Who's Who on the Panel From: The Future of the Internet
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From Discover Magazine, November 2000
BRAN FERREN was until recently the president of research and development for the Walt Disney Company. He left to cofound a new company called Applied Minds, with partners Danny Hillis and Doug Carlston. Their focus is to invent new concepts and technologies that will make our world a better place.
FRANCINE GEMPERLE directs the Interaction Design Studio at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, where she focuses on finding intuitive ways for people to work with technology. She conducts research in mobile and wearable computing and human-computer interaction.
MARTIN GREENBERGER holds the IBM chair in technology at the Anderson School of the University of California at Los Angeles. He is also senior fellow at the Milken Institute and president of the Council for Technology and the Individual, a nonprofit foundation addressing the human dimensions of technology.
TED HANSS is director of applications development for Internet2, an effort by more than 170 universities to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies. He is on loan to Internet2 from the University of Michigan, where he is in the information technology division.
JEFF HARROW is a senior consulting engineer with Compaq's technology and corporate development division. He holds patents for technologies in network management and user interfaces and is the author and editor of The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing, a weekly newsletter that explores computing trends.
ROBERT LUCKY is corporate vice president of applied research at Telcordia Technologies. Early in his career at Bell Labs he invented the adaptive equalizer, a key part of high-speed modems. He has led government and military science advisory boards.
MARVIN MINSKY is Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, where he works in the AI Lab and the Media Lab. He has often been called the father of artifical intellegence and is the author of several books, including The Society of Mind.
S. JOY MOUNTFORD has been working in interface design more than 20 years. She was in charge of the Human Interface Group at Apple Computer, then led projects on interactive musical development for Interval Research Corporation in Seattle. She recently formed her own interaction design company, Idbias.
TED HANSS: Much more than bandwidth. For instance, we're working on high-fidelity audio and video. To me, video is the killer app for the future of the Internet, but first we have to make video as easy to use as word processing is today. (Emphasis added. EF) Astronomers come to me and say they want to be able to get access to a telescope on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii without climbing to 14,000 feet. The way to do that is to bring the video to the individual. How do you help them publish their results and share them with other astronomers? How do you help them show images from those telescopes on Mauna Kea in the classroom in a way that is digestible?