Track 1 — Information in Context

110 South Hall
Hosted by Yale Braunstein

Alex Milowski
Alex Milowski has been involved in the development of XML and SGML technologies since 1990 - starting with the development of SGML systems for producing EDGAR filings for the SEC. He was involved with the development of XML from the very start and participated on the W3C's committees for XSL and XML Schemas as well as many others. He's the author the of W3C Note on XML Messaging and co-author of W3C Note on SOX (Schema for Object-oriented XML). In 1995 he founded a company called Copernican Solutions--which developed SGML and XML technologies for software systems--and was later acquired, via Veo Systems, by Commerce One. Most recently, he was CTO for Markup Technology, a developer of XML pipelining technology. Currently, he is a member of the advisory board for the Center for Document Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and consults on applications of XML.

John Ober
John Ober is a founding co-director of the University of California's Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) where he facilitates planning, research, and policy development, and helps ensure that the ten-campus UC community is continuously informed about the challenges and opportunities in the scholarly communication environment. The OSC has a strong partnership with the California Digital Library, where John previously served as Director of Education and Strategic Initiatives and as interim Director of CDL Technologies. John serves as a member of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Steering Committee, and is co-chair of the U.S. Association for College and Research Library's scholarly communication committee. His previous experience includes positions as the Development Librarian for Electronic Resources at California State University, Monterey Bay, Acting Director of Library Systems at UC Berkeley, Network Resources Librarian at UC Berkeley, ALA Library Bookfellow in Benin, West Africa, and Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies. John holds Masters degrees from the University of Houston and UC Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Systems, also from UC Berkeley.

Rebecca Shapley
Rebecca Shapley is a User Experience Researcher at Google. Using a variety of HCI research improvisations based on her Masters from UC Berkeley's School of Information, she works closely with the Google Checkout operations and development teams to integrate information from real people's experiences into the notable success of this new development in web commerce. In her spare time, she works on innovations to searching for biological information online. Prior to graduate school, she developed highly-interactive multimedia science educational materials at the Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley. She feels quite a bit of excitement about being at a company with global reach, and is passionate about creating a good fit between people and the technology they use.

Track 2 — User-Centered Design

202 South Hall
Hosted by Nancy Van House

Bill Allison
Bill Allison is a Senior Manager in UC Berkeley's Information Services and Technology division. He runs the Web Applications unit that has over 60 projects in development and 100 applications in production including high availability e-commerce, business resumption, and course scheduling systems. He is also active on the campus information security governing committee, and the strategically focused "Student Systems 2012" Council. Prior to coming to UC, he led development for a grant and contract system at the University of Washington. He also spent ten years doing software development and management for the consulting industry. As a developer, architect and business owner, he worked on projects such as an Internet advertising management system, an online ticket sales system for the San Francisco Giants, and a USAID project prototyping a stock trading network in the former Soviet Union. He received his B.A. from Yale University.

Brian Hayes
Brian Hayes is a Director for Primitive Logic, a premier business and technology consulting Services Company with practices in business architecture, content management, service-oriented architecture, and infrastructure services. He served as a team leader, technical architect, and respected contributor to various OASIS and UN/CEFACT e-commerce specifications and documents. He specialized in e-business meta-models and XML business process schemas. He has even been an instructor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. He draws on 22 years of experience in software engineering, business requirements analysis, and software system architecture.

Pamela Whitney
Pamela Whitney is a Customer Research Manager in the Internet Services Group at Wells Fargo. Her team brings customer insights into the product development lifecycle through a range of research methods from usability and concept testing to ethnography. She has a master's degree from UC Berkeley's School of Information and is particularly interested in the way technology empowers "non-technical" people to manage their finances and also in the transition points within people's lives that pushes them to try doing things differently. Her goal is to regularly infuse projects with the perspectives and insights from research with real people.

Track 3 — Social Information Systems

205 South Hall
Hosted by Coye Cheshire

Paul Aoki
Paul M. Aoki is a research scientist at the Intel Research laboratory in Berkeley, California. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include mobile computing and communication systems, human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. At Intel, his work focuses on the design of technologies for emerging regions. Current projects include a system applying social networking concepts to telemedicine and an investigation of social interaction as a driver for mobile applications in emerging regions.

Simon King
Simon King is a research engineer at Yahoo! Research Berkeley. His current research focuses on context-aware mobile applications, location-based services and novel mobile interfaces. Simon received a MIMS degree from UC Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from Amherst College. Prior to graduate school Simon worked on web applications, database systems and content management systems for a variety of online publishing, entertainment and venture capital companies in the Bay Area.

Cathy Marshall
Cathy Marshall is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Corporation. Her research on personal digital libraries lies in the disciplinary interstices of computer science, information science, and the humanities. She was a long-time member of the research staff at Xerox PARC and is an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University. She has delivered keynote addresses at the WWW and Hypertext Conferences as well as at CNI and other library and information science venues. She has served as Program Chair for the IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (twice) and for the ACM Hypertext Conference. On her homepage you will find her publications, her blog, her contact information, and how she is related to Elvis.