Dr. Violeta Bulc

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Vibacom
House for
Business Solutions

Member of the Advisory Board for the development of Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford University
After a successful career at DHL Systems Inc. in Burlingame, California, Violeta Bulc moved to a director position of Carrier and International Operations in Telekom Slovenije. She continued as a cofounder and executive Vice President of Telemach, an alternative carrier based on cable technologies in Slovenia. She then founded Vibacom focusing on a long term sustainable growth of organizations (companies, NGOs, local communities) and creation of innovative management tools to ensure a value added creation on a long run. She is locally accepted as opinion maker for telecommunications and innovative business models.

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Glorianna Davenport

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Media Lab

Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory
Glorianna founded the Interactive Cinema group (1987-2004) in 1987 and most recently the Media Fabrics group that she directs. She holds a B.A. in English from Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Ma. and a M.A. from Hunter College in NYC.  Trained as a sculptor and documentary filmmaker, Ms. Davenport has achieved international recognition for her work in the digital media forms. Davenport's research explores fundamental issues related to the collaborative co-construction of digital media experiences, where the task of narration is split among authors, consumers, and computer mediators. Davenport's recent work focuses on the creation of customizable, personalizable storyteller systems which dynamically serve and adapt to a widely dispersed society of audience. In 2000 Davenport cofounded MediaLabEurope, a research partnership between the MIT Media Laboratory and the Government of Ireland where from 2000-2004 she ran the Story Networks Group.

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Bill Edwards

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Gov3 Ltd.

Bill Edwards is managing partner of Gov3 Limited in London United Kingdom. Gov3 Limited is a new strategic consultancy delivering unique expertise in the rapidly growing international e-government and transformation market. He is former director of e-Communications in the Office of the e-Envoy (OeE) in London, which works to get the United Kingdom online and ensure that the country, its citizens, and its businesses derive maximum benefit from the knowledge economy. Before working for the OeE, Mr. Edwards served the National Assembly for Wales where he was head of marketing and internal communications, and, before then, head of publicity for the Welsh Office. This followed a range of marketing and communications posts in both public and private sectors, which included heading the Enterprise Initiative advertising campaign at DTI, and the national Crime Prevention campaign at the Home Office.

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Prof. Hironori A. Fujii

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Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology
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Department of Aerospace Engineering

After graduating at the Department of Aeronautical Engineering in Kyoto University, Prof. Hironori A. Fujii was enrolled into a project to improve the educational system of the Tokyo Metropolitan College of Technology, in which he served as a lecturer in 1972, as an associate professor in 1975, and as a professor in 1985. In 1985, he became a representative chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering for a new Institution and the College changed its system and became the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology in 1986. He has been appointed as the chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering in 1990 and as the chairman of the Graduate Studies of the Institute in 1991.

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Prof. Borko Furht

Vision of Engineering in the New Global Economy

Florida Atlantic University
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Dr. Borko Furht is Chairman and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. He is the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory at FAU, funded by National Science Foundation. Before joining FAU, he was a vice president of research and a senior director of development at Modcomp, a computer company in Fort Lauderdale, an associate professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and a senior scientist in the Institute "Boris Kidric-Vinca", in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His research interests include multimedia systems and applications, video processing, wireless multimedia, multimedia security, video databases, and Internet engineering.

In this presentation, we discuss the trends in the new global economy with specific emphasis on computer industry and their impact on computer education. These new trends include globalization of science including software and hardware development, the emergence of integration of computing and life sciences, interdisciplinary trends, critical needs for making systems easy to use, on time and budget, and with adequate performance. We also discuss demands on future computer scientists and engineers to possess not only technical skills, but also communication, process, and organizational skills.

Alex Gofman

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Moskowitz
Jacobs Inc.

Vice President, Technology of Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.
A proven technology oriented leader and author in marketing focusing on new Market Research and Marketing technologies, methodologies, applications and product management. Co-author of Selling Blue Elephants book (Wharton Publishing, 2007), Mr. Gofman was also instrumental in inventing and implementing the technologies which led to Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award, ARF Research Innovation Award and The Market Research Council Hall of Fame Award. He is well known as a co-inventor of world-class marketing and market research technologies, as well as for the work in cross-science development in experimental psychology in the field of psychophysics and computer science. The architect of the award-wining Ideamap® family of products (Ideamap®, Ideamap.NET, Stylemap.NET, Videomap, Ideamap Wizard, etc.) as well as globally recognized brands as DesignLab®, ProductEngineer®, Concept Optimizer® and other MJI technologies.

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Prof. Felix T. Hong

Mozart, Tesla and Creativity

Wayne State
University

Felix T. Hong. M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of physiology at Wayne State University since 1977. He established the Molecular Electronics Track for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in 1988, and served as the Track Chair for four consecutive terms until he stepped down in 1992. He has also organized molecular electronics symposia for the Fine Particle Society (1988), and the Bioelectrochemical Society (1992). He has served on the panels of several federal agencies on matter related to molecular electronics and nanotechnology research. He currently serves on the editorial board of the following journals: Advanced Materials for Optics and Electronics, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, and BioSystems. He was recipient of the Victor K. LaMer Award (American Chemical Society, 1976).

