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From Central American origin, Alvaro was born in Mexico City and lived also in Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala, before setting down in San José, Costa Rica. He started undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Physics in Guatemala before moving to Costa Rica, where he completed his Licenciatura degree in Computer Science at the University of Costa Rica, the largest state university in the country. Short after that he won a scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His doctorate thesis approached the problem of analogically adapting diagnostic experiences in the form of cases and heuristics to cope with different technical diagnostic environments.

After his promotion, Alvaro returned to Costa Rica to work as an Associate Professor for both the School of Computer and Information Sciences and the Graduate Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Costa Rica. He has since taught both undergraduate and graduate courses and tutored graduate theses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, case-based reasoning, computational paradigms and theoretical computing, as well as courses on informatics and society. More recently, Alvaro carries on research and outreach projects on the intersections of topics such as social cognition and multiagent systems, parallel and distributed computing, and computational simulation models.

He was appointed last year as Director of the National Collaboratorium for Advanced Computing (CNCA, for its Spanish acronym), part of the National Center for Advanced Technology Studies (CeNAT), an institution associated to all four Costa Rican state universities, founded to develop a sustained relationship between the academy, the industry and the community. CeNAT started cooperations with several US-based, German and Central American universities and centers two years ago with the goal of developing a national high-performance computing infrastructure to approach such regional problems as environmental risk and emergency management, community involvement and outreach, education both in STEM and HASS, and nanotechnology.

Bonnie Bracey Sutton is a teacher-agent of change, a mentor teacher who works with technology integration projects emphasing the use of technology as media , nationally and internationally.

A highlight of her career was to be the only classroom teacher appointed to the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council by President Clinton to work with Vice President Al Gore and the Commerce Dept. She served in this position for the duration of the council. She helped to author the two products of the council.

She was an instructor of the White House Initiative CyberED, which was a project that travelled the country working in empowerment and enterprise zones to teach the use of technology. She pioneered listserv projects with teachers, List Serv, NII Teach (University of Idaho) with a lot of help from friends.

She was one of two teachers who assisted in creating Technology and the New Professional Teacher: Preparing for the 21st Century Classroom (1997) http://www.ncate.org/accred/projects/tech/tech-21.htm

A former Fulbright Exchange Teacher in India and an elementary school teacher in Virginia, Ms. Bracey was selected as a Christa McAuliffe Educator by the National Education Association. In this position she created workshops and outreach for the use of technology , sharing educational technology integration ideas through the National Foundation for Education. www.nfie.org

She is also a Challenge Center Fellow and an Earthwatch Fellow. She serves on the faculty of the Challenger Center and is a NEWEST Graduate, Langley, and NEW graduate of Goddard Space Center. She has a special interest in science, math and technology use and creating learning landscapes. Her work in inquiry and innovation is reflected in the use of hands on projects, She has worked with NASA projects and outreach with NASA youth projects including the Young Astronaut program.

She collaborates with the NCSA, learning in workshops and outreach the new uses of Next Generation Internet. She is collaborating and studying in the areas of visualization and modeling, ubiquitous computing, and e-learning. She has a special interest in wireless initiatives, and immersive projects. Some of the work is shown at (www.eot.org, projects and resources.) She served on the advisory board for the George Lucas Educational Foundation for ten years, served as a fellow, and now does some outreach for the foundation. www.glef.org.

Bonnie Bracey Sutton is a specialist on the digital divide. She was one of 23 nationally known educators who discuss educational technology and diversity, provide historical and philosophical insights into digital divide issues and offer practical suggestions for teachers, administrators, and policy makers in the book, "Toward Digital Equity: Bridging the Divide in Education."

Toward Digital Equity helps educators understand the current state of technology in education and the Digital Divide&Mac226; what it is, how it emerged, current trends, and potential solutions. It discusses how schools acquire hardware, software, and connectivity, and why some schools experience such success in these endeavors while others are left heartbreakingly behind. Most importantly, it examines the most current research in the effectiveness of technology and pedagogy in diverse settings to make suggestions on how teachers can create powerful learning environments for all students. She participates with the NICI group in support of the Digital Equity portal. http://digitalequity.edreform.net.

She has worked with MIT in the Games to Teach project, and has streaming video lectures on the digital divide from MIT.

She also works internationally with Global Information Infrastructure initiatives as a consultant. In Athens, she worked with the ECTC to create the World Summit for Education, This was a three year project involving many kinds of media, which result in a conference with talent, and resources drawn from all over the world. There was an Agora project each summer. There were collaborations and attendance with the premiere film festivals for children such as Prix Jeunesse.

• Producer, with Thanassis Rikaki, High Technology Section of the Summit
• Producer, Project for the Indigenous
• Technology Resource Collaborator (media as a tool).

