AISTI Eighth Annual Mini-Conference :

Dr. Chaomei Chen is an associate professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University. His research areas include mapping scientific frontiers, information visualization, modeling and visualizing the evolution of scientific knowledge domains, and differentiating conflicting opinions. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Information Visualization (Palgrave-Macmillan) and the author of Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Springer 2004) and Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization (Springer 2003). He has published widely in scholarly journals and conferences. He is the creator of CiteSpace, a freely available Java application for visualizing emerging trends and patterns in scientific literature.

Linn Marks Collins leads the e-Science and Human-Computer Interaction Team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library in designing and developing visualization and collaboration tools based on models of human cognition and collaboration. Currently her team is designing and developing a system for collaboratively curating scientific datasets and an information visualization tool for facilitating activity awareness in research groups. She is planning projects on understanding the dynamics of knowledge and ideology diffusion in global information environments. She has designed and developed applications at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center and at MIT's Project Athena and has presented talks and tutorials at ACM, IEEE, and other conferences, including the ASIS&T 2006 Annual Meeting and the Fifth Semantic Interoperability in eGovernment Conference.

David Duncan is a principal at Innosight LLC, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations, governments, and businesses develop and commercialize breakthrough innovations. He has a particular focus on helping clients to gain a deep understanding of customer needs as a means of driving breakthrough innovation, and is a leader of the firm's knowledge development in this area. Prior to joining Innosight, David was a successful entrepreneur and spent four years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he led teams to solve problems for senior executives in a variety of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and high-technology. David graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University. He is the author of numerous scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals and has delivered numerous talks at scientific conferences.

Charles Dziuban is Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where has been a faculty member since 1970 teaching research design and statistics. His methods for determining psychometric adequacy have been featured in both the SPSS and the SAS packages. He has received funding from several government and industrial agencies including the Ford Foundation, Centers for Disease Control, and the National Science Foundation. He has published in numerous journals and has co-authored or edited numerous books and chapters on blended and online learning including Handbook of Blended Learning Environments, Educating the Net Generation, and Blended Learning: Research Perspectives. In 2005, Chuck received the Sloan Consortium award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual. In 2007, he was appointed to the National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Policy Council. Chuck received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

Meredith G. Farkas is the Distance Learning Librarian at Norwich University in Northfield, VT. In this position she has had the opportunity to implement many social technologies for use with her patrons and her colleagues. Meredith is the author of the book Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online (Information Today, 2007) and writes the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. She also is the author of the blog Information Wants to Be Free and contributes to the collaborative blog TechEssence. She is the creator of Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki as well as a number of national conference wikis. In March 2006, Meredith was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal for her innovative use of technology to benefit the profession.

Matthew Ferry is the Founder & CEO, Academy of Influence. Since the beginning of his sales career in 1989, he dedicated himself to mastering techniques of persuasion and influence. Matthew specializes in teaching salespeople how to become irresistible to their clients, and, as a one-on-one sales coach, has improved results for thousands of clients all over the world. His roster of clients includes some of the highest-paid agents, executives, and entrepreneurs in real estate, medical sales, entertainment and finance, among many, many others. Always a creative thinker looking for new ways to achieve dramatic results, he's a nationally known innovator of new techniques and methodologies and founded The Academy of Influence to share those techniques with others. Matthew has trained almost 10,000 people in his career, many of whom have gone on to become multimillionaires using the proprietary processes learned through the Academy.

James L. Hilton, Ph.D.is theVice President and Chief Information Officer and a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Dr. Hilton is charged with coordinating information technology-related activity. Prior to this appointment at U.Va., Dr. Hilton was a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Institute for Social Research and in the Psychology Department where he served as the Chair of Undergraduate Studies between 1991 and 2000. He is a three-time recipient of the LS&A Excellence in Education award, has been named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (1997-2006), and received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award. He has published extensively in the areas of person perception, stereotypes, and the psychology of suspicion. With Charles W. Perdue, he published "Mind Matters," a multimedia CD-ROM that combines text with interactive exercises and multimedia elements and places them in a navigational structure designed to nurture exploration. Dr. Hilton received a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Texas in 1981 and a Ph.D. from the social psychology program at Princeton University in 1985.

Corinne Lebrun is the Executive Director of AISTI. Year to year she collaborates with the AISTI Chairman and Board of Directors to develop a conference program that breaks the barriers of conventional thinking and embraces the future. She specializes in developing and implementing strategies that help business and organizations achieve their vision and goals. Coming from a business and financial management background, her love of cutting edge technologies, science and innovative thinking brought her to AISTI in 2000. She strives to bring a constant fresh approach to all of the AISTI endeavors. Aside from having pursued in-depth studies in psychology, physics, and mysticism, Corinne has an A.S. in Communications, a B.A.in Liberal Arts and advanced graduate studies in anthropology.

Lee Liming is a Technology Analyst at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. He and his team support a wide range of cyberinfrastructure/e-Science projects, spanning infrastructure (TeraGrid, Open Science Grid, Enabling Grids for e-Science across Europe), science (LHC Computing Grid, Earth Systems Grid, Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) and engineering (NSF's Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation). This team plays a leadership role in the open source Globus software community, which supplies software for many current Grid/e-Science activities. Lee has worked for seventeen years on distributed systems issues in both academia and industry, with experience ranging from research software development to commercial product and project management. Early Grid communities in which he participated included the NASA Information Power Grid, the ASCI DisCom program, and the National Computational Science Alliance. His earlier positions were at the University of Michigan School of Information and ProQuest Information and Learning. He currently leads portions of the NSF Middleware Initiative's GRIDS Center, the NSF-sponsored TeraGrid project, and the Globus software community.

Andrew J. Milne, Ph.D. is CEO of Tidebreak, Inc, a global leader for advanced interactive workplace technologies that accelerate team performance. Dr. Milne's expertise lies at the intersection of collaborative work practice, information technology, and interactive workplace design. From 2001-2004 he served as a co-investigator for the iRoom / iSpace project (a joint effort between Stanford University and Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology) where his research focused on developing collaborative spaces and post-desktop computing interface technologies to support distributed engineering design teams. Some of his prior research at Penn State University explored creative problem solving techniques suitable for engineering design contexts. Over the last 18 years Andrew has been innovating as a technologist, researcher, educator, and consultant. He earned a Ph.D in Engineering from Stanford University at the Center for Design Research.

Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. there. For many years, he was Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. After having left Ghent in 2000, he has been Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, and Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Currently, he is the team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Team does research regarding various aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age, including information infrastructure, interoperability, digital preservation and indicators for the assessment of the quality of units of scholarly communication. Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, the SFX linking server, and the info URI.

Johann van Reenen is an Associate Professor of Librarianship and Adjunct Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He is the Assistant Dean for Research and Instruction Services for the University Libraries. He is familiar with science and technology information consortia through his frequent chairmanship of the AISTI and as Director, for nearly a decade, of the Digital Library Linkages Program of the "Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium". Johann is a Distinguished Member of the "Academy of Health Information Professionals" and holds postgraduate degrees in Science and in Library & Information Sciences. He has published over 45 articles and chapters in books. He regularly speaks at international conferences and his current interests include opportunities to support the re-invention of scholarly publishing processes and the development of electronic information products for academic libraries. Since the mid-1990's he has taught workshops on "Risk taking and decision making in the electronic environment" and Leadership courses for librarian.