In the previous century, psychologists and cognitive scientists made repeated attempts to demystify the creative process of scientific geniuses with only modest success. The speaker accidentally found that it is possible to understand the common thought process of Mozart and Tesla by combining knowledge in cognitive science and basic concepts of artificial intelligence.

Mirko Ilic

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Mirko Ilic corp.

After achieving a noted success in illustration for prestigious Croatian magazines and newspapers, Mirko Ilic moved to New York, where in the first week upon arrival his illustration appeared on the cover of Time. He was a freelancer for most of his career, but also worked as Art Director at Time and the New York Times. He is most known for his success in visual identity innovation of some of the most conservative newspapers. He is owner of Mirko Ilic Corp., a creative studio for graphic design, 3D and computer graphic.

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Jacqueline Karaaslanian

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Media Lab

Director of Special Projects at the MIT Media Laboratory
Jacqueline Karaaslanian was born in Yerevan, Armenia, and received her education in France, specializing in foreign languages. She joined the Centre Mondial in Paris at its inception in 1981 as the project administrator for the Chief Scientist Seymour Papert, and she has worked with Papert and his scientific team ever since, developing pioneering education and technology projects around the world. In 1983 she joined the founding team of the Media Lab at MIT. She works at the Media Lab as a group manager and director of special projects for the Future of Learning Group. Jacqueline's focus is to evolve, elaborate, and propagate new models of learning, in various cultural settings, that fit the needs of the digital age.

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Prof. Mario Kovac

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Prof. Mario Kovac is a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, and member of the Technology council of the Ministry of science, education and sports. He received a number of awards and scholarships including the Fulbright Scholarship award, VLSI and Computer Architecture Scholarship. His main interests are A/V compression algorithms, smart cards and their applications, next generation multimedia application and data system architecture. Prof. Kovac is team leader for a number of successful Croatian and international commercial projects.

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Prof. Branko Kovacevic

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University of
Belgrade

Rector of the University of Belgrade
Prof. Kovacevic holds an MSc and a PhD from the Electro-technical Faculty at the University of Beograd. He has worked at the Mihajlo Pupin Institute's Laboratory for computer technology, and the Military Technical Institute's Laboratory for control and management. He was visiting professor at He served as Dean at the Electro-technical Faculty and was elected Rector of the University in 2006. He was visiting professor at universities in the United States, Finland, Iraq and Libya. He is author of 300 scientific papers.

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Prof. Miroslaw Malek

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Humboldt University Berlin
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Computer Architecture and Communication

Prof. Miroslaw Malek holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, both from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is professor and holder of the Chair in Computer Architecture and Communication at Humboldt University in Berlin since 1994. Prof. Malek's research interests focus on dependable architectures and services in parallel, distributed and embedded computing environments. He was a Visiting Scientist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY and at Italian National Research Center (CNR) in Pisa and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and New York University and held the IBM Chair at Keio University in Japan.

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Dr. Linda Naimi

The Unintended Consequences

Purdue University

Dr. Naimi is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership at Purdue University and a practicing attorney at law. Dr. Naimi has more than twenty years of experience in government, university administration and corporate management, having served as an information technology director at Harvard University, state technology program director in Connecticut and university vice president in New Jersey and Texas. She has a strong track record in building and funding collaborations, having received more than $20 million in grants and sponsored initiatives to support change in business and industry, international collaborations, and educational institutions. Recent research has been in the areas of ethical leadership, promising developments in organizational change, and effective global supply chain management. Dr. Naimi holds five earned degrees: a doctor of jurisprudence (law) from the University of Connecticut; Masters and Doctoral degrees from Harvard University in Administration, Planning and Social Policy; a Masters degree from the University of Alabama, and a baccalaureate degree from the University of Cincinnati.

of Technological Innovation: The Case of e-Commerce and Cultural Change
In the late 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton rocked the scientific world on its heels with the publication of one of the most influential scientific books ever written, the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton, 1687). In this seminal work, Newton distills the complex principles and interactions of motion and gravity, laying the foundation for the laws of physics as we know them today. In the elegant axioms that follow, Newton revealed the intricate relationships between cause and effect, matter and energy, and action and reaction.

Prof. Hirosato Nomura

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Kyushu Institute of Technology

Prof. Hirosato Nomura holds a PhD (Dr. Eng.) and teaches Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. He is a professor at the Department Artificial Intelligence and has held a large number of lectures and presentations on a plethora of AI and linguistics related subjects, mainly in India, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, Germany, New Zealand, China and Singapore.

