AISTI Third Annual Miniconference Biographies (in alphabetical order):

Biographies (in alphabetical order):

Stephen E. Arnold is an internationally renowned information technology expert who assists large government and private sector organizations in organizing massive undertakings. With a track record in the information industry as founder of household name databases, he has been instrumental in numerous successful business undertakings through his key role as technology advisor and designer. Mr. Arnold is a sought-after keynote speaker at information conferences all over the world, and never fails to predict the technologies that will drive future "information behaviors". A preview of Mr. Arnold's messages and insights can be had at www.arnoldit.com and www.xenky.com.

Leslie Barret draws on her distinguished 20-year career in the information services industry, Ms. Jacobs brings a unique combination of analytical and practical experience to Outsell. In her capacity as Vice President at Outsell, Ms. Jacobs is responsible for developing and managing a variety of client projects. She leads the development of services and analytical coverage in the Corporate, Credit and Financial (CCF) market sectors at Outsell, and also leads Outsell's research and analysis of corporate library best practices and of information professionals as a functional group of users. Ms. Jacobs holds an MBA from Bentley College, an MS from Simmons College, and a BA fro m the University of Massachusetts.

Larry Carver director of Library Technologies and Digital Initiatives at University of California Santa Barbara. He is responsible for all digital technologies supporting library services and processing; includes Director of MIL, Systems and the Alexandria Digital Library. Oversaw the building of the MIL data collections to more than five million data objects. He has developed industrial partnerships with hardware, software and other data archive resources. He has also put into operation the geospatial digital library Alexandria (ADL) and developed the concept for spatial data management as an extension of library service with a grant from the Keck Foundation and RLG in 1984.

Ulla deStricker is founder and president of deStricker and Associates and Ulla is known for her innovative approach and solutions in the digital library arena. Born and raised in Copenhagen, she studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at State University of New York before settling in Montreal in 1973. At McGill University she earned two Masters Degrees - American Literature and Library Science - and then had the privilege of serving as Assistant to the Dean of the latter faculty. In 1979 accepted a position with Micromedia Limited in Toronto (now a ProQuest company) and thoroughly enjoyed managing the Canadian office of DIALOG for most of the 1980s. After several other assignments at Micromedia - managing a for-fee business information service and setting up a CD ROM distribution centre - Ulla was recruited to head up the development of electronic publishing at Carswell Thomson Professional Publishing where she built and introduced to the legal marketplace a new online service before starting deStricker and Associates in 1992 http://www.destricker.com/.

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.

Linn Marks leads the Human-Computer Interaction team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library in designing next-generation digital library interfaces. Her focus is the design of user interfaces for large-scale systems based on models of human cognition. She began working on theoretical aspects of the problem in 1982 at Columbia University and on practical aspects of the problem in 1989 at MIT. Prior to working at LANL she designed and developed interfaces at MIT's Project Athena with the Visual Computing Group and at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center with the Exploratory Visualization Group, the Large-Scale Systems Group, the Image and Multimedia Systems Group, the End-User and Object-Oriented Technology Group, and the Interactive Media Project. She has taught interface design at ACM, IEEE, and IFIP conferences and at the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos, where she developed the Web Technologies Program. She earned her doctorate at Columbia University.

Michael L. Nelson received his B.S. (1991) in computer science from Virginia Tech and his M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (2000) in computer science from Old Dominion University. He worked at NASA Langley Research Center from 1991-2002. Through a NASA fellowship, he spent the 2000-2001 academic year at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In July 2002, he joined the Computer Science Department of Old Dominion University. His web site is at http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/.

Juan Pablo Paz is a staff member of the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is actively working on quantum information and computation. He has made important contributions to the understanding of the process of decoherence. This process isnot only of importance to explain the origin of the laws of classical physics from a fundamentally quantum substrate but is also one of the main obstacles quantum computers face. He received his Phd in physics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, working on quantum field theory and cosmology. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department of the University of Maryland and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He moved back to Argentina in 1994, where he joined the faculty of the University of Buenos Aires and later became the director of the Physics Department. This year, he returned to Los Alamos as a staff member to continue his research on quantum algorithms, quantum computers and the nature of the quantum to classical transition. He is a member of the quantum steering committee of the Quantum Institute at Los Alamos.

Herbert von der Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. 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 Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. During the academic year 2000/2001, Herbert was Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, working in the Digital Library Research 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 Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, doing Digital Library Research and Protoyping. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert forms the Executive of the Open Archives Initiative, responsible for the publication of the Santa Fe Convention (2000) and the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001 & 2002). The OpenURL is the subject of a NISO standardization process, and Herbert serves on the NISO AX Committee charged with taking on that effort.