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Daniel E. Atkins <atkins@umich.edu>
Professor, School of Information; Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Executive Director, Alliance for Community Technology; The University of Michigan
Daniel E. Atkins earned a B.S. in electrical engineering with honors from Bucknell University in 1965, an MSEE and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1967 and 1970, respectively.
From 1992-1998 Dr. Atkins was the founding Dean of the University of Michigan School of Information (SI) – a new graduate school stressing professional education and research from a socio-technical perspective in information and collaboration system design, use, and analysis. SI is now also the home for the UM research team on distributed knowledge-work environments. SI is regarded as one the first – and perhaps the boldest – of a new genre of "information schools" now being create at other leading universities.
In 1998 he left the deanship to focus on initiatives in the area of technology mediated knowledge environments, especially for science research and education. Also, with major support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, he is building a new organization, the Alliance for Community Technology (ACT), as a strategic partnership of academia, social investors, and community-based organizations. The mission of ACT is to explore and empower the effective application of emerging information and collaboration technologies in non-profit organizations and under-served communities. ACT is, for example, helping create virtual library federations for tribal colleges, exploring the expansion of international educational options in southern Africa through collaboratory technology, exploring topics of more sustainable IT infrastructure for under-resourced organizations, and a variety of "digital divide/inclusiveness" issues.
Dr. Atkins is active in National Academies of Science activities in exploring the role of IT and the future of the research university and is serving as chair of the National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. He serves as a consultant to industry, foundations, educational institutions, and government.
Leonard D. DuBoff <lduboff@dubofflaw.com>
Practice Areas:
Business, Art, Intellectual Property (Copyright, Trademark, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Patent Litigation, Licensing), Corporate, Real Estate & High-Tech Law, Commercial Litigation
Education:
• Brooklyn Poly Tech (AAS, 1964)
• Hofstra University (BES, magna cum laude, 1968)
• Brooklyn Law School (JD, summa cum laude, 1971)
Bar Admissions:
• New York (1972)
• Oregon (1977)
Ron Smith <rsmith@mma.mass.edu>
Professor Ronald Smith is a Professor of History at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, one of the nine state colleges, where he has taught since 1972. Professor Smith is also an adjunct Professor in the History Department at Bridgewater State College, MA. and at Western New England College. Beginning in 1998 Professor Smith began to incorporate online content into his courses and later integrated computer and Smart Board presentation technology into his survey lectures. His most recent innovation has been to utilize historical simulations based upon the Napoleonic wargames Austerlitz and Waterloo, produced by Breakaway Games, Inc., into his Western Civilization survey course. He has presented papers and demonstrations about technology issues in higher education at numerous conferences, including the American Historical Association, the American Association for History and Computing, the New England Historical Association, the League for Innovation, the International Association of Maritime Universities, and individual colleges and several technology fairs. Professor Smith lives in Sandwich, MA. with his wife, Cristina.
Ken Westin <webmaster@pacificu.edu>
Ken Westin is currently the Web Manager for Pacific University. Prior to working for Pacific he was a project manager for Eye Velocity where he worked on web and interactive projects for clients such as Ford, Dodge and Subaru to name a few. He received his BA from Lewis & Clark College and continued his web development education at Portland State University and has also studied abroad in Japan at Waseda University in Tokyo and Hokusei Gaku-en in Sapporo.
Ken recently received Macromedia's "Site of the Day" for his recent work on Pacific's "News & Events" pages and will be continuing to sharpen Pacific's web presence over the next year in collaboration with a team of esteemed marketers, designers and developers from all over the US and the Pacific community.
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