• Dr. Walter Baer
• Ms. Marjory S. Blumenthal
• Senator Debra Bowen

• Dr. Louis Gomez
• Dr. John Ober
• Dr. Mitch Resnick

• Dr. Vint Cerf
• Dr. Mary Jane Irwin
• Dr. Richard Muller
• Dr. Ramesh Rao
• Dr. Nambi Seshadri

• Dr. John Dracup
• Dr. Ted Huller
• Dr. Bruce Kutter

Public Policy/Government

Dr. Walter Baer
Rand, Senior Policy Analyst

Dr. Baer is Senior Policy Analyst in RAND's Science and Technology Division. His current research centers on implications of the Internet and related information technology developments for higher education and electronic commerce. He also analyzes other public policy and business implications of communications, information and educational technologies.
He has published widely in the fields of media, communications, information technology, energy, and science and technology policy.

Dr. Baer serves as Vice-Chair of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference and as a member of a National Research Council panel studying the evolution and future impacts of the Internet. In 1994 he was appointed to the Governor's Council on Information Technology for the State of California. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he chaired the Industrial Science Section, and a member of the International Institute of Communications and other professional societies. He currently serves on the IEEE Committee on Communications and Information Policy and the Editorial Board of Telecommunications Policy, as well as on the Advisory Boards of the U.S. Committee for the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, the Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information, CALSTART, the Los Angeles Learning Center Network Project and The Children's Partnership. He is a Trustee of the KCRW Public Radio Foundation.
Dr. Baer holds a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Wisconsin, where he received a special award for excellence in teaching. He also was selected as a European Community Visitor by the Commission and Parliament of the European Communities.

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As its Executive Director, Marjory Blumenthal manages the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council - a 20-member Board of leaders from industry and academia - and its many expert project committees and staff. She designs, develops, directs, and oversees collaborative study projects, workshops, and symposia on technical, strategic, and policy issues in computing and telecommunications. These activities address trends in the relevant science and technology, their uses, and economic and social impacts, providing independent and authoritative analysis and/or a neutral meeting ground for senior people in government, industry, and academia. Marjory is the principal author and/or substantive editor of numerous reports and articles. The majority of her work has been interdisciplinary.
Before joining CSTB, Marjory was Manager, Competitive Analysis and Planning for GE Information Services. There she directed an analytical team supporting business development, product marketing and field sales and developed business alliances for domestic and international network services. Previously she was a Project Director at the former U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, evaluating computer and communications technology trends and their social and economic impacts. There, among other things, she produced an internationally acclaimed study of computers in manufacturing and their implications for industries and employment.
Marjory is a member of the Santa Fe Institute Science Board, the Advisory Board of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the TPRC Board of Directors, the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, and the ACM, AEA, and IEEE. In 1998 Marjory was a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science. At MIT she developed and taught a course on public policy for computer science graduate students and pursued personal research interests. Marjory did her undergraduate work at Brown University and her graduate work (as an NSF Graduate Fellow) at Harvard University.

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Senator Debra Bowen
53rd Assembly District, Senator

Working to "make government make sense" by providing accountability in government and reducing the state's overlapping bureaucracy are just two areas Assemblywoman Debra Bowen (D-Torrance/Marina del Rey) has focused on since first being elected to represent the 53rd Assembly District in November 1992. The district stretches along the Pacific Ocean and includes the cities and communities of Torrance, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Lomita, Manhattan Beach, El Segundo, Venice, Marina del Rey, Playa del Rey, and parts of Mar Vista, Palms, Palos Verdes Estates, and Westchester.

Debra began a long history of community activism by getting involved with her local Neighborhood Watch program.She started her own law firm in 1984, specializing in small business start-ups and tax law. Later, the practice expanded to include land use and environmental issues where Debra represented both businesses and community groups.