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David Nordfors

Innovation Journalism

Stanford Center
for Innovations
in Learning

Senior research scholar at Stanford University
Program director of the innovation journalism program at Stanford
David Nordfors has a Ph.D. in molecular quantum physics from the Uppsala University, where he was recruited as a Ph.D. student by Prof. Kai Siegbahn (Nobel Prize in Physics 1982). He was a postdoctoral researcher in theoretical chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, supported by a grant from the Swedish Natural Research Council NFR. Dr. Nordfors founded and leads the Swedish Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program, and is Special Advisor to the Director General at VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems. He suggested the concept of "Innovation Journalism" in October 2003. He was Director of Research Funding of the Knowledge Foundation, KK-stiftelsen, one of the largest Swedish research foundations. There he constructed the research funding programs and designed the policies and strategies for information dissemination. He headed a seminal project on technological incubators with support from the Swedish government, which was supported in several bills in the Swedish parliament. He initiated and headed the first hearing about the Internet to be held by the Swedish Parliament.

While innovation is the driver of economic growth and societal change, the processes of innovation are not well covered in the news. Traditional newsrooms are vertical organisations. The traditional newsbeats - like business, technology, science and political journalism - look only at certain aspects of innovation processes and ecosystems. Innovation is treated as a topic within each beat, and the bigger picture is chopped up to fit into a specific news slot, usually technology or business journalism. This is one reason to why public decision makers tend to focus on traditional policy issues, often marginalizing crucial issues surrounding innovation. Innovation Journalism (Injo) is journalism covering innovation processes and innovation (eco)systems. The process of innovation itself is the central concept, treating business, technology, politics etc. as nested components of a news story. This presentation will go into the relation between journalism and innovation, presenting the Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford, run by the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning and VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems.

Kunle Olukotun

Designing Computer Systems for eBusiness

Stanford University
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Department Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Kunle Olukotun is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and he has been on the faculty since 1991. Olukotun is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS). Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems; the Afara microprocessor technology, called Niagara, is at the center of Sun's throughput computing initiative. Niagara based systems have become one of Sun's fastest ramping products ever. Olukotun is actively involved in research in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems. Olukotun currently co-leads the Transactional Coherence and Consistency project whose goal is to make parallel programming accessible to average programmers. Olukotun also directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas.

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Yale N. Patt

eContent: Static vs. Dynamic

University of Texas
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering
Yale Patt is a teacher at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also does research in microarchitecture and has consulted for microprocessor manufacturers for more than 30 years. He (with his PhD students) has been responsible for a number of innovations which are now taken for granted in most high-end microprocessors. HPS (at Micro-18 in 1985) was the first comprehensive microengine to introduce wide-issue, aggressive branch prediction, speculative out-of-order execution and in-order retirement to preserve precise exceptions. His two-level branch predictor, introduced at Micro-24 in 1991, has been adapted to just about every high end chip since Intel's Pentium Pro in 1995. Much as he enjoys research and consulting, Professor Patt's first love is teaching. He teaches the required freshman intro to computing to 400 students every other Fall, and the advanced graduate course in microarchitecture to PhD students every other Spring. Always the focus of his teaching is on understanding the fundamentals. He has earned the appropriate degrees from reputable universities and has received more than enough awards for his research and teaching. More detail is available at www.ece.utexas.edu/~patt.

In Education, it makes a huge difference
In Education circles there is quite a large preoccupation with developing eContent, even though from where I sit, most eContent, while not at all content-free, is of minimal value. I have some thoughts on why that is true and what can be done about it. 

Tin Radovani

From broadcasting to…?

BBC
World Service

Tin Radovani was educated in Croatia, Slovenia and US. He joined BBC World Service in 1994, working first as a producer and then as an editor. He is currently working as a strategy analyst for the BBC's Global News Division.

web 2.0 and its more refined eventual follow up web 3.0 are promising to bring unprecedented levels of audience engagement and are redefining public space in which media companies are operating. From re-evaluation of the key elements of public service broadcasting like trust and impartiality to changes to content production/commissioning systems and news agendas, so called, traditional (one way) media outlets have to adapt to this newly shaped landscape and rethink their role and purpose in it. But if, on the other hand, some of the web 2.0 entities with their increasing capability for content aggregation are starting to blur the line between broadcasting and engaging, where does that leave the relationship between audiences and media (new and old)?

James Wallbank

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Lowtech Ltd.

James Wallbank is an artist and free technology activist. James also directs the art & technology group Redundant Technology Initiative at Lowtech Ltd - a unique company which exists where technology, creativity and learning meet. Unlike many commercial entities its prime object isn't to make money - rather, it's an attempt to find a new, more positive way to engage with the ever changing and potentially divisive world of information communication technology. Lowtech is a leading advocate of universal access to low or no-cost information technology - and we have the strategy to make that possible! www.lowtech.org

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Oscar Wolff

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University of
Nyzny Novgorod
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Department of Innovative Psychoanalitics

Oscar Wolff is a Professor of Psychoanalytics at the University of Nyzny Novgorod. He is well known for his significant contributions to the innovative reinterpretation of the Oedipus complex, on which subject he wrote many research papers. His interests involve ethics of human behavior and existential angst. He is the author of several books in the area od neurolinguistic programming through yoga that quickly became best-sellers in the wider Siberian region.

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