ICAIL 2007, Palo Alto, California
Supporting Search and Sensemaking for Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings (“DESI Workshop”)
June 4, 2007
Speaker Biographies
Kevin D. Ashley, Ph.D.
Professor of Law and Intelligent Systems
University of PittsburghSchool of Law
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dr. Kevin Ashley holds interdisciplinary appointments as a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, a Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and DevelopmentCenter, a Professor of Law, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science. His goals are to contribute to Artificial Intelligence (AI) research on case-based and analogical reasoning, argumentation and explanation and to develop instructional systems for students and professionals in case-based domains such as law and ethics. He received a B.A. in philosophy (magna cum laude) from PrincetonUniversity in 1973, J.D. (cum laude) from HarvardLawSchool in 1976, and Ph.D. in computer science in 1988 from the University of Massachusetts where he held an IBM Graduate Research Fellowship. For his Ph.D. he developed an AI CBR system, HYPO, which reasons by analogy to past legal cases, makes arguments about legal fact situations and poses hypothetical cases. MIT Press / Bradford Books published his book based on his dissertation entitled Modeling Legal Argument: Reasoning with Cases and Hypotheticals. In April, 1990, the National Science Foundation selected Professor Ashley as a Presidential Young Investigator, and in 2002 he was selected as a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. From June, 1988 through July, 1989, he was a Visiting Scientist at the ThomasJ.WatsonResearchCenter, Yorktown Heights, New York.
Dr. Simon Attfield
Senior Research Fellow
UniversityCollege, London Interaction Centre
London, U.K.
Simon is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL Interaction Centre at UniversityCollege London. He has a background in Philosophy, Psychology, InformationScience and Human Computer Interaction. His PhD thesis 'Information seeking,gathering and review: Journalism as a case study for the design of searchand authoring systems' was awarded 'Highly Commended' in the The EuropeanFoundation for Management Development and Emerald Outstanding DoctoralResearch Awards (2005) (Information Science class).
Simon is currently working on the project 'Making Sense of Information'funded by the EPSRC. His research interests lie in the area of understandinginformation interaction in naturalistic settings and how the processesinvolved in sensemaking can be better supported. He has conducted numerousfield studies of information behaviour, including studies in national newsorganizations (The Times, ITN), legal firms (Richards Butler, FreshfieldsBruckhaus Deringer) and various healthcare settings. He has consulted tonews, legal and medical information providers, published internationally inacademic outlets, and presented research internationally to academic andcommercial audiences.
Jason R. Baron, Esq.
Director of Litigation
Office of General Counsel
National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, Maryland
Jason Baron has served since the year 2000 as Director of Litigation for the National Archives and RecordsAdministration. Between 1988 and 1999, Mr. Baron held successive positions as trial attorney and senior counsel in theCivil Division of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., where he represented the interests of the U.S. governmentin a variety of complex lawsuits including involving access to governmental information. Mr. Baron appeared as leadcounsel in two cases filed against the White House and the Archivist of the United States involving electronic recordsmanagement (Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President and Public Citizen v. Carlin), as well as in cases involving Congress’ attempts to regulate the Internet. Among his publications, he isthe author of two recent law review articles entitled “Toward A Federal Benchmarking Standard For Evaluating InformationRetrieval Products Used In E-Discovery,” published in 6 Sedona Conference Journal 237 (2005), and, with co-author George L. Paul, “Information Inflation: Can The Legal System Cope?,” published in Vol. 13of the online
Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, available at index.asp (#10). He currently represents NARA on The Sedona Conference ® Working Group on Electronic Records Retention and Production, where he co-chairs a Special Project Team on Search and Retrieval Sciences. For the past two years he has served as co-coordinator of the National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) legal track. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, an Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland’s graduate College of Information Studies. He also presently serves on the Georgetown University Law Center Advanced E-Discovery Institute advisory board. Mr. Baron received degrees from WesleyanUniversity and the Boston University School of Law.
Robert S. Bauer, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
H5
San Francisco, California
Bob Bauer has over 30 years of leadership in turning innovativetechnologies into strategic advantages. Dr. Bauer is the former vicepresident and founding CTO of Xerox Global Services. He joined Xerox'sPalo Alto Research Center (PARC) in its inaugural year of 1970. On PARC
senior staff, he led the System Sciences Laboratory and created PARC'sAdvanced Systems Development lab. These organizations deliveredsocio-technical innovations that leveraged deep understanding of howpeople can better manage increasing amounts of information in the
workplace. He has incubated and helped create many companies thatleverage innovative technologies that help businesses be moreproductive. Dr. Bauer earned MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering fromStanfordUniversity. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,and has been an advisor for the National Academy of Sciences, theNational Science Foundation, UNESCO, and the federal Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Homeland Security.
Danny G. Bobrow, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Palo Alto Research Center Inc.
