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"Embracing the Changing Learning Environment"
October 28-31, 1997
Minneapolis, MN
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Eli M. Noam

Eli M. Noam
Opening Keynote Address

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Author of "Electronics and the Dim Future of the University," published in the October 1995 issue of Science, Eli M. Noam is professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. For further information see http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/citi

Biography of Eli M. Noam

Eli has also served as Public Service Commissioner engaged in the telecommunications and energy regulation of New York State. His publications include over a dozen books and about 200 articles on domestic and international telecommunications, television, information and regulation subjects. His recent books include Telecommunications in Europe (Oxford, 1992); Television in Europe (Oxford, 1992); Telecommunications in the Pacific Basin, ed. (Oxford, 1994); Asymmetric Deregulation, ed. (Ablex, 1994); and The International Market in Film and Television Programs, ed. (Ablex, 1993). Forthcoming books are Telecommunications in Africa; Interconnecting the Network of Networks; and The Last Bottleneck of the Information Revolution: Competing for Attention Span. He served as a board member for the federal government's FTS-2000 telephone network, of the IRS' computer modernization project, and of the National Computer Lab.
Professor Noam received an AB (1970, Phi Beta Kappa), a PhD in economics (1975) and a JD law degree (1975) from Harvard University. He is a member of the New York and Washington D.C. bars, a licensed radio amateur Advanced Class, and a commercially rated pilot.

Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle
Readership Skills in a Culture of Simulation

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Biography of Sherry Turkle

Born in New York City, Sherry Turkle did her undergraduate work at Radcliffe college, studied with the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and received a joint doctorate in Sociology and Personality Psychology from Harvard University in 1976. She is a graduate and affiliate member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and a licensed clinical psychologist.

Dr. Turkle has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture and on the "subjective side" of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She is the author of Psychanalytic Politics; Jacquest Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (Basic Books, 1978; MIT Press paper, 1981; second revised edition, Guilford Press, 1992) and The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Simon and Schuster, 1984); Touchstone paper, 1985). Her most recent research is on the psychology of computer-mediated communication on the internet. This work is reported in Life on the Screen: Identify in the Age of the Internet, Simon and Schuster, November 1995. It was featured in the January 1997 issue ofWired, in the November/December 1995 The Sciences, and the Winter 1996 American Prospect. Dr. Turkle was featured on the cover of the April 1996 Wired and the February/March 1996 Technology Review.

Dr. Turkle has pursued her work on the computer culture with support from the National Science Foundation and the Macarthur Foundation. She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. In January 1985, she was named one of MS Magazine's "Women of the Year" for 1984. She was selected for Esquire Magazine's 1985 Registry of "America's New Leadership Class." Her work on computers and people have been widely written about in both the academic and popular press, including Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, People, and USA Today. She has spoken about the psychological and cultural impact of the computer as a guest on numerous radio and television shows including Nightline, The Today Show, 20/20, and CBS Morning News, Dateline, CBS Evening News and The Jane Pauley Show.

Dr. Turkle is Professor of the Sociology of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, seehttp://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu /user/s/t/sturkle/www/index.html

John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow
Closing Keynote Address

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Biography of John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
He was born in Wyoming in 1947, raised on the family ranch there and educated in a one-room schoolhouse. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with an honors degree in comparative religion in 1969.

In 1971, he began operating the Bar Cross Land and Livestock Company, a large cow-calf operation in Cora, Wyoming. He continued to do so until he sold it in 1988.

He co-wrote songs for the Grateful Dead from 1971 until their demise in 1995.

In 1990 he and Mitchell Kapor founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which promotes freedom of expression in digital media. He continues to work closely with EFF and currently serves as its Vice Chairman.

He was the first person to use William Gibson's science fiction term "Cyberspace" in its contemporary sense, referring to the social space that already existed inside the world's telecommunications networks. Prior to his assigning it one, the virtual world did not have a name and was not generally recognized to be a place at all.

He is a writer and lecturer on subjects relating to the virtualization of society and is a contributing editor of numerous publications, including Communications of the ACM, Microtimes, and Mondo 2000. He has been a contributing writer for Wired and George since their first issues.

He is a commentator on computer security, digital cash and commerce, digitized intellectual property, and the social and legal conditions arising in the global network of connected digital devices. He also works as a consultant on these matters with the Vanguard Group of CSC, the Global Business Network, and Diamond Technology Partners.

He is probably the only former Republican Country Chairman in America willing to call himself a hippie mystic without lowering his voice, and while he was recently declared by the Utne Reader to be among "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life," he is generally content to work on changing his own.

He is the father of three daughters, aged 14, 12, and 10, to whose mother, Elaine Parker, he was married for 17 years before they separated in 1992, and for whose children he hopes to be a good ancestor by assuring the liberty of Cyberspace.

To this end, he wrote the widely distributed Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace as well as The Economy of Ideas, regarded by some to be a seminal work on the future of copyright. As a consequence of these and other essays, he was called the Thomas Jefferson of Cyberspace by Yahoo magazine.

He lives in Pinedale, Wyoming (the only county seat in America without a stoplight), Greenwich Village, Business Class, and Cyberspace

Finally, he knows the difference between information and experience and vastly prefers the latter. For more information, http://www.eff.org/~barlow/