Richard Baraniuk
Richard G. Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Rice University and founder of the Connexions Project (cnx.rice.edu). For his research in the area of Digital Signal Processing, he has received national young investigator awards from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research, the Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University, and the ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois.  He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001 and a Plus Member of AAA in 2004.  For his teaching, he has received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice twice and the C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teaching Award from Eta Kappa Nu.

Ben Brophy
Ben Brophy is the User Interface Designer in the Academic Media Production Services group at MIT. He is the lead designer of Stellar Course Management System, MIT’s platform for online teaching and learning. Ben also represents MIT in the Sakai Project, of which MIT is a founding member. Sakai is an open source software development effort to build a collaborative learning environment for higher education. As part of his work on Sakai, Ben recently completed a stint at UC Berkeley where he designed an online gradebook that integrates with tools in Sakai. Ben is an expert on user interface standards for the collaborative learning environment.
 

Michael Feldstein
Michael Feldstein is the Assistant Director in charge of blended learning at the SUNY Learning Network. He has been designing and developing e-learning and knowledge management solutions for top tier universities and Fortune 100 corporations for more than a decade. He began his career as an educator, then moved into corporate training to help organizations share knowledge online and improve their learning quotient. He was an active member of the Open Source community around MIT's dotLRN Course Management System (CMS) during its early phases of development, and has also overseen the design and development of a custom Learning Content Management System (LCMS) for a Fortune 100 company. In 2000-2001 Michael acted as the interim Chief Learning Officer for the Otter Group, where he explored collaborative online learning in depth. He is currently the author of the e-Literate weblog and a member of eLearn Magazine's Editorial Board.

Norman L. Gross
Norman L. Gross is the Assistant Vice-President for Software Services and Information Access at FIT. Prior to joining FIT in 2002, Mr. Gross accumulated forty years of IT experience at MetLife and other financial services and retailing organizations as well as numerous consulting engagements across varied industry sectors. While at MetLife he was responsible for systems managing more than $150 billion in pension assets and servicing the pension needs of 800,000 retirees. Since coming to FIT, he has upgraded and modernized administrative and student information systems, and he is now focusing on building a digital architecture for the school which will encompass, integrate and make accessible administrative and pedagogic media.

Michelle Hall
Michelle Hall is an Educational Technologist at the Columbia Center of New Media Teaching and Learning (CNMTL), where she provides support to faculty for the creation, implementation and use of online resources and course Web sites. Michelle’s experience with technology in education includes working with instructional design teams to produce web-based learning products for Citigroup and McGraw Hill, and also assisting Educational Technologists at CCNMTL in a part time capacity. Prior to that, she taught Biology and Chemistry at the secondary school level. Michelle has a BSc. in Biology and Chemistry and received her M.A. in Computing and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is currently pursuing the Ed.M in Cognitive Studies in Education there.

Beth Harris
Beth Harris is Director of Distance Learning at FIT. In 1999, she became Assistant Professor in the History of Art department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Since 2002, she has served in a variety of roles supporting FIT’s distance learning program. She co-developed the FIT Digital Image Library, co-chaired a discussion group on teaching with images for SUNY Learning Environments, presented on the future of the digital library at both the 2004 and 2005 SUNY-wide Conference on Instructional Technologies, and co-authored “The Image Library as Learning Environment,” at the invitation of the College Art Association (CAA News, March 2005). She also co-organized the 1994 FIT  conference, "Beyond the Slide Library." Dr. Harris has published numerous book reviews on Victorian art and also edited and contributed to Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2005). She has presented at numerous conferences, including Merlot, on the transition to digital images in the art history classroom.
She earned her Ph.D. in 1997 from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Carey Hatch
Carey Hatch is currently the Assistant Provost for Library and Information Services at the State University of New York, System Administration. Carey heads the Office of Library and Information Services, which supports and coordinates a variety of cooperative library programs and initiatives within the State University, including the SUNYConnect initiative. The goals of the SUNYConnect initiative are to implement the Aleph 500 library management system in all participating SUNY libraries, provide a seamless interface to the entire SUNY library collection through a union catalog, expand and enhance access to electronic resources for all University libraries, and build shared storage facilities that can be used by all SUNY Libraries. Carey is also currently a member of the New York State Library’s New York Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL) Steering Committee, and is a member of the New York State Higher Education Initiative (NYSHEI) Governing Board. Prior to working for the OLIS, Carey was the Senior Library Liaison Officer for SUNY/OCLC, an organization supporting 300 libraries in New York in their use of the OCLC products and services. Carey was primarily responsible for providing technical support to libraries in the areas of microcomputer systems and software, and telecommunications. Carey Hatch received his MLS from the University at Maryland at College Park, and his BA in Philosophy from the State University College of New York at Brockport.

