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Mark
Lawrence Kornbluh
Director of MATRIX,
Executive Director, H-Net,
and Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
The impact of new technologies on higher education
remains one of Dr. Mark Kornbluh's primary research
interests. In addition to awards for excellence in teaching,
he has administrated a large number of national grants
to develop online materials for research and teaching
from the National Endowment for the Humanities, United
States Information Agency, and Michigan Department of
Education. At present, Dr. Kornbluh is Executive Director
of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Director
of MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social
Sciences Online at Michigan State University, and associate
professor of history at MSU.
Dr. Kornbluh has also authored a book on voter participation
in the early 20th century, Why America Stopped Voting:
The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence
of Modern Electoral Politics, 1880-1918 (New York University
Press, 1999), in addition to co-authoring a CD-ROM for
use in the college history survey, and numerous conference
presentations and articles.
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Michael
Seadle
Digital Services
and Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University
Dr. Michael Seadle has authored 30 articles, chapters
and books on a range of subjects including German history,
computing management, and digitization. He has a Ph.D.
in history from the University of Chicago, a library
degree from the University of Michigan, and a decade
of experience as a computer professional. At present,
he is editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Library
Hi Tech.
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Joyce
Grant
College of Education,
Michigan State University
Dr. Joyce Grant is an associate professor of teacher
education. Her primary research interests are in school
change, particularly management and organization, curricula
and pedagogy. Among her wide range of professional experience,
Dr. Grant has a long-standing commitment to the Detroit
and Boston Metropolitan area school systems.
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Jack
Deller
Department of
Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University
Dr. John R. (Jack) Deller, Jr. is a professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. His research centers on system
identification and statistical signal processing, speech
processing including speech analysis and recognition,
and biomedical signal processing. He has a particular
interest in technologies for persons with speech and
sensory disabilities, AAC devices for rehabilitation/habilitation
of persons with speech and profound motor disabilities,
and speech pathology diagnosis and assessment.
Dr. Deller has published a large number of journal
articles and conference papers related to signal processing,
and is coauthor of the textbook Discrete-Time Processing
of Speech Signals, (Prentice-Hall, 1993).
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Jerry
Goldman
Department
of Political Science, Northwestern University
American politics, law and politics and multimedia
applications for research rank among Dr. Jerry Goldman's
primary interests. Dr. Goldman has conducted experiments
in appellate procedure, human subjects review, and criminal
sentencing. His latest work exploits information technology
to conduct multimedia experiments via the Internet.
Dr. Goldman heads the Oyez, Oyez, Oyez project, a multimedia
relational database accessible via the World Wide Web,
and the History and Politics Out Loud site. He is the
recipient of the 1997 Educom Medal for his contributions
to computing and political science.
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John
Hansen
Center for Spoken
Language Understanding, University of Colorado at
Boulder
Dr. John Hansen directs the Robust Speech Processing
Laboratory and is associate professor in the Departments
of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, and Electrical
& Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado
Boulder. Dr. Hansen's research interests span the areas
of digital speech processing, analysis and modeling
of speech and speaker traits, speech pathology and voice
assessment, speech enhancement and feature estimation
in noise, robust speech recognition with current emphasis
on robust recognition and training methods for topic
spotting in accent, noise, stress, and Lombard effect,
and speech feature enhancement in hands-free environments
for human-computer interaction.
Dr. Hansen is the author/coauthor of more than 100
journal and conference papers in the field of speech
processing, and is coauthor of the textbook Discrete-Time
Processing of Speech Signals, (Prentice-Hall, 1993).
He was the recipient of a Whitaker Foundation Biomedical
Research Award in 1993, a National Science Foundation's
Research Initiation Award in 1990, and has been named
a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow for ``Contributions
to the Advancement of Engineering Education.'' He is
a Senior Member of IEEE, and has served as Technical
Advisor to U.S. Delegate for NATO (IST/TG-01: Research
Study Group on Speech Processing, 1996-1998).
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Douglas
Greenberg
President, Chicago
Historical Society
Dr. Douglas Greenberg has served as President and Director
of the Chicago Historical Society since 1993, and has
a previously served as Vice President and Acting President
of the American Council of Learned Societies. He has
also authored numerous articles related to humanities
computing, information technologies, and digital libraries
and preservation.
Dr. Greenberg has been active in a wide range of community-based
activities and outreach while at the Chicago Historical
Society. In particular, he has spearheaded a project
called "History Explorers" in the Chicago public school
system and has a personal mentoring relationship with
the administration, faculty and students of the Paul
Cuffee School on Chicago's south side.
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