She has worked internationally in New Zealand, South Africa, Namibia, Tunisia, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Bonnie Bracey Sutton is a founding member of the Agora European Economic Interest Grouping, which focusses on media for children.

Charlie teaches computer science at Earlham College, a small liberal arts college in Richmond, IN. He has been teaching workshops for NCSI/SC Education for about 3 years. charliep@cs.earlham.edu

DIANA RHOTEN is the director of the Knowledge Institutions Program at the Social Science Research Council as well as the director of Virtual Organizations and Learning & Workforce Development for the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. Her primary research focuses on the social and technical conditions of interdisciplinary collaboration and the practices, processes, and products of integrative research and research training. She is particularly interested in the implications that geographically distributed and scientifically diverse networks pose for traditional research questions and institutions – particularly in light of the many emerging technological capacities before us. Recent publications can be found in Science, Nature and Research Policy. In addition to publishing in this arena, Diana also works with various universities, research organizations, and philanthropic foundations on the design and development of interdisciplinary research centers, integrative training programs, and collaborative grant making structures. For her work in this area, Diana was selected as a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (July 2005-June 2007), an award that honors individuals at the leading edge of science. Prior to coming to the Social Science Research Council, Diana served as an assistant professor at the Stanford University School of Education (1999-2003) and as the Research Director of the Hybrid Vigor Institute (2001 - 2003).

I am a long time Computer Scientist. I have been a member of ACM for 40 years. I am a Distinguished Lecturer for ACM and a fellow of the British Computer Science Society.

I have been at the University of Nebraska for 28 years. I have worked for Industry IBM, GE, World Bank, UN etc) and have consulted with over 150 organizations and entities. I have consulted on over 250 internal University projects over my years at the University.

I have been involved with was early called Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction and now Distance Learning. I have done considerable research on Learning Objects and the evolving role of SCORM as a standards tool.

I have worked with Plato and have done several computer courses based in teaching languages.

Today I teach Numerical Analysis (emphasis on Interval Arithmetic), Graphics, Computer Games, Cryptography and Steganography. I have taught courses in C++, JAVA and OO FORTRAN. I am very interested in my Bronx heritage. My family lived in the Bronx since about 1860. I also worked in Yankee Stadium for about ten years. I was a sports reporter for the New York Times and Herald Tribune, AP and UP. I had a by lined story in the New York Times last summer.

My wife and I have seven children and five of my boys are in the IT industry and work for IBM, NASA, Lucent, and Microsoft.

We have 21 grand children.

My hobby is rare book collecting...I am a Goodwill book hunter.

Jacque Caesar is an Associate Professor in the National University College of Letters and Sciences and an Associate Director in the NU Community Research Institute(NUCRI). Jacque is Lead Faculty for the Interdisciplinary Studies program and teaches in the Department of Social Sciences. She directs NUCRI's the Americorps program for teachers. As a community based researcher, she has been involved in developing a relational database (idataware) for a Family Resource Center collaborative which is currently being used as a model.

James J. Jaurez is a faculty member with National University’s School of Media and Communication. James teaches in the Master of Science in Education and Instructional Technology. A PhD candidate though Nova Southeastern University, James’ dissertation work is in Epistemic Game Creation in the discipline of Computing Technology in Education.

James’ Interests, Studies, and Background: Living in Pacific Beach, CA hobbies include surfing, racquetball, biking, and enjoying beautiful San Diego. Active in church at Calvary Temple in Hillcrest, CA, James participates in worship team, youth group, intercultural assembly, and men’s ministries. James would like to begin working on an inner city computer ministry for San Diego youth.

Jay is currently the Client Services Manager for IT in the Humanities at UCSC. He has been an academic IT professional for 12 years, the most recent 8 being with UCSC. His responsibilities there range from consulting, training & desktop support to system administration & instructional computing. His most recent adventure will be to install a HASS grid brick at UCSC and guide his faculty into this new realm of research & instructional technology for the Humanities.

Jeff is currently Educational Programmer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the UCSD campus. He works to promote the use of cyberinfrastructure within the K-12 and undergraduate education community through workshops, training, and curriculum development in collaboration with a talented group of co-workers and educators.

Jeff has extensive experience in education courseware development with emphasis on challenging concepts in science. He has published and presented work in such diverse areas as visualization of electrophyisological data, virtual reality technologies applied to neurorehabilitation, distributed medical intelligence, and instructional design of CD-ROM video-based case studies for pre-service teachers in math and science education.

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• Personal Home Page

Jerry is a returning student after many years as a software engineer. This fall, he is starting a computational linguistics PhD program at Louisiana State University. In general, he is interested in solving large problems through Internet collaboration. In particular, I am interested in natural language processing applications such as machine translation.

I'm Jessie Puls. I'm a graduate student at the University of Northern Iowa. That is all.

