Scholarly Communications in a Digital World
Speakers
Keynote Speaker: Clifford Lynch
Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch 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 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.
Lynch currently serves on 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.
CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity.
Summary Speaker: Daniel Reed
Daniel A. Reed is the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a venture supported by the three universities – the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and North Carolina State University – that is exploring the interactions of computing technology with the sciences, arts and humanities. Reed also serves as Vice-Chancellor for Information Technology for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Reed is a member of President George W. Bush’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, charged with providing advice on information technology issues and challenges to the President, and he chairs the subcommittee on computational science. He is a board member for the Computing Research Association, which represents the interests of the major academic departments and industrial research laboratories. He was previously Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also led National Computational Science Alliance, a consortium of roughly fifty academic institutions and national laboratories that is developing next-generation software infrastructure of scientific computing. He was also one of the principal investigators and chief architect for the NSF TeraGrid. He received his PhD in computer science in 1983 from Purdue University.