AISTI Third Annual Miniconference Biographies (in alphabetical order):

Stephen Abram was named by Library Journal as one of the Top 50 librarians in 2002 who are shaping the future of libraries and librarianship. He is the Vice President of Corporate Development at Micromedia ProQuest which is Canada's largest electronic publisher. Abram's role is to be responsible for the long term development of their successful print, microform, CD-ROM, intranet and web-based news, periodical, directory, corporate, engineering and government information publishing lines. Stephen was 1992 Member of the Year for the SLA Toronto Chapter. He was made an international Fellow of SLA in 1995. In 1998, he was CASLIS Canadian Special Librarian of the Year. In June 1999, he was awarded the prestigious SLA Management Leadership Award. In June 2000, he was presented with the SLA Public Relations Member Achievement Award in Philadelphia. In June 2001 Stephen received the Alumni Jubilee Award from the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. He has also managed libraries, marketing and information resources for Hay Management Consultants, Coopers & Lybrand as well as positions with the Canadian law firm Smith, Lyons, Torrance, Stevenson, & Mayer, and Suncor. He has also held positions nationally and internationally for many information industry and librarian organizations, including the Special Libraries Association (SLA), Canadian Library Association (CLA), Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services (CASLIS), Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC), and The Electronic Rights Licensing Association (TERLA). Abram is currently president of the Ontario Library Association.

Don Beagle is the Library Director at Belmont Abbey College, NC. Beagle has over 20 years of library management experience in both public and academic library systems. As an Informed Strategies Associate, he is the resident guru and advisor on issues related to Information Commons, an integrated digital platform. In this platform a wide variety of resources can be accessed from any workstation, and a physical workspace designed to create a continuum of service delivery for the identification, retrieval, manipulation, and presentation of information in many formats. Since receiving his A.M.L.S. (University of Michigan 1977) where he was awarded the Hopwood Writing Award, Don's career has been marked by technological and service innovation. In the 80's, he introduced desktop publishing on one of the first library-purchased Macintoshes in the US. In 1989, his Hypercard stack, "Search Key," was distributed by OCLC Microcomputing as a prototype graphical user interface for ILL. Shortly after the introduction of the World Wide Web, Don received an Apple Library of Tomorrow Grant to create the Charleston Multimedia Project, showcased at the 1996 National Community Networking Conference in Taos, NM.

Tim Bray is a a 20-year veteran of the software industry, who is widely recognized as an expert in the problems of searching and retrieving information from large textual databases. In 1987. Bray managed the New Oxford English Dictionary Project at the University of Waterloo. He was charged with developing an indexing technology that could put the contents of the Oxford English Dictionary online, and make it searchable. In 1989, he co-founded the Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) where he developed high-performance text retrieval software. In 1994, he introduced what would become one of the first commercial Web search engines. In 1998, he co-invented Extensible Markup Language (XML), which has become the universal format for structured documents. In 1999, he founded Antarcti.ca Systems Inc., a pioneer developer of data visualization technology. The company's products are based on visual mapping techniques that enable users to navigate complex databases of information easily across multiple databases and formats. In 2001, he was nominated by Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web and Director of the Web Consortium, to the Consortium's Technical Advisory Group, which serves an architectural oversight function for the Web.

Roger Frye lost a game with a computer in 1948 and has been fascinated with them ever since. After two undergraduate jobs testing and programming computers, he received a Bachelor of Science In Electrical Engineering (Princeton, 1964) and began his career working for software companies and computer manufacturers. He implemented network protocols on the first ARPANET switches at Bolt, Beranek and Newman and later on LISP Machines and the Connection Machine. At Thinking Machines, he used massive parallelism to solve several seemingly impossible problems in discrete mathematics. At Boston University, he developed tutorials and labs in scientific computing and benchmarked supercomputers. He has consulted to Los Alamos National Laboratory, doing automobile traffic planning and simulation. In 1997 Frye began working with Roger Jones through Intelligize! and then with Complexica in 1999, developing business simulations and statistical analyses on personal computers.

Henry Jerez received his Bachelors of Science in Systems Engineering at the Private University of Bolivia. He later worked for the university as Chief of Telecommunications, and adjunct faculty. During this time he directed the technological deployment of the first full duplex real time. He was responsible for the first draft of the Bolivia Internet 2 project at the Private University of Bolivia. Jerez received a Master of Science in Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. He currently works as part of the prototyping team at the LANL Research Library, and as technical coordinator for the ISTEC Chips N Salsa Project.

Rebecca Koch is the owner of Rebecca Koch & Associates which provides management consulting in the areas of strategic planning and development to local and national not-for-profits. Clients have included the National Foundation for Functional Brain Imaging, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is a former President of the Board of New Mexico Literary Arts and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Think New Mexico and the Action Alliance for Women's Health.

Rick Luce is the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is an information technology pioneer internationally known for the cutting-edge digital library at Los Alamos. Rick was appointed Project Leader of the "Library Without Walls" digital library program in 1994 and he received a Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award in 1996. The Library Without Walls was the first digital library program to deliver large-scale databases via the web (1994), interactive personal alerts (1995), and content linking (1996). Rick holds numerous digital library and electronic publishing positions, including Senior Advisor for Max Planck Society™s Center for Information Management, the Executive Board of
NISO, the UC Digital Media Innovations Program and Course Director of the International Autumn School on the Digital Library and E-Publishing in Geneva. He is a co-founder of the Open Archives Initiative and the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information consortium.

Johann van Reenen is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He is currently the Director of the Centennial Science and Engineering Library and of Public Services for the University of New Mexico library system. Van Reenen is also the Director of the Library Linkages Program of the Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium. He has a Masters degree in Science and in Information & Library sciences. He is a distinguished Member of the "Academy of Health Information Professionals" and has published numerous articles and chapters in books and regularly speaks at international conferences. His current interests include opportunities to reinvent the scholarly publishing process and the development of electronic information products and services for local clients and for Latin American science libraries.