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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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The VALA2004 keynote speakers,
drawn from the USA, France and China, were selected for their expertise and
work with major projects of significant interest and their understanding
of current key issues. Together with an impressive range of local and overseas
speakers reporting on innovative projects and topics of current importance,
they will ensure that the conference provides a wide vision of emerging
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Hal
Abelson
Hal Abelson is Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He
is winner of several teaching awards, including the IEEE's Booth Education
Award, cited for his contributions to the teaching of undergraduate computer
science. 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.. Abelson is
a founding director of the Free Software Foundation and of Creative Commons.
He also serves as consultant to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. At MIT, Abelson
is co-director of the MIT-Microsoft Research Alliance in educational technology
and co-head of MIT's Council on Educational Technology. He is also active
in MIT's OpenCourseWare and DSpace (institutional digital archiving)
initiatives.
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Lorcan
Dempsey
Lorcan Dempsey is Vice President, Research,
at OCLC. He participates in the Strategic Leadership Team of OCLC and oversees
the work of OCLC Research, a major library research and development unit.
Before coming to OCLC Lorcan worked for the JISC in the UK, where he oversaw
several national programmes, and at UKOLN, a national research and policy
unit. He was the founding co-director of the Resource Discovery
Network.
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Catherine
Lupovici
Catherine Lupovici is Head of the Digital
Library Department, Direction des Services et des Résaux,
Bibliothèque Nationale De France. This department covers digitisation
services, the Gallica online digital library, the Internet/Intranet co-ordination
services and the pilot projects for long term preservation of digital collections
and web archiving.
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MacKenzie
Smith
Mackenzie Smith is the Associate Director
for Technology at the MIT Libraries, where she oversees the Libraries' use
of technology and its digital library research program. She
is currently acting as the project director for DSpace, MIT's collaboration
with Hewlett-Packard Labs to develop an open source Institutional Repository
for scholarly research material in digital formats. She was formerly
the Digital Library Program Manager in the Harvard University Library's Office
for Information Systems, where she managed the design and implementation
of the Library Digital Initiative, and also held positions in the library
IT departments at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Her background
and research interests are in applied technology in libraries and academia,
and digital libraries in particular.
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Herbert
Van De Sompel
Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in
mathematics and computer science at Ghent University and, in 2000, obtained
a PhD there for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking,
now commonly known as the OpenURL framework. From 1982 to 1998 he worked
as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1999, Herbert
spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While
at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archive Initiative with Paul Ginsparg
and Rick Luce. During the academic year 2000/2001, Herbert was visiting
fellow in Computer Science at Cornell University, working in the Digital
Library Group, and teaching Computing Methods for Digital Libraries.
Afterwards, he was Director of e-Strategy and programmes at the
British Library. Now he is back at the Los Alamos National Laboratory,
doing Digital Library research and prototyping. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert
forms the Executive of the Open Archives Initiative, responsible for
the publication of of the Santa Fe Convention (2000) and Open Archives Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting (2001 & 2002). The OpenURL is the subject
of a NISO standardization process, and Herbert serves on the NISO Committee
charged with taking on that effort.
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Wu Jianzhong
Dr. Wu Jianzhong is Director of the
Shanghai Library and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information
of Shanghai (ISTIS, merged in 1995). He serves on the IFLA Governing Board
(2001-2005) and as editorial member of Libri, Library Management and Lifelong
Education and Library (Japan). Being multilingual, Dr. Wu communicates readily
with other professionals in three languages: English, Japanese and Chinese,
and has given many lectures at professional conferences in China and abroad.
He has published 8 books and over 100 papers on various
topics.
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