A 1976 graduate of Michigan State University, Debra earned her law degree from the University of Virginia in 1979. She studied at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, on a Rotary International Fellowship, and was a CORO Fellow in the Community Invest program.
During her first four years in office, Assemblywoman Bowen has concentrated her attention in the following areas:

• Political Reform. Assemblywoman Bowen has authored five comprehensive campaign finance reform measures to limit the influence of special interest contributions. After all of her efforts were defeated in legislative committees, she co-authored Proposition 208, which was approved by the voters in November 1996, to create such a reform measure.
• Opening Government To The People. She authored AB 1624, which unlocked the Legislature's computer files, giving computer users worldwide instant access to information about bills and legislators' voting records. Debra has also authored bills to try and give people computer access to California's public records.
• Applying Business Management To State purchases. California spends roughly $1 billion each year on computer and information technology with minimal oversight. Debra has authored bills and held committee hearings to bring a "business management" philosophy to these purchases, providing budget oversight and forcing the state to look at the bottom line before spending precious taxpayer dollars on multi-million dollar projects.
• Protecting California's Environment. Debra has been a leader in the fight to protect California's precious environment. She has fought to defeat efforts aimed at gutting the state's landmark recycling programs, reducing the state's drinking water standards, and much more.
  Assemblywoman Bowen is the chairwoman of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, and also holds seats on the Assembly Budget, Banking & Finance, Environmental Satety & Toxic Materials, Higher Education, and Water, Parks & Wildlife Committees.

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Education

Dr. Louis Gomez
Professor of Education & Social Policy, Northwestern University

Research Interests:
Curriculum design and systemic school reform; school and classroom organization support through technology; application of computing and networking technology to teaching and learning; applied cognitive science; human-computer interaction.

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John Ober
Education & Strategic Innovation, Director

As Director of Education and Strategic Innovation, John Ober coordinates education, evaluation, and communication programs that increase understanding of and innovation in digital resources. Identifies and enables the pursuit of new tools, services, content, and programs that contribute to the mission and goals of the CDL in the mid to long-term future.

Collaborates with Digital Library Services staff and public service staff at each campus to foster independent and successful use of the CDL and encourage an environment of continuous learning for CDL staff and partners. Coordinates outreach and communication of CDL goals and activities to a variety of audiences. Develops an understanding of the needs of CDL patrons and their use of CDL resources via evaluation activities such as needs assessments, surveys and focus groups. With the Digital Libraries Technology unit and the Strategic Innovations Working Group, coordinates partnerships with the digital library research community and identifies opportunities for experimentation and the transfer of new technologies.

John has broad experience and knowledge in librarianship, teaching, and computer technology. Most recently, he was the Development Librarian for Electronic Resources for the Center for Science, Technology, and Information Resources/Library Learning Complex, California State University (CSU), Monterey Bay. In this position, he coordinated the technological infrastructure for the Library, as well as strategic planning and development for the Library academic program, and the collection of electronic primary sources. Previously, he served as the Acting Director, Library Systems, at UC Berkeley, where he was responsible for the operational and strategic management of the UC Berkeley Library Systems Office and acted as project manager for several digital library projects. He was also a Network Resources Librarian at UC Berkeley.

As an Instructor at CSU Monterey and an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, John has taught courses on database management, networks and networked information, and the management of information technology. He has worked with various faculty and university committees at both institutions, given numerous presentations on digital resources, computer technology in libraries, and user training, and has written several articles and book chapters.
John received a B.A. in English/Philosophy from Bowling Green State University, an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Houston, an M.L.I.S. in Information Systems Management from UC Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Systems Management, also from UC Berkeley.

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Mitchel Resnick
Lifelong Kindergarten Group - MIT Media Lab, Director

Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Associate Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. His goal is to help people (particularly children) learn new things in new ways. Resnick's research group has developed new technologies (including LEGO programmable bricks and StarLogo software) that engage people in new types of design activities and learning experiences.

He co-founded the Computer Clubhouse, an award-winning network of learning centers for youth from under-served communities. Resnick earned a BA in physics at Princeton University (1978), and MS and PhD degrees in computer science at MIT (1988, 1992). He worked for five years as a science/technology journalist for Business Week magazine, and he has consulted widely on the uses of computers in education. Resnick was awarded a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1993. He is author of the book Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams.

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Technology Industry

Vinton Cerf
WorldCom, Sr. Vice President for Internet Architecture and Technology

Vinton G. Cerf is senior vice president of Internet Architecture and Technology for WorldCom. Cerf's team of architects and engineers design advanced networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.
Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet.
Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI).