Carl Jones
Carl has been at MIT Libraries since 1987 first as the head of Systems Office and more recently as a systems analyst working on special technology projects.  A former graduate student in the History of Art at UC Berkeley, Carl has a long-standing interest in the development and
use of digital image databases for teaching and scholarly research. Senior Systems Analyst, MIT Libraries (DSpace)

David Kahle
David is the Director of Tufts Academic Technology and oversees Tufts’ central AT initiatives which include technology education for faculty, curricular technology design and development and research computing administration. Prior to coming to Tufts, David served as Head of the Instructional Technology Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and as project manager at MIT’s Center for Advanced Educational Services. David’s experience includes the planning and development of networked learning environments in support of higher education, informal adult learning, and public outreach initiatives. His current research and development activities focus on the creation of information systems and cognitive tools designed to increased access to and comprehension of digital information. Toward this end, he is the Co-Director of the Tufts Digital Library and principle investigator for the Visual Understanding Environment, an information visualization project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. David serves on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, teaching courses on the design and development of online learning environments and software design.


Andreas Knab
Andreas Knab is a Computer Systems Engineer in the Center for Instructional Technology at James Madison University.  Holding a Master’s degree in Computer Science from JMU, Andreas has been involved in the development of several educational web applications.  He has been a lead developer on the Madison Digital Image Database project almost since its original inception in 1998 and has presented different aspects of the software at various conferences over the last years.

Henry Pisciotta
Henry Pisciotta is Arts and Architecture Librarian at Pennsylvania State University, where he led a two-year Visual Image User Study and serves on the Advisory Board of the LionShare project, led by Michael Halm.  Henry is the author of “Understanding the Picture User” in a forthcoming volume of Advances in Librarianship and of “Image Delivery and the Critical Masses” in the Journal of Library Administration.  He has been involved with beta testing and evaluation of the AMICO Library, the Research Libraries Group’s Cultural Materials initiative, and ARTstor and coordinated the development of Penn State’s in-house image delivery system.
 

Rachel Smith
Rachel Smith is the Director of Development and Programs for the New Media Consortium.
She works with member institutions on NMC projects and develops new opportunities for collaboration among members. Before joining NMC, she worked at the California State University Center for Distributed Learning, where she was involved with the development of MERLOT, Biology Labs On-Line, and other projects. She is the author of the monograph, "Guidelines for Authors of Learning Objects," released June 2004. Rachel holds a Master's degree in Education from Stanford University. Over the past decade she has actively participated in sharing her knowledge through presentations at various workshops around the country, and as a guest speaker at conferences such as CATS, the NMC Summer Conference, MERLOT, and Syllabus.

Barbara Taranto
Barbara Taranto is the Director of the Digital Library Program at The New York Public Library,
a position she has held since July 2001. She previously held the post of Digital Library Systems Coordinator. Ms. Taranto is an active member of the Coalition for Networked Information and the Digital Library Federations. She sits on the DLF Developers’ Forum, the DLF IMLS OAI-MHP Initiative, and the Metropolitan Library Association Information Systems Advisory Council. She has served on the strategic planning team for the International Children’s Digital Library, was the author of New York Public Library’s “Archiving E-Journal’s” whitepaper and was lead Program Officer for the NYPL LOCKSS program at the Library. Ms. Taranto has recently led the team that successfully published two new web services for the library – a 325,000-image publicly accessible database and the electronic monograph The African American Migration Experience. She is currently engaged in many digital projects at The New York Public Library, chief among them, Program Officer for the National Digital Newspaper Program, http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html and the expansion of the metadata infrastructure to incorporate new digital formats to support ongoing preservation and access of digital collections.

Janet Temos
Janet Temos was trained as an architectural historian, and received degrees in art history from Williams College (MA 1992), and Princeton University (PhD 2001). Her specialization is in the art and architecture of the English baroque. She began working with the Educational Technologies Center (ETC) in 1993, and became a full-time member of the staff in 2000. She is currently the director of ETC, whose mission is to assist Princeton faculty in using computer technology in their teaching. She has taught courses at Lehigh University, The College of New Jersey, and Princeton University. Janet is coauthor of articles on the history of architecture and art of the Indian subcontinent, and the author of several book reviews as well as articles on the use of technology in teaching.

