New Paradigms and Parallels

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Archived as of May 1, 2006

As of September 18, 2000 confirmed attendees include:

Prof. Ang Peng Hwa

Vice-Dean, School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University
Conference co-chair

Prof. Ang specializes in law and policy issues regarding the Internet. He has consulted for government and private bodies in Singapore, as well as international agencies such as the United Nations Development Program, in law and policy issues regarding the Internet. He is a member of the Legal Subcommittee of the National Internet Advisory Committee of Singapore, dealing with the development of a privacy code for online content providers. He also is a legal advisor to the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore.

Prof. Robert Anderson

Head, Information Sciences Group, RAND
Professor, RAND Graduate School

Prof. Anderson has written widely on information security, and is co-author of a RAND reports on Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications (RAND,1995) and Sending Your Government a Message: E-mail Communication Between Citizens and Government (RAND,1999)

Prof. Tora Bikson

Chair, Human Subjects Protection Committee, RAND
Professor, RAND Graduate School

Prof. Bikson holds Ph.D. degrees in philosophy and psychology. Her most current research is represented in a co-authored RAND book titled Sending Your Government a Message: E-mail Communication Between Citizens and Government (RAND, 1999). She has co-authored three other recent books addressing related issues: Teams and Technology (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1996); Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications (RAND, 1995); and Preserving the Present (Sdu Publishers, The Hague, 1993). Her work is also represented in numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Prof. Kai-wing Chow

Associate Professor of History and East Asian cutlures and Languages, U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Associate Curator, Spurlock Museum, U. of Illinois

Prof. Chow is a specialist in Chinese intellectual and cultural history. He is finishing up a book on the impact of printing on literary production and politics in sixteenth and seventeenth century China. The book is tentatively entitled Publishing, Culture, and Power in Late Imperial China, 1550-1700.

Prof. Michele Cloonan

Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
Co-Proprietor, Doe Press

Prof. Cloonan has written extensively on the preservation of knowledge.

Prof. Jeffrey Cole

Director, UCLA Center for Communication Policy
Professor, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA

Prof. Cole is heading an international project on the Evolution and Impact of Personal Computers and the Internet. He has lectured widely, and regularly consults with governmental leaders throughout the world on communications issues.

Prof. Diane Davis

Asst. Professor, Rhetoric, U. of Iowa

Prof. Davis is interested primarily in the ways in which abiding assumptions about identity and sociality are denaturalized in the shift to digital communications technologies and the new (multi-linear) literacies they require.

Prof. James Dewar

Senior Mathematician, RAND
Professor of Public Policy, RAND Graduate School
Conference co-chair

Prof. Dewar has written widely on strategic planning and wrote The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead, the paper that spawned this conference.

Paul Duguid

Research Associate in Social and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Consultant at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Mr. Duguid is the author of several articles on learning, working and design and is recent co-author (with John Seely Brown) of The Social Life of Information.

Prof. Elizabeth Eisenstein

Professor Emerita, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Prof. Eisenstein is the author of the seminal The Printing Press as as Agent of Change and is a recognized expert on the social impact of the printing press in Europe.

John Gehl

President, editor and publisher, NewsScan
Editor, Ubiquity ( http://www.acm.org/ubiquity )

Prior to forming NewsScan, ( http://www.newsscan.com ) Mr. Gehl was a consultant to Educom, a Washington-based nonprofit organization focused on information technology in higher education. For a number of years before that, he held administrative and research positions at Georgia Tech and Spelman College.

Dr. Charles Grantham

Founder, Institute for the Study of Distributed Work
Visiting Research Fellow, Fisher Center for Management and Information Technology, UC Berkeley

Dr. Grantham has over 20 years business experience in product development and market research in both the computer and telecommunications industries. He is widely published in technical journals. He has held faculty appointments at several universities and also served on the boards of several start-up software companies, and is a founder of the Association for Software Design.

Dr. Richard Hundley

Senior Physical Scientist, RAND

Dr. Hundley has written widely on technological futures and is currently leading a RAND project on "The Global Course of the Information Revolution."

Prof. Wonsuk Kang

Assistant prof., School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University

Prof. Kang specializes in issues of information policy and media regulation. His research focuses on regulation and policy issues involving broadcast content, as well as policy issues concerning media regulation by the US Congress and the Federal Communications Commission. He has also worked in radio broadcasting and as a producer.

Prof. Christopher Reed

Assistant Professor, Chinese History, Ohio State University

Prof. Reed is a specialist in the history of modern China. His dissertation, "Gutenberg in Shanghai: Mechanized Printing, Modern Publishing, and their Effects on the City, 1876-1937," combined the history of technology, business and politics in the study of modernization in China's largest city.

Prof. Everett Rogers

Regents' Professor, Dept. of Communication and Journalism, U. of New Mexico
Professor, Nanyang Technological University (2000-2001)

Prof. Rogers is best known for his book, Diffusion of Innovations (Free Press, 1995). He has also written on Marshall McLuhan and Edward T. Hall and their mutual influence on the meaning and consequences of literacy and other media (Journal of Mass Communication, January, 2000).

Prof. Jonathan Rose

Founding president, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)
Professor of History, Drew University
Co-editor of the journal Book History

Prof. Rose directs the graduate program in Book History at Drew. He has two forthcoming books: The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (University of Massachusetts Press) and The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes: An Audience History.

Prof. Mark Rose

Professor and Department Chair, English, UC Santa Barbara

Prof. Rose has published books on subjects ranging from Shakespeare to Science Fiction but most relevant for the conference is his study of the early history of copyright in Britain, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Harvard UP, 1993). He also frequently serves as an expert witness in litigation involving allegations of copyright infringement.

Prof. William H. Sherman

Associate Professor of English, U. of Maryland
Director of the English Honors Program, U. of Maryland

Prof. Sherman is a specialist in the textual culture of early modern Europe--especially the transition from manuscript to print culture and the practices of readers and collectors in the Renaissance. He is the author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance.

Prof. Larry Sullivan

Chief Librarian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Professor, Criminal Justice, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY

Dr. Sullivan has written widely on the history of reading, the book, and information technology as social and behavioral control mechanisms. Among his published works are the books The Prison Reform Movement: Forlorn Hope, and Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks.

Prof. Michael Suman

Research Director, UCLA Center for Communication Policy
Lecturer in Communications Studies, UCLA

Prof. Suman teaches communications at UCLA and is involved in the landmark UCLA study on the evolution and impact of personal computers and the Internet.

Prof. Daniel Traister

Curator, Research Services, Annenberg Library, U. of Penn. Adjunct instructor, Department of English, U. of Penn.

In addition to his duties as Curator, Prof. Traister teaches courses on the history of books and printing. He has written on literature and history, and librarianship; he has lectured widely; and has served in a variety of professional associations.

Prof. Richard Watson

Professor of MIS, Univ. of Georgia
Director, Center for Information Systems Leadership
Senior editor, MIS Quarterly

Prof. Watson's current research interests are electronic commerce, information systems management, and the relationship between national culture and MIS. He has written voluminously on those topics and has authored books on data manatement and electronic commerce.

Prof. Wayne Wiegand

Professor, Library and Information Studies, U. of Wisconsin-Madison
Co-Director, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America

Prof. Wiegand has written widely on print culture in modern America. He has won numerous awards for scholarship and teaching; has lectured widely; and has served in a variety of professional associations.