As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. He completed his term as founding chairman and continues to serve as a member of the Internet Societal Task Force and its steering group that focuses on making the Internet accessible to everyone and analyzing international, national and local policies surrounding Internet use. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf has served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) since 1997. Cerf is a principal for the Global Internet Project (GIP), and he sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library, Gallaudet University, the MCI WorldCom Foundation, Nuance Corporation, Avanex Corporation, CoSine Corporation, 2BNatural Corporation, B2B Video Networks, the Internet Policy Institute and the Hynomics Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.

In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."
In addition to his work on behalf of WorldCom and the Internet, Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict." He also made a special guest appearance in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Casper Weinberger. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.

Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; and Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain.
His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.

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Dr. Mary Jane Irwin, Distinguished Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Mary Jane Irwin received the M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in computer science from The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Irwin has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1977. She is an active member of several professional computing societies and is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. In 1996, she was elected to a two-year term as Vice President of ACM, The Association for Computing Machinery. She served as the general chair of the 1996 Federated Computing Research Conference and the 36th Design Automation Conference.

Dr. Irwin co-leads (with Drs. Narayanan, Kandemir and Sivasubramaniam) a researh team focused on the development, implementation, and evaluation of new energy-aware computing systems. Power consumption is especially important in a mobile computing environment where the energy consumption of the wireless devices (e.g., portable computers, PDAs) in their tasks of communication with the base station, compilation and computation determines battery life. Power consumption is also becoming an increasing concern in teathered server environments due to the costs of power delivery and cooling and to the impact of high operating temperatures on system reliability. Their research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the MARCO Gigascale Silicon Research Center, the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, Sun Microsystems, and Intel Corporation.

Research Interests:
Computer Architecture, VLSI Systems Design, Embedded and Mobile Computing Systems Design, Electronic Design Automation

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Richard S. Muller
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), Director

Richard S. Muller received the degree of Mechanical Engineer (with highest honor) from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1955. With support from Howard Hughes and NSF Fellowships at the California Institute of Technology, he earned MS/EE and Ph.D. degrees in 1957 and 1962, respectively. In 1962 he joined the EECS faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.

His initial research and teaching on the physics of integrated-circuit devices led to collaboration with Dr. T.I. Kamins of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, in writing "Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits," (Wiley, 1977, 2nd edition 1986) Dr. Muller changed his research focus in the late 1970s to the general area now known as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and he joined in 1986 with colleague Prof. Richard M. White to found the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), an NSF/Industry/University research center. Professor Muller has been awarded: NATO and Fulbright Research Fellowships; an Alexander von Humboldt Senior-Scientist Award; the UC Berkeley Citation (1994); Stevens Inst. of Technology Renaissance Award (1995); the Transducers Research Conference Career Achievement Award (1997), the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (with Roger T. Howe, 1998) and an IEEE Millennium Medal (2000). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE/ASME JMEMS Editor-in-Chief (since 1998), a Trustee of the Stevens Institute of Technology, past member of the NRC National Materials Advisory Board, and on the board of the Transducers Research Foundation. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 technical papers and of 16 patents.

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Ramesh Rao
San Diego Division California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Director

Ramesh R. Rao was born in Sindri, India in 1958. He did his undergraduate work at the Regional Engineering College of the University of Madras in Tiruchirapalli, obtaining a BE (Honors) degree in Electronics and Communications in 1980. He did his graduate work at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, receiving the MS degree in 1982 and the Ph. D. degree in 1984.

Since then he has been on the faculty of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he is currently Professor and Director of the San Diego Division of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology. His research interests include architectures, protocols and performance analysis of wireless, wire line and photonic networks for integrated multi-media services.

Prior to his appointment as the Director of the San Diego Division of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2), he served as the Director of the UCSD Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) and was was the Vice Chair of Instructional Affairs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His activities within the University of California include contributing to the creation of UC Communications Research Program (CoRe), the UCSD Extension Certificate Program in Communications and coordinating the last two cycles of the ABET accreditation of the UCSD Electrical Engineering program. His activities within the IEEE Information Theory Society include serving as the Publications Editor ('99 to present), Web Editor ('95 to '99) and Newsletter Editor ('93 to '95). He also contributed to the IT Digital Library effort as well as the 1990 IT Symposium and the 1998 IT Workshop, both held in San Diego. He has been twice elected to serve on the Information Theory Society Board of Governors ('97 to '99 and '00 to '02).

