AISTI Seventh Annual Miniconference :

Johan Bollen is a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library (Proto team) since January 2005 while on leave of absence from his position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University which he has held since 2002. He was a research assistant at the Modeling,
Algorithms, and Informatics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the period 1999 to 2002, after working as a researcher at the U. Brussels (Belgium). He obtained his PhD. in Experimental Psychology from U. Brussels (2001) on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has been funded by NSF, LoC, NASA and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present research interests are usage data mining, digital libraries and informetrics. He has extensively published on these subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems architecture.

Esha Datta is a recent graduate of the MLIS program from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently working at the Research Library in the Los Alamos National Laboratory where she is a graduate research assistant with the Repository Team. The team's primary focus is on digital preservation and access issues which coincides with her interests in digital libraries, information access, and the use of technology in information dissemination.

Brad Eden is Head, Web and Digitization Services, for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. He is editor of OCLC Systems & Services, is associate editor of Library Hi Tech and Journal of Film Music, and is series editor of the Routledge Music Bibliographies. He has a masters and Ph.D. degrees in musicology, as well as an MS in library science. He publishes in the areas of metadata, librarianship, medieval music and liturgy, and J.R.R. Tolkien. He recently edited Innovative Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services: Paths for the Future and Case Studies (Libraries Unlimited, 2004), and is the author of 4 Library Technology Reports for the American Library Association, including Metadata and Its Applications (2002), 3D Visualization Techniques (2005), Innovative Digital Projects in the Humanities (2005), and Metadata and Its Applications: New Directions and Updates (2005).

Douglas R. Fils is currently, the Director of Information Technology for CHRONOS <http://www.chronos.org>, a National Science Foundation Information Technology Research (ITR) grant working with semantic and SOA systems for cyber-infrastructure efforts in the geosciences. Douglas has worked in the field of software and system architectures ranging from distance education, computational clusters, software development and services. He obtained his experience by managing IT projects funded by the United Nations, U.S. Department of Energy, Electric Power Research Institute, and currently with the US National Science Foundation, through CHRONOS effort at Iowa State University.

Cary Mullen - Olympian, World Cup Champion and Canada's "Rudy on Skis," currently holds the World Downhill Speed Record for skiing 97 MPH (151 KMH) down the world's most famous ski course in Kitzbuhel, Austria. Cary was a non-prodigy, an underdog, who placed last in his first World Cup race. He followed a Process for Success™ to go from 'worst to first' and to ultimately become a two-time Olympian and World Cup Champion. Cary's quest to be the best in the world led him to research the drivers and determinants of human success and achievement. By studying top producers for over 20 years, Cary discovered an intentional process that the best in the world follow repeatedly. His Process for Success™ has benefited thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations in their pursuit of greater results. The WIN Factors™ along with other key strategies are all uncovered in his must-read book, HOW to WIN - Achievement, Success & the Results YOU Want.

Diana Northup has been studying things that live in caves since 1984. She has a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of New Mexico (UNM). She and her colleagues on the SLIME (Subsurface Life In Mineral Environments) Team are investigating how microbes interact with rock surfaces in caves and in desert varnish. Diana has been honored by having her work featured on NOVA. Currently, Diana blends the best of both worlds by teaching biology students information searching skills in Centennial Library at the University of New Mexico, where she is a Professor Emerita, and by actively researching cave microbial ecology using molecular and microscopy techniques. She is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Biology and guest lectures in various Biology courses and teaches a Freshman Learning Community, The World of Microbes. With the University of South Florida and the National Cave and Karst Research Institute, she and other UNM librarians are creating a Karst Information Portal.

Laura Robinson will graduate this Spring with her MLIS from the University of Washington. While finishing up her last year of school she has been simultaneously working as a graduate research assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library working on the Repository Team. She uses collaborative technologies both for school and work and is interested in digital preservation issues as well as how libraries can facilitate knowledge sharing.

Alexander Szalay is the Alumni Centennial Professor of Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He is the architect for the Science Archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He has been collaborating with Jim Gray of Microsoft to design an efficient system to perform data mining on the SDSS Terabyte sized archive, based on innovative spatial indexing techniques. He is leading a grass-roots standardization effort to bring the next generation Terabyte-sized databases in astronomy to a common basis, so that they will be interoperable - the Virtual Observatory. He is Project Director of the NSF-funded National Virtual Observatory. He is involved in the GriPhyN and iVDGL projects, creating testbed applications for the Computational Grid.

Roy Tennant is User Services Architect for the California Digital Library. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites , a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. His books include Managing the Digital Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial (1996), and Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook (1993). Roy has written a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal since 1997 and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.