AISTI Fifth Annual Miniconference Biographies (in alphabetical order):

Biographies (in alphabetical order):

Richard Ackeroyd - was recently named State Librarian in New Mexico. Before coming to the State Library, Mr. Akeroyd was the Director of Library Programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation His responsibilities included managing the U. S. Library Program that focused on contributing to closing the digital divide through providing public access computers and Internet connectivity to public libraries serving communities in poverty in the US, managing the Native American Access to Technology Program (NAATP) , development and oversight of the Foundation's International Library Program making grants to support technology integration in public libraries in the UK, Canada, Chile, and Mexico and establishment of the International Access to Learning Award. To date, awards have been made in Finland, Argentina, Guatemala, Colombia, and South Africa. Prior to joining the Foundation, he served as the State Librarian of Connecticut for 11 years, and prior to that, held positions at the Denver Public Library, the National Commission on Library and Information Science, and the University of Connecticut Library. He was also on the planning staff for the first White House Conference on Library and Information Services (WHCLIS) held in 1979, and co-chaired the Second WHCLIS held in 1991. Mr. Akeroyd has a BA degree in English Literature and Political Science from the University of Connecticut, and his Master of Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Stephen Abram has over 25 years in libraries as a practicing librarian and in the information industry. He is Vice President of Innovation for Sirsi Corporation (http://www.sirsi.com). His most recent role was as vice president of corporate development for Micromedia ProQuest. Abram's other roles include publisher for Thomson and Carswell and director of Information Resources for the Hay Group. He is a frequent keynote speaker on issues that affect libraries, their communities, and librarians. Abram was named by Library Journal in 2002 as one of the key people who are influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He is the incoming 2004-5 president of the Canadian Library Association and was President 2002 of the Ontario Library Association. He has also served on the International Board of Directors of the Special Libraries Association. Abram is a Fellow of SLA; and, in June 2003, he was awarded SLA's highest honor, the John Cotton Dana Award. In 2001, Abram was presented with the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies Jubilee Award.

Johan Bollen is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science department of Old Dominion University, which he joined in 2002 after working at the Active Recommendations Project of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library since 1999. His work focuses on the study of user behavior in digital information systems and its applications to scientometrics and recommender systems for digital libraries. His main interests are the application of social network theory to issues of DL impact ranking and the determination of research trends from large-scale usage patterns.

Robert Eisenstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1942 and was educated at Oberlin College, receiving the AB degree with high honors in physics in 1964. He received the PhD degree in experimental nuclear physics from Yale University (under the direction of Charles Bockelman) in 1968. He continued his studies at the Weizmann Institute from 1968 to 1970 as a post-doctoral research fellow. He then joined the physics faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, where he remained until 1984. At that time he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign, where he served as Director of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory for several years. In 1992 he moved to the National Science Foundation as Director of the Physics Division. In 1997 he left the Physics Division to become NSF's Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Science. In the 2002 academic year he took a sabbatical leave at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. In June of 2003 he assumed the presidency of the Santa Fe Institute. Eisenstein received a Weizmann Fellowship to support his post-doctoral research, and has enjoyed sabbaticals at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF, 1974), at the University of Pittsburgh (1983), and CERN (2002). In 1979 he received the Ryan Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from Carnegie Mellon. His teaching experience ranges from courses in high-school level physics to graduate level quantum mechanics. His most recent research interests concern various issues in high energy physics and in the applications of information theory to problems in physical science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of Sigma Xi.

Bill Jensen has spent the past decade studying business's ability to design work. He is an internationally-acclaimed author and speaker who is known for provocative ideas, extremely useful content, and his passion for making it easier for managers and employees to work smarter and accomplish extraordinary feats. His first book, Simplicity, has been hailed as a "breakthrough in the design of communication and understanding," and was the Number 5 Leadership/Management book on Amazon in 2000. His next, Work 2.0, took the People vs. Profits debate to a whole new level. His latest book is Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More. Bill has 25 years of experience in communication and change consulting, and holds degrees in Communication Design and Organizational Development. He's CEO of The Jensen Group, whose mission is to make it easier to get stuff done. Among the Jensen Group's clients are Merck, Bank of America, Pfizer, Duracell, NASA, The World Bank, Walt Disney World, American Express, the US Navy SEALS, Kaiser Permanente, Singapore Institute of Management, Guangzhou China Development District, and the Swedish Post Office.

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 School on the Digital Library and E-Publishing for Science and Technology in Geneva. He is a co-founder of the Open Archives Initiative and the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information consortium.

Neal D. Shinn is the Manager of the Surface and Interface Science Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, and the interim Outreach Coordinator for the DOE Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a nanoscale science research center being developed jointly by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories for the U. S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Shinn earned a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. Thereafter, he was a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His post-doctoral research involved the elucidation of surface reaction intermediates using vibrational and electronic spectroscopies in conjunction with thermal and stimulated desorption. In 1985, he joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff. His research focuses upon the formation and dynamic properties of self-assembled monolayers and ultra-thin fluid phases on solid surfaces. He has been a visiting scientist at the National Synchrotron Light Source and was elected Chair of its Users Executive Committee. Dr. Shinn is also an Adjunct Professor in the Physics Department of Utah State University, where he conducts collaborative research on bi-metallic interface electronic structure using synchrotron radiation spectroscopies. He has over 80 technical publications and is a member of the Board of Directors of the AVS Science & Technology Society.

Tudor I. Oprea, M.D., Ph.D., graduated as general practitioner (M.D.) from the V. Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania in 1990. He holds a Ph.D. in molecular physiology from the same university (1992). He had pre- and post-doctoral appointents at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands), at Washington University in St. Louis and at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, prior to taking a position as research scientist at AstraZeneca R&D in Mölndal, Sweden (1996-2000). He served as Associate Director in Enabling Sciences and Technology at AstraZeneca R&D (2000-2002), where he was in charge of the compound collection enhancement. His work with Andy Davis, Simon Teague and Paul Leeson (AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood) on the properties of chemical leads motivated a major paradigm shift in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Oprea joined the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in August 2002, where he is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chief, Division of Biocomputing, at the same Department. In the area of cheminformatics, he has published one book (in Romanian), nine book chapters, more than thirty-five peer-reviewed papers and one patent (with Johan Gottfries). He is the recipient of the 2002 Hansch Award from the QSAR and Molecular Modeling Society (www.qsar.org), and a member of the Board of the same Society. He serves as member of the scientific advisory board of two companies, and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling and for QSAR and Combinatorial Science.chusetts.

Wendy Seltzer - Seltzer is a Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. Prior to joining EFF, Wendy taught Internet Law as an Adjunct Professor at St. John's University School of Law and practiced intellectual property and technology litigation with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York. Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl).