Carl Robert Blesius, Board Chairman Harvard/MIT Health Sciences & Technology

Carl Blesius is a National Library of Medicine Fellow through the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences & Technology program working in the Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests lie in medical informatics and developing technology tools to support research collaboration. Carl led the .LRN implementation effort ar Heidelberg Medical School and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He is now running an installation at Harvard's main teaching hospital (MGH) and the Partners Healthcare system. Carl received his M.D. from Heidelberg Medical School.

 

Rocael Hernández Galileo University, Guatemala

Rocael is the e-campus and e-learning director in the Research and Development Department at Galileo University, in Guatemala, the top technological University in the country. In their .LRN installation at Galileo they have about 100,000 registered users with about 30,000 active per semester. About 2,500 courses are given per semester in Galileo, and all the web services from the public page, to University payments to online classes are built atop .LRN.

His research is mainly in web applications, user interaction, online communities, e-learning both areas: technical and methodological. He has been involved with .LRN its technology since 2000. Also seved as the technical leader of the E-LANE project, a European-funded initiative to set up e-Learning demonstration initiatives in Latin America..

Carlos Delgado Kloos, Board Vice-Chairman Carlos III University of Madrid

Carlos is Full Professor of Telematic Engineering at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He also holds the Nokia Chair and is Director of the Department of Telematics Engineering and the Master of Electronic Commerce program. He is active in many research projects with intercontinental, European, national and bilateral funding. He is presently the coordinator of the E-LANE project, a European-funded initiative to set up e-Learning demonstration initiatives in Latin America. He has published over 120 articles in national and international conferences and journals and has written a book and co-edited five. Carlos holds a Dr. Ing. Telecomunicación from the Technical University of Madrid and Dr. rer. nat. (in Computer Science) from the Technical University of Munich. Carlos is currently on sabbatical leave conducting research at MIT's Center for Educational Computing Initiatives.

Gustaf Neumann Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Gustaf is Chair for Information Systems/New Media at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. A native of Vienna, Austria, he graduated from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU), Austria, in 1983 and holds a Ph.D. from the same university. He joined the faculty of WU in 1983 as Assistant Professor at the MIS department and served as head of the research group for Logic Programming and Intelligent Information Systems. Before joining the faculty at Vienna University, Gustaf Neumann was Prof. of Information Systems and Software Techniques at the University of Essen, Germany. Earlier he was visiting scientist at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, from 1985-1986 and 1993-1995. In 1987, he was awarded the Heinz-Zemanek award of the Austrian Association of Computer Science (OCG) for best dissertation (Metainterpreter Directed Compilation of Logic Programs into Prolog). Professor Neumann has published books and papers in the areas of program transformation, data modeling, information systems technology and security management. He is the author of several widely used programs that are freely available, such as the TeX-dvi converter dvi2xx and the graphical front-end package Wafe.

Jesús G. Boticario Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Jesus G. Boticario is an associate professor of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the School of Computer Science (CSS) at UNED. He has held several positions at UNED in the area of e-learning and ICT’s (General Director of the Centre of Innovation and Technological Development, Innovation and Technological Development Vice-principal, Director of Innovation). He has published more than 100 research articles in the areas of adaptive interfaces, user modelling and e-learning. He has participated in 14 R&D funded projects (European Commission, National Science Foundation –USA, Ministry of Education in Spain, Madrid, Galician and Castilla-La Mancha Communities). He has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences, forums and institutions. He is currently the head of a certified R&D group at UNED (Ref: G74E25), aDeNu (http://adenu.ia.uned.es/), and the scientific coordinator in two European and 3 National funded projects in the area of eInclusion.

 

 

Caroline Meeks Solution Grove

Caroline Meeks was a co-founder of .LRN and was the project manager and visionary for the first installation at MIT Sloan.  Caroline founded Solution Grove to expand the number of organizations that can benefit from OpenACS and .LRN.   Solution Grove's .LRN clients includes, MIT Sloan, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Concord Consortium, Mass General Hospital/Partners Healthcare and many others.  Caroline has a degrees from MIT and the University of Massachusetts and is currently a special student at Harvard Graduate School for Education studying Learning Technology.

Cesar Brea