EnVISION 2005

http://www.mediatertia.com/portfolio.htm
Bonnie DeVarco regularly writes and lectures on emerging technologies in education, virtual worlds, collaborative visualization, next generation geographic information systems, information visualization and the culture of cyberspace. Since 1999, she has developed and co-directed LinkWorld, a 3D multi-user world for high school students, through the BorderLink Project, a federally funded Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. DeVarco served as an education technology consultant to non-profit, corporate and educational organizations for the past 16 years (this list includes PBS, Stanford University, the Center for Innovative Learning Technologies and James Burke's Knowledge Web, UC Santa Cruz, UCOP, Smithsonian Institute, DigitalSpace and others). She has helped develop multi-institutional programs for distance and media enhanced learning for the University of California Office of the President as a research and development consultant for the UC College Prep Initiative (UCCP) from 1998 to 2003. DeVarco currently serves as Senior Researcher for the NSF funded Interactive Earth 2 Project, a next generation interactive for Earth Systems Science led by WorldLink Media, TERC, NASA Goddard and the World Resources Institute (WRI). She is founder of VLearn3D, an international networking hub for educators using multi-user worlds in education. DeVarco has regularly produced educational events in cyberspace and in distributed physical locations and leads efforts to research, explore and develop new opportunities for telecollaboration, visualization, education and environmental action using advanced satellite and network technologies, visualization and open source tools.

http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy
Katy Börner is Assistant Professor of Information Science in the School of Library and Information Science, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics, member of the Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, Research Affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute, Fellow of the Center for Social Informatics, Fellow of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology, and member of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the development of visualization methodologies (knowledge domains, users of 3D virtual worlds, interfaces to digital libraries), networks and diffusion of knowledge, and the development of infrastructures for large scale scientific collaboration and computation. She is the recipient of many fellowships and awards, including Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Pervasive Technology Laboratories Fellowship, SBC Fellow, NSF CAREER Award, and Trustees Teaching Award. She is currently PI, Co-PI, or Research Associate in funded research: Center of Excellence for Computational Diagnostics 21st Century Grant, Quest Atlantis: Advancing a Socially-Responsive Meta-Game for Learning (NSF), Sun Center of Excellence in Knowledge Management and Discovery, Data-Code-Computing Infrastructure for Data Mining, Modeling, and Visualization Research and Education, Project ENABLE: Learning through Associations in a Grid based Bioinformatics Digital Library.

Michael G. Brown is marketing team manager for Visual Area Networking (VAN) at SGI. Brown has been involved with high performance graphic and computing for more than 20 years, and has extensive international experience in the government research and education markets. He handles high performance computing market development and is the market evangelist for Visual Supercomputing which combines high performance computing, visualization and data management into a single environment. Brown earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Previous speaking engagements include, The Future of Scalable Graphics Technologies at the SGI Visualization Summit in Cortaillod, Switzerland, 2001; Visual Area Networking: Moving information not people at the SGI Visualization Summit, Melbourne Australia, 2000; and Visual Supercomputing at the SGI Solutions Forum, Tokyo Japan, 1999.

Dr. Timothy W. Foresman is a scientist, professor, author, entrepreneur, consultant, manager, administrator, and world traveler. He leads technology advances in international environmental protection and has been a pioneer for the global expansion of the Digital Earth Project. From 2000 to 2003 Foresman served as the director of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Division of Early Warning and Assessment from the Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and then as UNEP's executive science advisor. Prior to his UN service, Dr. Foresman worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Washington , D.C. Headquarters, where he led the Digital Earth program as national manager. He continues to help lead this program's legacy, as a founding member of the International Society of Digital Earth (ISDE), supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, Dr. Foresman works with many international institutions and agencies promoting availability of, and enhancing access to, the scientific information needed by decision makers, as well as the planet's citizens, for improved environmental management and protection, on a multi-national, global basis for sustainable development.