Christina Updike
Christina Updike is the Visual Resources Specialist for the School of Art and Art History at James Madison University.  She has been in this position for thirty-one years and has dedicated her career to facilitating the teaching and study of art and art history at JMU. Christina has been very active in professional activities, having held the elected offices of Treasurer and President of the Visual Resources Association, as well as having published numerous articles on professional issues. In 1997, she was honored with the VRA's Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her long term service to the field of visual resources, as well as her many contributions to her affiliated organizations, institutions and community.  She was the 2003 recipient of the VRA Nancy DeLaurier Achievement Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the profession by developing and freely sharing the Madison Digital Image Database (MDID).  Most
recently, August 2004, she was presented the James Madison Distinguished Service Award by the JMU Alumni Association.

John Weber
John Weber is the director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, an interdisciplinary museum opened in 2000 to create links between contemporary art and other disciplines as part of the teaching effort at Skidmore.  Before coming to Skidmore in 2004, he was the curator of education and public programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  While at SFMOMA, he spear-headed the design of the Koret Education Center and founded the museum’s interactive educational technologies program, which created Pachyderm, an authoring tool for publishing non-linear, rich-media web and interactive kiosk features.  Weber is also a board member of the New Media Consortium, an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies; the NMC is currently developing a new, open-source version of Pachyderm for use by the higher education and museum worlds. 

N.J. Wolfe
N. J. Wolfe is Professor and Director of the Gladys Marcus Library, at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY in New York City, administering the Library, Graphics Lab and Interior Design Resource Center operations for the College.  Professor Wolfe has held several positions as a Library administrator including Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ; Ehrman Medical Library-NYU Medical Center; Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University; The New York Academy of Medicine and the Health Sciences Library, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.  He holds a Master of Science in Information Studies from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Science in Education, from Kutztown University. Professor Wolfe is a member of the American Library Association, LAMA (Library Administration and Management Association), New York Library Association, ARLIS (Art Libraries Society of North America) and VRA (Visual Resources Association).

Raymond Yee
Raymond Yee is the Technology Architect of the Interactive University Project at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been involved in software development for over 15 years, working on image processing, cellular and protein simulation web services, statistical educational software and online community development. He received a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, and B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, Physics option, from the University of Toronto. He has been an instructor at Berkeley, and while earning his Ph.D.,
he taught computer science, philosophy, and personal development to K-11 students in the Academic Talent Development Program on the Berkeley campus. Yee maintains a weblog detailing his professional work at http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee and a wiki containing random and not-so-random tidbits: http://raymondyee.net/wiki.

William Ying
Bill Ying is the Chief Technology Officer for ARTstor. As CTO, Dr. Ying is responsible for the effective deployment of hardware, databases, and software (both licensed and developed in-house) to maximize the quality of services delivered to the ARTstor user community. Prior to joining the ARTstor team in 2002, he was the CTO/CIO of Fathom Knowledge Inc from 2000-2002. Established by Columbia University in alliance with 13 partners, Fathom offers lifelong learning and professional development online. Before joining Fathom, Dr. Ying was Vice President of Information Systems at Uproar Inc. Earlier, he held a range of positions in information technology with Chase Manhattan, and the New York Blood Bank, where he developed the first bar code-based Blood Processing Information System, which created a standard for the healthcare industry. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University, School of Continuing Education, Computer Technology program. Dr. Ying received
his Doctorate of Engineering Science and Masters of Science from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science from Cornell University.

Steven Zucker
Steven Zucker is the Chair of the History of Art department at FIT where he has introduced digital media for teaching and research. He currently serves as Chair of both the Faculty Senate Committee on Instructional Technology and the College-wide Strategic Planning Committee on Digital Technology. He co-developed the FIT Digital Image Library, co-chaired a discussion group on teaching with images for SUNY Learning Environments, presented on the future of the digital library at both the 2004 and 2005 SUNY-wide Conference on Instructional Technologies, and co-authored “The Image Library as Learning Environment,” at the invitation of the College Art Association (CAA News, March 2005). He was co-organizer with Beth Harris of the 2004 FIT conference, "Beyond the Slide Library." Dr. Zucker has worked at the Museum of Modern Art in various capacities for over a decade and has published on Abstract Expressionism including “Confrontations with Radical Evil: The Ambiguity of Myth and the Inadequacy of Representation,” in Art History (June 2001). He received the 2005 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the University’s most prestigious teaching prize. Dr. Zucker earned his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.