SPEAKERS' BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS

Kevin D. Franklin received his doctorate in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco in 1993. A Senior Fellow at the San Francisco State University Urban Institute from 1985 to l997, he was named Chairman of Nonprofit Ventures at Irvine in 1998. Later, he became Deputy Director of the University of California San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), responsible for business development, government relations, and technology transfer. In January 2002, he became Assistant Director and Chief of Staff for the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).

Douglas Greenberg, who holds degrees from Rutgers and Cornell, is President and CEO of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Formerly President of the Chicago Historical Society and Vice President of the American Council of Learned Societies, he also taught American history at Lawrence, Princeton, and Cornell Universities. He has published widely both about American history and about the relationship between technology and scholarship in the humanities.

Michael Joyce is currently Associate Professor of English, Co-director of the Media Studies Development Program, and Director of the Center for Electronic Learning and Teaching at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. His most recent print novel, Liam's Going, was published by McPherson and Company in September 2002. A collection of short fictions and prose pieces, Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions, was published by the State University of New York Press in 2001. He serves on the editorial boards for Postmodern Culture, Works & Days, as well as the Computers and Composition journal.

Stanley N. Katz, Lecturer with the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. Katz received his B.A., M.A. and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. A leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, he is also active in the research field of arts and cultural policy, currently serving as the Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School. He was founding President of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).

Brian Kernighan (Ph.D., Princeton, 1969) has been a professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University since 1999, where he has focused on computer education for non-technical students. Prior to that he was in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs, where he did research in document preparation systems, programming languages, software tools, and user interfaces. He is the co-author of several programming textbooks.

Mark Lawrence Kornbluh is Director of MATRIX, The Center for Humane Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Online and Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. Kornbluh is the Principal Investigator on a wide range of digital research and education projects, including the National Gallery of the Spoken Word, a five year, $3.6 million project to develop the usefulness of audio resources online, as well as the African Online Digital Library. Kornbluh also serves as Executive Director of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine.

Clifford Lynch is Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). He spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and currently serves on the Internet2 Applications Council and the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress. He was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRC's committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Janet H. Murray directs Georgia Tech's graduate program in Information Design and Technology and its Laboratory for Advanced Computing Initiatives. Her book, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace is widely used as a roadmap to the coming broadband art, information, and entertainment environments. She is currently working on a textbook for MIT Press, Inventing the Medium: A Principled Approach to Interactive Design. She is a Trustee of the American Film Institute where she mentors in its Enhanced TV Workshop and with whom she is currently working on a digital edition of Casablanca. With a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University, Professor Murray taught humanities and led advanced interactive design projects at MIT before coming to Georgia Tech in 1999. Her primary fields of interest are interactive narrative, story/games, interactive television, and large-scale multimedia information spaces.

Stephen Murray was educated at Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1986 and currently serves as Director of the Media Center for Art History, Archaeology & Historic Preservation. His publications include books on the cathedrals of Amiens, Beauvais and Troyes; his current work is on medieval sermons, story telling in Gothic, and the Romanesque architecture of the Bourbonnais. His field of teaching includes Romanesque and Gothic art, particularly involving the integrated understanding of art and architecture within a broader framework of economic and cultural history. He is currently engaged in projecting his cathedral studies through the electronic media using a combination of three-dimensional simulation; digital imaging and video.

Bernard Smith studied applied physics in the UK and was a researcher in nuclear centers in Italy, Germany, and France, before joining the European Commission in 1981. Bernard spent 12 years as a nuclear inspector specializing in nuclear instrumentation and non-proliferation and treaty verification. He moved into the European Commission's information and technology programs in 1993, in 1999 was nominated Head of Unit, and in 2002, Head of Division. He now runs the new unit "Preservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage" in the Information Society Directorate General. His interests span new technologies, cultural and scientific heritage resources and institutions, digitization policies and programs, digital library research and, increasingly, digital preservation issues.

Leonard Steinbach has been Chief Information Officer of The Cleveland Museum of Art since 1999. Before this, he was Chief Technology Officer for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Mr. Steinbach serves on the Board of the Museum Computer Network, of which he was president, 2001-2002. He has been a professional technology manager for more than 20 years in health care, higher education, and research as well as in the arts. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of DanceCleveland, ACLU-Cleveland and NINCH as well as the Advisory Boards to the Shafran Planetarium of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the digital media program at the Cleveland Institute of Art. All this aside, he still believes that managing advanced technology is not a core competency of a museum. Finding innovative uses of new technology, to share the joy and meaning of art, is.

Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Assistant Professor of History in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South, published in 1999 by Louisiana State University Press, and co-author and assistant producer of a history of Virginia series for public television, The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War. Thomas is currently co-authoring with Edward L. Ayers a fully electronic scholarly article for publication in the American Historical Review, titled "The Difference Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities." The article is based on their research in the Valley of the Shadow project that has been widely recognized as an outstanding contribution to the teaching of history.

John Unsworth is Director of the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and Associate Professor in the Department of English. He is also Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium and its Technical Council, and President of the Association for Computers in the Humanities. His involvement with humanities computing and electronic scholarly publishing dates back to the founding of the first peer-reviewed electronic scholarly journal, Postmodern Culture, in 1990.

William Wulf was elected President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in April 1997; he had previously served as Interim President beginning in July 1996. Together with the National Academy of Sciences, the NAE operates under a congressional charter and presidential orders that call on it to provide advice to the government on issues of science and engineering. Dr. Wulf is on leave from the University of Virginia, where he is a University Professor and the AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. Among his activities at the University are a complete revision of the undergraduate Computer Science curriculum, research on computer architecture and computer security, and an effort to assist humanities scholars exploit information technology. Bill was previously Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he headed the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Prior to joining Virginia, he founded Tartan Laboratories and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Bill was also a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, where his research spanned programming systems and computer architecture.