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2002 JSB Symposium Speakers
Daniel E. Atkins, professor and founding dean of the School
of Information |
Daniel E. Atkins
Daniel E. Atkins is professor in the School of Information, a
professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, and director of the Alliance
for Community Technology. He was the founding dean of the
School of Information.
Atkins joined
U-M's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
(EECS) in 1972. In 1981 he was named associate dean for research
and graduate studies for the U-M College of Engineering. From
January 1989 through July 1990 he served as interim dean of the
College.
Since the
mid 1980s, Atkins has provided research leadership in the use
of distributed computing/ communication to support distributed
forms of team-based knowledge work. In 1990 he created a research
and development consortium to realize a prototype of a "collaboratory."
The collaboratory vision links people, computer- based tools,
electronic information, and facilities to support remote, distributed
intellectual teamwork.
Atkins became
founding dean of the new School of Information in July 1992, a
position which he held until September 1998. With major support
of the University and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, he led the
School of Information to provide international leadership in creating
graduate research and educational programs to produce leaders
and change agents in the design, use, and evaluation of new knowledge
work environments.
John
Seely Brown, former vice president and chief scientist of
Xerox and former director of the Xerox Palo Atlo Research
Center (PARC) |
John
Seely Brown
A U-M alumnus for whom the Symposium is named, John Seely Brown
was until recently vice president and chief scientist of Xerox
and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). At
Xerox, he was deeply involved in research on organizational learning,
ethnographies of the workplace, complex adaptive systems, and
techniques for unfreezing the corporate mind.
His entrepreneurial
spirit has inspired many and caught the attention of those who
wish to aggressively pursue meaningful change within a stimulating
environment. His vision was noted in the August 2000 issue of
Wired magazine, in which he was lauded as the "big
brain" of Xerox.
In 1997, Brown
authored Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation.
He is the coauthor of The Social Life of Information, written
with Paul Duguid. In multimedia, he was an executive producer
of the award-winning film Art: Lunch: Internet: Dinner,
which won a bronze prize at Worldfest '94, the Charleston International
Film Festival.
Mary
Sue Coleman, 13th president of the University of Michigan |
Mary Sue Coleman
Mary Sue Coleman is president of the University
of Michigan. She is also professor of biological chemistry in the U-M
Medical School and professor of chemistry in the College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts. Coleman served as president of the University
of Iowa for seven years before becoming Michigan's 13th president
on August 1, 2002.
Coleman has
also served in top administrative positions at the University
of New Mexico and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She served 19 years as a member of the biochemistry faculty and
as a Cancer Center administrator at the University of Kentucky
in Lexington, where her research focused on the immune system
and malignancies.
Elected to
the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in 1997,
Coleman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She
co-chairs the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Consequences
of Uninsurance.
Coleman earned
her bachelor's in chemistry from Grinnell College and her doctorate
in biochemistry from the University of North Carolina. She did
postdoctoral work at North Carolina and at the University of Texas
at Austin.
Elizabeth
M. Daley, dean of the School of Cinema-Television and executive
director of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the
University of Southern California, will give the second
John Seely Brown Lecture on October 3, 2002. Her talk will
be titled "The Screen as Vernacular: Expanding Concepts
of Literacy." Read
more about her talk.
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Elizabeth M. Daley
Elizabeth M. Daley is dean of the School of Cinema-Television
and executive director of the Annenberg Center for Communication
at the University of Southern California (USC). She holds the
Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Dean's Chair at USC.
Prior to joining
USC, Daley served as executive director of Taper Media Enterprises
and as a producer for MGM/UA Television. She also worked as an
independent television producer in Washington, DC and was a member
of the faculty of the School of Communications at American University.
She has served
as a consultant to many organizations, including the National
Endowment for the Arts, the National Organization for Women, the
American Association of University Women, and the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
She has been
twice honored by American Women in Radio and Television and has
received the California Governor's Award and a lifetime achievement
award from the International Electronic Cinema Association.
Daley has
a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. and B.A.
from Tulane University and Newcomb College.
James J. Duderstadt, 11th president of the University of Michigan |
James J. Duderstadt
James J. Duderstadt was named the University of Michigan's 11th
president in 1988 and served until 1996.