Professor Rao is the Editor for Packet Multiple Access of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and is a member of the Editorial Board of the ACM/Baltzer Wireless Network Journal as well as IEEE Network magazine. He has guest edited a special issue of the Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal on "Advances in Wireless Systems," a special issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication on "Multi-media Network Radios" and a forthcoming special issue of the Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications journal on "Energy-Conserving Protocols In Wireless Networks." He served as the Technical Program Chair of the 1997 International Conference on Universal Personal Communications(ICUPC 97). He regularly serves as a member of the Technical Program Committees of conferences such as MOBICOM 2000 and INFOCOM 2001 and as a reviewer for agencies such as the National Science Foundation.
His research activities have been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, the TRW Corporation, the Astroterra Corporation as well as the Industrial Affiliates of the Center for Wireless Communications. He has also consulted extensively for Government agencies and industry. He recently served on a US Government panel to review the current status of research, development, and applications in wireless communications in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe with a view towards evaluating the competitive status of U.S. efforts.

Since 1984, Professor Rao has authored over 100 technical papers, contributed two book chapters, conducted a number of short courses and delivered invited talks and plenary lectures. He is currently supervising eight doctoral students

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Nambi Seshadri (S'81-M'82-S'85-M'86-SM'95) received the Bachelors degree in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Madras, India, in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1984 and 1986, respectively.
He was a distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT\&T Bell Lab- oratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and now heads the Communications Research Department at AT\&T Research in Florham Park, NJ. His area of technical interests includes coding and modulation, diversity techniques, and reliable transmission of audio-visual signals over wireless channels.
Dr. Sashedri is an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY.

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Applications

Theodore L. Hullar
Cornell University Center for the Environment, Director

Dr. Hullar is presently the Director of the Cornell University Center for the Environment and a professor of natural resources. He has more than 25 years of experience in dealing with environmental and water issues. Dr. Hullar began his academic career at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1964 and initially joined the Cornell faculty in 1979.

He then rejoined the Cornell faculty in 1997 following his service as Chancellor of the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Riverside. Dr Hullar is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and holds both Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Hullar has extensive New York State and national experience in dealing with complex environmental and water issues. He served for four years as a Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (1975-1979) and prior to that as commissioner of environmental quality in Erie County, New York (1974-1975). He is a member of the Board of Governors of New York Sea Grant. He has been chair and member of several National Academy of Science panels and boards on environmental issues and is currently a consultant to the Department of the Navy on environmental assessment and to the Environmental Protection Agency on research futures. He is currently coordinator and chair of the National Water Initiative, a partnership among universities, government and the private sector for advancing research and application of research to key national water issues.

Dr. Theodore L. Hullar was appointed to the International St. Lawrence River Board of Control on September 26, 1999. After careful consideration of all the names put forward, the six IJC Commissioners selected Dr. Hullar as the best qualified candidate to serve in the interests of the entire Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River system and to fill the needs of the Board at this time, particularly the need for environmental expertise.

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Bruce L. Kutter
Center for Geotechnical Modeling, Director

Professor Kutter specializes in soil mechanics, centrifuge modeling, and geotechnical earthquake engineering. In soil mechanics, he has worked on laboratory testing and constitutive modeling of deformation, strength, cyclic and rate dependent behavior of soils. In centrifuge modeling, he has participated in the development of earthquake simulation facilities for four different geotechnical centrifuges.

One of the most recent facilities is the servo-hydraulic shaker for the 9 m radius centrifuge at UC Davis. While the centrifuge spins at 50 g, this earthquake simulator can shake 3-ton payloads with base accelerations of 15 to 20 g at frequencies of 20 to 200 Hz. Professor Kutter has used the centrifuge as a research tool on a wide variety of problems. In geotechnical earthquake engineering Professor Kutter is conducting research involving physical and numerical modeling of seismic soil-pile-structure interaction, reinforced soil retaining structures, liquefaction, lateral sliding, and methods for liquefaction remediation.

Professor Kutter is Director of the Center for Geotechnical Modeling, an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, which coordinates geotechnical modeling activities and manages the UC Davis Geotechnical Centrifuge facilities. He serves on the Board of Directors of the California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREe), and on the Steering Committee of the TC-2 subcommittee on Centrifuge Testing of ISSMFE (Int. Soc. Soil Mech. and Foundation Eng.). In 1992 he was the recipient of the Hogentogler Award presented by ASTM for an outstanding paper on soil or rock.

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