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Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies
Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies
Pages 108-114
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Professor Abelson's research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory focuses on "amorphous computing," an effort to create programming technologies that can harness the power of the new computing substrates emerging from advances in microfabrication and molecular biology. He is also engaged in the interaction of law, policy, and technology as they relate to societal tensions sparked by the growth of the Internet, and he is active in projects at MIT and elsewhere to help bolster our intellectual commons.
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Mr. Bovenschulte has served as chair of the Executive Board of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, chair of the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center, chair of the Executive Council of the Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources.
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He holds overall responsibility for coordinating the strategic development and ongoing editorial management of Wiley's international Life and Medical Sciences publishing. Experienced in subscription journal, book, and new media publishing, Dr.
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Michael C Jensen is the managing director of the Organizational Strategy Practice at the Monitor Company and Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration emeritus of the Harvard Business School.
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Mr. Luce received a 1996 Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award for his contributions "introducing technological innovations supporting science and technology." The research library was corecipient of the 1999 Federal Library and Information Center of the Year award and a 1997 and 2000 Quality New Mexico "Roadrunner" recipient for organizational performance excellence based on the Malcolm Baldrige criteria.
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His responsibilities have included development and management of a database publishing system for reference publications; development of early CD-ROM and hypertext products; project manager for SGML publishing production system; development and direction of electronic publishing program; drafting copyright and permissions policy for the networked environment; and establishment of Digital Library, Online Bibliographic Database, and Computing Portal with appropriate business models Edward H Shortliffe*
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She oversees this distributed library system, which consists of five major collections, five smaller branch libraries in specialized subject areas, a fee-for-services group, and the Institute Archives. As of January 1999, her position expanded to include reporting responsibility for the MIT Press, which publishes approximately 200 new books and more than 40 journals per year in fields related to science and technology.
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