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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Study Committee and Workshop Speakers and Panelists
Pages 314-327

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... This was followed by 10 years at the UT Research Institute and Illinois Institute of Technology. He then joined NCAR as manager of the Field Observing Facility in 1973 and in 1980 became director of the Atmospheric Technology Division, which is responsible for all of NCAR's observational research and research support facilities, used by scientists in universities and laboratories throughout the world.
From page 315...
... . PHILIP LOFTUS is vice president and director of Worldwide Information Services Architecture and Technology for Glaxo Wellcome, where he is responsible for both the information services infrastructure and global information management.
From page 316...
... the co-reporter for the American Law Instituters Restatement (Thirty of Unfair Competition and is a member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, which is currently considering changes to the Uniform Commercial Code Article 2(B) regarding private contracts for intellectual property.
From page 317...
... Adler was assistant project director, Communications and Information Technologies Program, for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where she worked on studies relating to government information, networking and supercomputer issues, and information
From page 318...
... Courts of Appeals for the Tenth and Distnct of Columbia Circuits. JON BAUMGARTEN is a partner with the law firm of Proskauer Rose LAP, where his practice focuses on domestic and international copyright, trademark, licensing, contract litigation, and related matters pertaining to the publishing, motion picture, music and recording, communications, and arts communities.
From page 319...
... In 1989, he went to work for the Sevilleta LTER project as their data manager and stayed until 1996. While at Sevilleta he was very active in LTER network data management, serving several years as chair of the LTER data management committee.
From page 320...
... Mr. Dickinson is an active member of numerous professional associations, including the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Trademark Association, and the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
From page 321...
... In that capacity he directed the economic analysis for several matters involving high-technology industries and led a task force that developed joint Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. Professor Gilbert's other professional activities have included director of the University of California Energy Institute, service on the editorial boards of several academic economics journals, vice-chair of the American Bar Association's antitrust section committee on economics, and president of the Industrial Organization Society.
From page 322...
... Dr. Kayser joined the National Bureau of Standards in May 1976 as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow and joined the Thermophysics Division as a permanent staff member one year later.
From page 323...
... He currently serves the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services as president and member of the Board. TERESA LUNT is principal scientist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where she is area manager for the Secure Document Systems group.
From page 324...
... Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was dean of university libraries at Indiana University and held administrative positions in the libraries at Penn State, Notre Dame, and the City University of New York.
From page 325...
... Ms. Peters is an active member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association, ALAl-USA, the District of Columbia Bar Association, including the Computer Law Section, the DC Computer Law Forum, and the Computer Law Association, of which she is currently as a member of the Board of Directors.
From page 326...
... He is a member of the National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library Review Committee and is a former member of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee. He is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association, the Medical Library Association, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
From page 327...
... Williams was executive director of Information Resources and Strategic Planning at the Merck Research Laboratories. During her almost 24 years at Merck, she made contributions as a laboratory scientist in the application of biophysical techniques to drug design; led strategic planning for R&D; led the molecular modeling department in the development of improved approaches to computational chemistry and chemical data mining; and provided planning and coordination of information and computer resources including the publication of the Merck Index.


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