John Bonnett is an intellectual historian and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. His research interests include the writings of the communication theorist Harold Innis, and the emerging domains of history and computing and humanities and computing. Bonnett has published contributions in journals ranging from War in History to History and Computing and Literary and Linguistic Computing. He was the principle developer of the 3D Virtual Buildings Project, an initiative that had two purposes. The first was to teach students to generate models of historic settlements using 3D modeling software. The second more fundamental purpose was to develop the critical thinking skills of students by helping them to realize a fundamental point, that historical models need to be distinguished from the objects to which they refer. Bonnett is currently developing a lab devoted to the emerging medium of Augmented Reality (AR). AR, like Virtual Reality (VR), presents users with computer-generated 3D objects. It differs, however, in where it places those objects. VR places its objects in artificial environments that users perceive through a computer screen. AR places its objects in a user?s view of real space. For historians, it is a significant development because its suggests the possibility of generating life-size replicas of historic environments and displaying them in an open field, representations ranging from ancient Rome to 18 th century Paris to 19 th century Ottawa. If historians are to use this emerging medium, they will need to develop and test new conventions for narration, expression and documentation.

Kevin Franklin is Executive Director of the Illinois Center for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He was most recently Executive Director, University of California System-wide Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and a former deputy director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He serves as co-chair for the Humanities, Arts and Social Science Research Group for the Open Grid Forum and is a member of the Worldwide University Network Grid Advisory Committee. Dr. Franklin is a co-founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC).

Kevin Hunter is a recent graduate of Earlham College, a small (1200 students) liberal arts college in Richmond, IN. His has been working with the SC Education program since mid-2006, and will continue to be involved through 2009.

Kris was professionally trained as a numerical analyst, specifically writing mathematical software to solve Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations. She studied with Larry Shampine at the University of New Mexico 1981-1987 in Albuquerque. Kris was hired by San Diego State University in 1984 as their Numerical Analysis faculty. She worked with the San Diego Supercomputer Center, as any number cruncher would, and had the opportunity to develop a workshop for university faculty interested in teaching high performance computing to undergraduates in 1991 (A Workshop Named SUE [Supercomputing and Undergraduate Education]). In 1993, Dan Sulzbach at SDSC asked Kris to be part of an NSF grant to develop a workshop for teams of high school science teachers from San Diego county to support their exploration of Computational Science. STEP [Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program] won a Smithsonian Award and the high school teachers found extensive uses for the Wide World Web and the evolving tools of computational science. Kris led the Ed Center on Computational Science & Engineering at SDSU as part of NPACI, led by SDSC, with a focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration with faculty interested in incorporating computational science into their undergraduate curricula. Some of the key activities are highlight from the web page http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/ though the program is now concluded. Kris is now a Professor of Computer Science at SDSU and experienced a professional rebirth during summer 2006 due to developing an undergraduate curriculum in 3d Game Programming, using the Torque Game Engine from GarageGames. She credits John Seely Brown with helping her become comfortable with being a "digital immigrant", as compared to her current students who were "born digital". Some presentations:

Stewart, K., “3d Game Programming as a Computer Science Service Learning Curriculum for High School Science Courses”, ACM SIG CSE07, Covington, KY March 07. http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~stewart/PPT/stewart-ACMsigCSE07-3dProgServLearn.ppt

Stewart, K., "Assessment - A Partner for Curriculum Development - Useful Online Tools", SIAM-CSE Conference, Orlando Fl, 2005. http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/presentations/siamcse2005/stewart_cse05_SIAM.ppt

Curriculum and further details are available from her home page http://www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu

Margaret Corbit is director of the SciCentr.org program at Cornell University. She got into the metaverse through work as a science communicator at the Cornell Theory Center back in 1996. SciCentr is an outreach program that focuses on supporting a bridge community between K-12/community centers and higher ed--for a variety of applications. She specializes in Activeworlds, but is experienced with Croquet, Blaxxun, Cosmo (dating herself) and has recently been a guest author at terranova blog (http://terranova.blogs.com/), Home page http://www.tc.cornell.edu/~corbitm/. She is very interested in expanding the community now using the universe served at Cornell and also in building a consortium of educators interested in driving development of useful applications for the emerging Multiverse.net system and/or other "open source" virtual world systems.

Hello, I'm a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the English Department. I work with American Poetry and American Intellectual History and play with technology. I'm hoping one day these twin interests will make me money and will subsidize my lounging around foreign countries.

Ciao!

Richard is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as a graduate research assistant for Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata and previously with the ECHO DEPository Project. Prior to returning to his graduate studies, Richard served as the Operations Coordinator for the Collaborative Digitization Program (aka Colorado Digitization Project), which assisted libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage organizations providing online access to their collections.

