David Silver Wednesday, March 29, 2006
will join the Department of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco Autumn 2006. Currently he
is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. He studies new media, media history and cultural studies. He is the director of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies and co-director of The September Project.
Recent publications include: "Selling Cyberspace: Constructing and Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Community," Southern Communication Journal 70:3 (In press): 187-199. "Internet/cyberculture/digital culture/new media/fill-in-the-blank studies," New Media & Society 6:1 (January 2004): 55-64. "Constructing Cultural Difference in/and Cyberspace," Information Technology, Education and Society (Vol 3: Nos 1 and 2, 2002): 7-21.
Ron Johnson Wednesday, April 5, 2006
is Vice President for I.T., at the University of Washington where he is also a faculty member with appointments in the I-School and CS&E. Ron is as well actively engaged 'cyber-infrastructure' oriented research projects involving next generation network technologies and infrastructure. Among them are NSF funded efforts to establish cyber-infrastructure architecture for ocean observatories (including Project Neptune), the NSF funded TransLight-Pacific Wave project for international research networking around the pacific rim, and the NIH funded 'Lariat' project.
In addition to bringing the Internet to the northwest, Ron and his groups played a significant role in the creation and the evolution of the Internet itself and related technologies from ARPAnet, Bitnet and NSFnet eras thru today's pervasive Internet and tomorrow's next-generation trials, testbeds and infrastructures. They created one of the first internet-standards based email programs ("Pine") as well as the key 'IMAP' messaging technologies that underlie many of today's email and messaging systems. His team has established a number of important network technology and digital media 1st's, including one of the earliest live web-cam implementations, the 1st real-time (as well as the 1st non-compressed real-time) HDTV over the internet, the 1st uncompressed Compact Disk audio provided in real-time over the internet, the 1st real-time packetized HDTV from the ocean floor over satellite links. In today's network arena Ron is a co-founder of Internet2 and National LambdaRail (NLR) as well as the Pacific NorthWest GigaPoP and Pacific Wave where he also serves on those and other similar boards. He is as well Chair of the Board of KEXP-FM/KEXP.ORG and is a co-founder and board member of the ResearchChannel. Previously Ron was CIO at UCLA.
Ron has been on-line and 'wired' since the 1970's, though he tries not to let it show.
Barbara Endicott-Popovsky Wednesday, April 19, 2006
is president of Endicott Consulting, Inc., specializing in computer security evaluations for critical infrastructure, network/intrusion detection research, computer forensics research, project and data management, strategic planning, systems engineering/design, requirements analysis, feasibility studies, instructional design, technical writing and training.
Dave Dittrick Wednesday, April 26, 2006
is a Senior Security Engineer and Researcher for
the UW Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity and
the Information School at the
University of Washington. He is also a member of the Honeynet Project
and Seattle's "Agora" security group.
Dave is most widely known for his research into Distributed Denial of
Service (DDoS) attack tools and host & network forensics. He has
presented talks and courses at dozens of computer security
conferences, workshops, and government/private organizations
world wide, and co-authored the first complete book on DDoS, titled
"Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms."
Stephanie Andrews Wednesday, May 3(?), 2006
is an experimental media artist who uses techniques of illusion and transformation to bring people into her work as active agents of perception. Her work utilizes technologies such as digital imaging, video, neon, and computer-controlled pneumatic systems to create screen-based and installation-oriented work. She is a University of Washington alumni, having earned a BA in Art in 1996, where she concentrated in computer graphics, photography, and printmaking. Before returning to the UW as an Assistant Professor in fall of 2004, she was an Instructor of 3D Animation and Computer Lighting/Rendering at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also earned her MFA in Art and Technology from SAIC in 2002. She has had additional training at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Bay Area Theatre Sports, and the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Andrews was a Technical Director of 3D graphics for Pixar Animation Studios on the award-winning films A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2. She has shown her work in galleries and museums in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and the UK.