Daniel G. Bobrow is a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Palo AltoResearchCenter, and a member of the Natural Language Theory and Technology Area. He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from MIT, and has over 100 published papers and books. Topics include programming languages (Lisp, Logo, Loops, Common Lisp Object System), computer-supported collaborative work (Colab, Paper Intermedium), and more recently, community knowledge systems that require participatory social and technical design (Pueblo, Eureka, RDC), and natural language and knowledge-based question-answering (Student, KRL, GUS, Bridge). Bobrow wrote one of the first AI theses on natural language question answering for algebra story problems(STUDENT). His current research focus is once again natural language question-answering. He is co-Principal Investigator on a project exploring Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence (AQUAINT). Using a wide-coverage English grammar, and an efficient language analysis engine, the project is exploring the value of mapping texts to a knowledge representation (KR), and determining whether a text answers a question by whether it logically entails the answer. Current work includes development of a KR indexing methodology and data base and retrieval strategy to locate in large document collections answers to questions, rather than only "possibly relevant" documents. Bobrow has been President of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), chair of the Cognitive Science Society, Editor-in-chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence, and member of many editorial boards and program committees. He is the recipient of the ACM Software Systems Award, and is a fellow of both the ACM and AAAI.
Macyl Burke
ACT Litigation Services
Valencia, California
Macyl A. Burke is a Director with ACT Litigation Services and has been so for the last 5 years. Before joining ACT, Macyl was a Consultant in the quality and systems field and worked for several organizations. Macyl has been active in The Sedona Conference and attends meetings and gatherings around the discovery phase of litigation. For over 30 years he was CEO and operated an Integrated Marketing Communications business with over $40 million in sales that he co-founded. He has studied with the quality expert W. Edwards Deming and for many years participated in Peter Senge’s systems approach to organizational change through the Society of Organizational Learning. With his wife of over 30 years Ellen, they enjoy travel, reading, and tennis. Macyl was educated and grew up in Texas, but has lived in California since 1969. They have two grown children.
Chris Buckley, Ph.D.
Sabir Research
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Dr. Chris Buckley has been actively pursuing research in InformationRetrieval for over 25 years; first working with Gerard Salton atCornellUniversity, and then forming a company, Sabir Research, tocontinue his research. He is the author of over 80 publications, andhas been heavily involved in the TREC workshops since their inceptionin 1991. Particular areas of interest include statistical IR and IRevaluation.
Jack G. Conrad
Senior Research Scientist
Research & Development
Thomson Legal & Regulatory
St. Paul, Minnesota
Jack G. Conrad is a Senior Research Scientist in the Research & Development group at Thomson Legal & Regulatory. His research areas fall under a broad spectrum of Information Retrieval topics. Some of these include document clustering and deduplication for knowledge management systems, resource selection in massive data environments, and document structure analysis for legal texts. Jack has researched and implemented resource discovery techniques for applications in an operational environment consisting of tens of thousands of databases and has developed and evaluated algorithms for real-time fuzzy duplicate detection in large document repositories. He has authored numerous technical papers and has several patents pending. Jack completed his graduate studies in English (Linguistics) at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver and in Computer Science (Information Retrieval) at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. His undergraduate fields of study were Electrical Engineering and English at MarquetteUniversity in Milwaukee.
Conor R. Crowley, Esq.
Managing Director
DOAR Litigation Services
New York City, N.Y.
Conor R. Crowley is a Managing Director and Associate General Counselfor DOAR Litigation Consulting in New York. Prior to joining DOAR, hewas a practicing securities litigator with
firms in Washington, D.C.,Chicago and New York, most recently with Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff. Heis a member of the Steering Committee for The Sedona Conference WorkingGroup on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention andProduction, as well as a co-editor of several of the Conference'spublications. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter's Advanced E-Discovery Institute and regularlyspeaks at seminars and conferences across the country on legal andstrategic issues related to electronic discovery and informationmanagement. His most recent article, "Judges, lawyers must gettech-savvy: Proper understanding of technology should result inefficient discovery," was published by The National Law Journal on March19, 2007. Conor graduated from the University of Maryland Smith School of Businesswith a B.Sc. in Finance, and received his J.D. from the CatholicUniversity of America Columbus School of Law.
David Eichmann, Ph.D.
Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Dr. Eichmann is Associate Director for Biomedical Informatics in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and Associate Professor of Information Science in the School of Library and Information Science, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Iowa in 1989, with a dissertation in database theory. Dr. Eichmann has been on the faculty at SeattleUniversity, West
Virginia University and most recently at the University of Houston - Clear Lake, where he chaired the Software Engineering program and was Director of Research and Development for the NASA-funded Repository Based Software Engineering project. MORE, one of the systems
developed as part of RBSE, received a NASA Group Achievement Award in 1998 from JohnsonSpaceCenter and was nominated in 1998 by JSC for the NASA Software of the Year Award. Since his return to Iowa in 1997, he has been working on information extraction and retrieval,
particularly with respect to information filtering, named entity recognition and multimedia clustering. His current position involves the formation of a research data warehouse spanning
the basic and clinical sciences.