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/people/faculty/frost/
Eric Frost has been on the faculty in the Geological Sciences department at San Diego State University for 25 years working on a variety of structural geology, romote sensing and visualization projects. He is currently co-director of the Center for Information Technology Infrastructure (CITI), director of the SDSU Visualization Center and the director of the Center for Immersive Telecommunications for Global Exchange (CIT Global E), co-chair of Sensor Networks Special Interest Group, San Diego Telecom, and SDSU liaison for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Cal(IT)2. Frost's work focuses on the use of real-time sensor networks that are aggregated into a command and control center where data fusion products are developed and visualized for decision support. He is also involved in several major NSF projects such as OptIPuter to help build optical networks and Internet capabilities for the future working with the California Telecommunications and Information Technology Cal(IT)2. Frost teaches primarily graduate classes in Collaborative Visualization, Sensor Networks, and Earth System Science.

http://www.geofusion.com
Paul Hansen has 20 years experience designing, optimizing, and testing hardware and software systems. Mr. Hansen worked as a graphics software engineer at Silicon Graphics for ten years, and wrote microchip simulations for design verification. He simulated the raster engine for the Elan/Extreme graphics system (RE4), and two chips for the Impact graphics system, the texture engine (TE1) and texture ram (TR1). The experience from these projects gave him an in-depth understanding of computer graphics rendering and texture-mapping processes, as well as a highly developed capacity for extreme optimization. This, along with strong interests in geometry and geography, was a basis for his later invention of the GeoMatrix digital earth system and co-founding of GeoFusion, Inc.

As a technical specialist for Silicon Graphics (SGI), David Hughes has been specializing in simulation and animation since 1987. His background is in product design, structural analysis and the flight simulator business. Hughes has developed some of the world's first simulation software products and solutions on the first SGI systems. His involvement in 3D simulation has continued throughout his career at SGI. In 1993 he conceived, developed and operated the world's first SGI Reality Center and has continues to manage and oversee the use of Reality Centers and develops strategies that enable this technology to facilitate remote collaborative working on a global basis.

http://www.starhill.us
Mike Liebhold is a leading researcher on geospatial hyper media, digital cartography, spatial- and location-based network information services. He serves as part-time visiting researcher for Intel Research labs and is a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future (IFTF) focusing on diffusion scenarios of the geospatial web. Liebhold was a Senior Scientist at Apple for ten years, Chief Technology Officer for Times Mirror Publishing, and a founding investor and senior consulting architect at Netscape. While at Apple he led development of a number of location-based, cartographic "locative" media services and applications including launch of strategic partnerships with Lucasfilm and the National Geographic, Disney Studios. While CTO, with Times Mirror, Liebhold worked on GIS projects with its aeronautical navigation subsidiary, (now a division of Boeing). Liebhold leads the Starhill Community blog on micro-local and geospatial ideas.

http://www.ramanarao.com
Ramana Rao is senior vice president, chief technology officer and founder of Inxight Software . He is a software designer and evangelist for software systems that extend human intellectual and creative reach. Rao spent many years at Xerox PARC exploring a variety of topics related to enabling people to interact with information more effectively. His work includes 25 patent filings and numerous refereed research papers based on his research on intelligent information access, digital libraries, information visualization and the user interface. Rao holds a BS and MS from MIT. At Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center [PARC] for ten years, he performed pioneering work in intelligent information access, digital libraries, information visualization, and user interfaces and was one of the earliest software designers to tackle innovative approaches to graphical user interface design.

http://www.geog.uno.edu/~askupin/
Dr. Skupin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of New Orleans. He has worked in the geographic information systems (GIS) industry in the US, Germany, and South Africa and did graduate research with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). His research interests include text document visualization, geographic visualization, cartographic generalization, and data mining. In recent years, he has particularly explored the integration of traditional cartographic approaches and geographic principles with highly computational methods, like self-organizing maps. Dr. Skupin's publications have addressed the application of various cartographic methods to non-georeferenced data, the visualization of knowledge domains, and the delineation of spatio-temporal trajectories in attribute space.

http://www.geofusion.com
Chuck Stein is a co-founded GeoFusion, Inc. in June, 2001 bringing together his interests in environmental data management, data visualization, and Internet technology. He received his Bachelors of Science and Masters degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1986 and 1989. From 1990 through 1989 he provided consulting services to the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), NOAA, and other environmental-based organizations. At NRL he was the Architect, Technical Lead, and Software Development Manager for DoD's Master Environmental Library (MEL) project, an internet-based DoD environmental data discovery and access system (mel.dmso.mil) providing seamless access to Army, Navy, Air Force, and government data centers. At NRL he also participated in the design, development, and worldwide installations of the Naval Environmental Operational Nowcasting System (NEONS) Environmental Data Management System.