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• Richard's personal blog
• Musematic blog

Simon Appleford received his Masters degree in Modern American History from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is currently Project Manager for the Illinois Center for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include the urban unrest of the 1960s and the intersection of history and digital technologies.

Stephen David Beck is the Area Head for the Human & Social World (HSW) focus area at the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University. He is also Director of the CCT Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies.

Dr. Beck holds a joint appointment between CCT and the LSU School of Music, where he is Professor of Composition and Computer Music. He received his Ph.D. in music composition and theory from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1988, and held a Fulbright Fellowship in 1985-86 where he was a researcher at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris, France. His current research includes sound diffusion systems, high-performance computing applications in music, and virtual music instruments, a system of interactive computer programs that extend and expand on the performance capabilities of acoustic instruments.

Stephen Truhon was born in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the College of the Holy Cross, his master's and doctorate in psychology at Michigan State University. He has taught at Michigan State University, Valparaiso University, University of Wisconsin Center, and Winston-Salem State University (20 years!).

He is currently assistant professor of psychology at Austin Peay State University with primary assignment at Fort Campbell.

Although initially trained in developmental psychology, his current interests include industrial/organizational psychology and military psychology. He has participated summer research for the military at Armstrong Laboratory (Brooks AFB, TX) and at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (Patrick AFB, FL).

He has participated in previous education programs sponsored by SC in 2002 and 2003.

Ted Liu (ted@humanities.ucla.edu) is the Foreign Language IT Coordinator @ UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities. He works to promote and support the use of technology in language learning and teaching.

Thomas MacCalla (tmaccall@nu.edu)is a National University Vice President and Executive Director of the NU Community Research Institute (NUCRI)in San Diego. Tom is a resource faculty member in global studies and interdisciplinary practice. He is a community environmental management researcher and an online curriculum developer for interdisciplinary studies and entrepreneurship education. He also is a Co-PI for the Integrated Community Services Data Management System (i-Dataware) for the National City Collaborative's Family Resouce Centers and PI of NUCRI's collaborative Project CIERRA (Cyberinfrastructure Education, Recruitment, Retention, Advancement) Corps organized to broaden participation in the STEM fields.

Tom Murphy (tmurphy@contracosta.edu) is a professor of Computer Science at Contra Costa College (CCC). He is chair of the CCC Computer Science program and is director of the CCC High Performance Computing Center, which supports both the Linux cluster administration program and the computational science education program. Tom has worked with the National Computational Science Institute (NCSI) since 2002. He is one of four members of the NCSI Parallel and Distributed Working group which presents several three to seven day workshops each year, helps coordinate the SC07-09 Education Program, and contributes to the Bootable Cluster CD software platform, the LittleFe hardware platform, and the CSERD (Computational Science Education Reference Desk) curricular platform.

His current experiment is to grow a computational science associates degree program via providing a HS applied computer science certificate program by extending his experience with a robotics program which has drawn HS students to the program. The applied computer science program will include animation, computer gaming and cluster based small group projects. Middle College High School is a HS co-located with CCC, which supplies a ready source of inquisitive minds.

Vic Sutton is a British journalist with long experience of ways to use information and communication technologies to promote economic and social development goals. He has worked with print, television, radio and on-line media and speaks fluent French, Italian and Spanish.

Born in China to missionary parents, Vic spent four years of his childhood in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

After completing his grammar school education in Britain, and before going to university, he spent a year at the College Alfred Saker in Douala, Cameroon as a volunteer teacher, giving lessons in English as a foreign language.

He then studied at Pembroke College, Oxford where he won a first-class honors degree in English language and literature.

While studying for his degree he also worked on a voluntary basis for the student-based educational and fundraising campaign then known as Third World First. After graduating he joined the organization to work full-time, to manage the work of the campaign in its third year, in Oxford, England. He headed a small team that increased the number of student donors to development charities from 20 000 to 30 000, and helped launch ‘The Internationalist’ as a free termly magazine to inform British students about development issues.

From there he joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, returning to London, England in 1976 to head the World Development Movement, a political lobby on North-South issues first set up by the British churches.

In 1979 he joined the international news agency IPS – Inter Press Service in Rome, Italy. Vic worked for nearly 20 years for IPS, first as journalist and editor, then as project manager, helping to build the IPS reporting and news distribution network in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean. He also managed IPS fundraising and relations with the donor community.

More recently Vic spent five years making television programs for broadcast in southern Africa, from a base in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Early in 2005 Vic relocated to Washington, DC where he is currently conducting research on the impact of new developments in technology on the digital divide.

I'm a Ph.D student in Applied Linguistic program at UCLA. My interest is in language assessment and corpus linguistics. I'm also working as an instructional technology consultant at Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA, helping humanities instructors and TAs use technology in their instruction.