A nuclear
engineer by training, Duderstadt had served as dean of the College
of Engineering and as vice president for academic affairs. Foreseeing
a world in which knowledge, globalization, and pluralism would
be critical elements, Duderstadt initiated the "Michigan
Mandate" to bring more diversity to campus and moved to reshape
academic programs to prepare students for the global economy and
information revolution. He also oversaw a major program of new
construction and rehabilitation of the campus infrastructure.
Duderstadt's
teaching and research interests have spanned a wide range of subjects
in science, mathematics, and engineering, including work in areas
such as nuclear fission reactors, thermonuclear fusion, high powered
lasers, computer simulation, science policy, higher education,
and information technology.
He has received
numerous national awards for his research, teaching, and service
activities, including the E. O. Lawrence Award for excellence
in nuclear research, the Arthur Holly Compton Prize for outstanding
teaching, and the National Medal of Technology for exemplary service
to the nation. He has been elected to numerous honor societies
including the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy
of Arts and Science, Phi Beta Kappa, and Tau Beta Pi.
Duderstadt
earned his bachelor's from Yale University in 1964 and his Ph.D.
in engineering science and physics from Caltech in 1967. He is
now president emeritus and University Professor of Science and
Engineering at U-M. He also serves as director of the Millennium
Project, a research center in the U-M Media Union concerned with
the impact of technology on research and teaching.
Robben W. Fleming served as president of U-M from 1968 to
1979. |
Robben W. Fleming
Robben W. Fleming, former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin
and former professor of labor relations specializing in arbitration
and mediation, became U-M's eleventh president in January 1968
and served until 1979. Though Ann Arbor was a center of student
activism during those years, Fleming's patience, negotiating skills,
and genuine sympathy for the concerns of students and faculty
helped Michigan weather the decade without the destructive confrontations
that struck some universities.
Fleming went
on to serve as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
after resigning from the U-M presidency in 1979. He was called
back to campus to serve as interim president in 1988 when then-president
Harold Shapiro resigned.
Hideo Mabuchi, associate professor of physics at Caltech,
gave a presentation on using multimedia to teach difficult
scientific topics, such as quantum entanglement. |
Hideo Mabuchi
Hideo Mabuchi is associate professor of physics and control and
dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology.
Mabuchi's
current research addresses two areas. His work in quantum optics
and atomic physics includes fundamental studies in quantum measurement,
conditional dynamics of observed quantum systems, real-time quantum
feedback, and closed-loop quantum control. His research in optical
biophysics focuses on the use of experimental and mathematical
methods from quantum optics to enable biophysical investigations
at the few- or single-molecule level.
In 2000 Mabuchi
was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
(popularly known as the "genius" grant). His work has
also been recognized with a Young Investigator Award from the
Office of Naval Research, an A.P. Sloan Fellowship, a National
Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, and an R.
A. Millikan Fellowship. In 1999 he was named one of Technology
Review magazine's top 100 young innovators. The following
year he was recognized as one of Discover magazine's "
Twenty Scientists to Watch in the Next Twenty Years."
Mabuchi has
also been a guest professor at the Institut fur Experimentalphysik
at the University of Innsbruck and a visiting fellow in chemistry
at Princeton University.
Homer A. Neal served as interim president of the University
of Michigan upon the retirement of President James J. Duderstadt
in 1996. |
Homer Neal
Homer A. Neal is director of the UM-ATLAS Collaboratory Project,
the Samuel A. Goudsmit Professor of Physics, interim president
emeritus, and vice president emeritus for research at the University
of Michigan. From 1987 to 1993 he was chair of the University
of Michigan Physics Department. He has also served as vice president
for academic affairs and provost at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook and as dean for research and graduate development
at Indiana University.
Neal's research
area is experimental high energy physics. He is currently conducting
research at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics,
where his research group is part of the ATLAS Experiment. Neal
also participates in the DZERO collaboration that in 1995 announced
the discovery of the top quark. His technical research expertise
includes the design of particle detectors, particle event reconstruction
and analysis, large-scale database management, and particle physics
phenomenology
From 1980
- 1986 Neal was a member of the National Science Board, the governing
body of the National Science Foundation. His
other activities with national scientific groups include the Smithsonian
Institution Board of Regents, and the Center for Strategic and
International Studies Board of Trustees. He has been a Fellow
of the American Physical Society since 1972.
Neal's many
honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Stony Brook Medal,
and an honorary degree from Indiana University. He was the first
African American to serve as U-M president.
Neal earned
his MS in physics in 1963 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1966, both
from the University of Michigan.
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