San Francisco. Since that
time she has worked on numerous multi-media programs and products.
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Andrew Phelps - Panel
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Andrew
is an Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology
(RIT) serving in the Dept. of Information Technology. He began work
in 3D coming from a traditional art background, and holds BFA degrees
in both computer graphics and traditional painting. He has been published
in numerous animation trade magazines and technical publications.
While completing his MS in Information Technology, he became increasingly
interested in multi-user virtual world spaces and currently researches
the intersection of a number of long-standing and emerging technologies
including database systems, VRML, Java, and the External Authoring
Interface (EAI). He also currently serves as EAI Working Group Co-Chair
for the Web3D Consortium and is actively involved with numerous other
VRML, V-net and X3D initiatives. |
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Jeffrey
Sonstein - Panel 2 |
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Jeffrey
Sonstein is Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology
Dept. Rochester Institute of Technology College of Computing and Information
Sciences. |
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