03.05.07
Rice University’s 2007 De Lange Conference: “How Knowledge Will Be Accessed, Discovered, and Disseminated in the Age of Digital Information”
Fee: $35.
Date: March 5-7, 2007
Host: Rice University, Fondren Library, and Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI)
Site: Alice Pratt Brown Auditorium, Shepherd School, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, Texas
http://delange.rice.edu/conferenceVI.cfm
Rice University’s 2007 De Lange Conference: "How Knowledge Will Be Accessed, Discovered, and Disseminated in the Age of Digital Information"
Speakers:
* Steve Kessel, senior vice president, Worldwide Digital Media, Amazon.com
* Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science. President, emeritus, and Professor, emeritus, Stanford University. Former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
* Daniel E. Atkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
* Brewster Kahle, founder, director, digital librarian of non-profit Internet Archive. He helped start Thinking Machines
* William A. Wulf, president, National Academy of Engineering
* Michael A. Keller, Stanford’s University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Founder and Publisher of HighWire Press, and Publisher of the University Press
* Deanna B. Marcum, associate librarian for library services, Library of Congress
* John Seely Brown, author, Digital Age, was Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and directed its Palo Alto Research Center
* James Boyle, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law, and co-founder of Center for the Study of the Public Domain, was a founding Board Member of Creative Commons
* Harold E. Varmus, president, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, former director of the NIH, co-founder and chair of PLoS, and co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer.
* James Johnson Duderstadt, founder, Millennium Project and Neal Lane, among many others