Tamer Elsayed
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Tamer Elsayed is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at the University ofMaryland-College Park, working with Professor Douglas W. Oard. He received hisbachelor degree from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1997, and masterdegrees from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 2001 and the University ofMaryland in 2005. He is interested in the area of information retrievalwith more emphasis on the problem of searching informal communicationmedia. His Ph.D. research focuses on the problem of identity and contentresolution in email collections, when the searcher is not familiar withthe people in the collection.
Fredric C. Gey, Ph.D.
Information Scientist
UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance (UC DATA)
University of California, Berkeley
Fred Gey is an information scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, where he does research in multilingual information access and social science information systems. He is currently interested in the intersection of statistics, text and geographic information systems. He has received numerous research grants from NSF, DARPA and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). His current grant from IMLS, “Biography in Context,” is exploring XML representations and map-oriented user interfaces for biography as a sequence of events in time and space, overlaid with historical events (and people) which provide context for individual lives. Dr. Gey’s PhD dissertation was on probabilistic document ranking algorithms. He was General Chair of the ACM SIGIR 1999 conference on research in information retrieval.
Jonathan Grudin, Ph.D.
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Redmond, Washington
Jonathan Grudin is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research. Prior to joining Microsoft he was Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He has been active in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work since they came together in the 1980s, focusing much of his work on the adoption and use of collaboration technologies. He has recently been looking at how emerging technologies and the behaviors around them, many of them initially found in the consumer and student spaces, are coming into organizations and changing how we work.
Teresa Jade
Director of Technology & Development
H5
San Francisco, California
Teresa Jade leads H5's Linguistic Technology, Research & Implementation,and Corpus
Analysis groups, which configure and create solutions toprovide leading-edge information
risk management services. Leveragingher training as a linguist, she developed processes of conceptual andlinguistic modeling for H5 that produce custom configurations of H5's
software for each client to replicate expert judgments in a variety ofdomains. Ms. Jade specializes in corpus analysis, lexicon development,grammar development, process and system architecture, and discourseanalysis. Before joining H5, Ms. Jade was a computational linguist at
Discern Communications, a SRI International spin-off, where she workedto create a marketable question-answering system. Ms. Jade has extensiveexpertise in innovatively blending Information Extraction andInformation Retrieval approaches to solve problems in Natural LanguageProcessing. Ms. Jade holds two M.A. degrees from the University of Texas
at Arlington, in German and in Linguistics with emphases incomputational linguistics and discourse analysis. She earned a B.A. withhonors from TennesseeTechnologicalUniversity.
David Kirsch, Ph.D.
RobertH.SmithSchool of Business
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
David A. Kirsch is Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on the intersection of problems of innovation and entrepreneurship, technological and business failure, and industry emergence and evolution. His first book, The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History (Rutgers University Press, 2000), examined the history of the electric vehicle in the U.S. in the early 20th century and the implications of that history for contemporary transportation policy. Related works appeared in Business History Review (2002) and Technology and Culture (2001). Kirsch’s current research looks at the recent boom and bust in internet technology companies in the 1990s. With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and in partnership with the Library of Congress, he has established the Digital Archive of the Birth of the Dot Com Era, an archive that includes collections of business plans ( ), legal records, and personal narratives. Kirsch received a Ph.D. in History of Technology from StanfordUniversity, an M.A. in Economics of Technological Change from the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) at the University of Limburg (Netherlands), and an A.B. from HarvardCollege in History and Science. He is a trustee of the Business History Conference and serves as the Senior Editor for H-Business.
KaKan Lo
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
KaKan Lo received his B.Eng degree in Computer Engineering at the ChineseUniversity
of Hong Kong in 2004. He is currently pursuing M.Phil. study in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the same University. His research interests
include natural language processing, information extraction and retrieval from human language, question answering, and Machine Reading.
Mitchell P. Marcus, Ph.D.
RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mitchell Marcus teaches artificial intelligence and natural languageprocessing in the Department of Computer and Information Science atthe University of Pennsylvania, where he is the RCA Professor ofArtificial Intelligence and also Professor of Linguistics. He studiedLinguistics and Applied Mathematics at HarvardUniversity as anundergraduate, received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the MIT ArtificialIntelligence Lab, and was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T BellLaboratories. He has served as Chair of the Department of Computerand Information Science, and as Chair of the Penn Faculty Senate, aswell as President of the Association for Computational Linguistics. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. He was the principal investigator for the Penn Treebank Projectthrough the mid-1990s. Research interests include: statisticalnatural language processing, methodologies for annotation oflinguistic structure in large text corpora, human-robot communication,and natural language processing. He is also a member of theScientific Advisory Board of H5 Technologies.