Conference Advisory Board
Kim B. Clark, Dean, Harvard Business School
Robert C. Clark, Dean, Harvard Law School
Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Paul C. Martin, Dean, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Jerome T. Murphy, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Myles Berkman, Chairman and CEO, Associated Group
Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Director, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Conference Track Chairs
Business Chairs: Stephen P. Bradley, William Ziegler Professor of Administration, Harvard Business School Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration in the Competition and Strategy Area at Harvard Business School. He is currently Faculty Chairman of the Executive Program in Competition and Strategy and teaches two courses in the MBA program. Professor Bradley's current research interests center on the impact of technology on industry structure and competitive strategy. His most recent book, Globalization, Technology, and Competition (Harvard Business School Press, 1993), deals with the fusion of computers and telecommunications in the 1990s. He is also co-editor of Future Competition in Telecommunications (Harvard Business School Press, 1989). Professor Bradley received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1963, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1965 and 1968 respectively. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was with the Center for Exploratory Studies of the IBM Corporation.	Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of '42 Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Richard L. Nolan, William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology, is the Harvard Business School faculty chair of Delivering Information Services, and teaches a second-year MBA elective, "Competing in the Information Age." He is an authority on the role of information technology in enabling business transformation. His most recent books are Sense and Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era, edited with Stephen P. Bradley, and Creative Destruction: A Six-Stage Process for Transforming the Organization, with David C. Croson. Nolan is studying business transformation, the process of creatively destroying industrial economy management principles and evolving a set of workable management principles for the information economy. Some industrial economy management principles are obsolete, some salvageable, and entirely new principles are needed to guide, for example, the management of information as a resource distinctively different from scarce, physical resources. Central to his research is an understanding of information technology's information resource management role in taking an enterprise from "make and sell" to "sense and respond" strategies. Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. He returned to the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1991, after serving as Chairman of Nolan, Norton & Co. from 1977.
Law Chairs: William W. Fisher III, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School William (Terry) Fisher III is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1984. His publications on intellectual-property law include: "Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine" (Harvard Law Review, 1988); "The Growth of Intellectual Property: A History of the Ownership of Ideas in the United States," in Eigentumskulturen im Vergleich (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998); "Compulsory Terms in Internet-Related Contracts" (forthcoming, Chicago-Kent Law Review); and "Theories of Intellectual Property" (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). He has also published widely in the fields of property law and American legal history. During the spring of 1998, he taught an online course entitled "Intellectual Property in Cyberspace" in conjunction with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (available at http://property.berkmancenter.org). His educational and professional experience includes a B.A. from Amherst College; a J.D. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University; a clerkship with Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court; a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship; and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.	Jonathan L. Zittrain, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School; Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School Jonathan Zittrain is Executive Director—and along with Charles Nesson, a founder—of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Zittrain oversees all Center activities, ranging from electronically-mediated teaching to developing this conference, and teaches a Harvard Law School research seminar on questions of law, society and policy spawned by the expanding globally networked environment. He has served with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He is also the sysop of CompuServe's Sysop Forum.
Technology/Public Policy Chairs: Scott Bradner, Senior Technical Consultant, University Information Systems, Harvard University Scott Bradner has been involved in the design, operation and use of data networks at Harvard University since the early days of the ARPANET. He was involved in the design of the Harvard High-Speed Data Network (HSDN), the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and NEARNET. He was Founding Chair of the technical committees of LMAnet, NEARNET and CoREN. Bradner is Co-director of the Transport Area in the IETF, is a member of the IESG, and an elected trustee of the Internet Society where he serves as Vice President for Standards. He was also Co-director of the IETF IP next generation effort and is co-editor of IPng: Internet Protocol Next Generation (Addison-Wesley). Lewis M. Branscomb, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, Emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Lewis M. Branscomb is the Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management emeritus and former Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program in the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. A research physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) from 1951 to 1969, he was Director of NBS from 1969 to 1972. President Johnson named him to the President's Science Advisory Committee in 1964, and he chaired the subcommittee on Space Science and Technology during Project Apollo. In 1972 Branscomb was named Vice President and Chief Scientist of IBM Corporation and to its Management Committee, serving until 1986. While at IBM, he was appointed by President Carter to the National Science Board and in 1980 was elected chairman. In 1987 he was appointed a Director of the Massachusetts Center of Excellence Corporation by Governor Dukakis of Massachusetts, and in 1991 to the Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology by Governor Weld. Branscomb was also appointed to President Johnson's Science Advisory Committee, and Reagan’s National Commission on Productivity. Branscomb is a member of the Committee on Japan of the National Research Council and a participant in the High Level Bilateral Discussions conducted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Some of his recent books are Converging Infrastructures: Intelligent Transportation and the National Information Infrastructure (1996) with James Keller; Informed Legislatures: Coping with Science in a Democracy (1996) with Megan Jones and David Guston, and Korea at the Turning Point: Innovation-Based Strategies for Development (1996) with H.Y. Choi. Branscomb graduated from Duke University in 1945 and was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics by Harvard University in 1949.	H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University H. T. Kung is William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University. He teaches courses in computer and communications systems and leads a research team in these areas. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and served on their faculty before joining Harvard in 1992. His current research is directed toward the design of high-speed data networks. In 1993, Kung was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was Conference Chair for the first Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society in 1996. To complement his academic activities, Kung maintains a strong linkage with industry, and has been a consultant to a dozen computer and communications companies. Pattie Maes, Associate Professor, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pattie Maes is an Associate Professor at MIT's Media Laboratory, where she founded and directs the Software Agents Group. She currently holds the Sony Corporation Career Development Chair. Previously, she was a visiting Professor and a Research Scientist at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Her areas of expertise are artificial intelligence, artificial life, human computer interaction, computer supported collaborative work, information filtering and electronic commerce. Maes is one of the pioneers of a new research area called Software Agents, semi-intelligent computer programs that assist a user with the overload of information and the complexity of the online world. She is a founder and board member of the Agent Society, an international industry and professional organization established to assist in the widespread development and emergence of intelligent agent technologies and markets. In the last 2 years Upside Magazine included Maes in its list of 100 most influential netizens and Newsweek named her one of the 100 Americans to watch for in the year 2000. Maes is a consultant in the area of Software Agents for several major companies, including Apple Computer and Hughes Research. She is also a founder and director of Firefly Network, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the first companies to commercialize software agent technology. She holds a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
Education Chairs: Linda Greyser, Associate Director of Programs in Professional Development, Harvard Graduate School of Education Linda L. Greyser is Associate Director of Programs in Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is responsible for Harvard's professional development programs for educators in the elementary-secondary sector. Since 1994 she has created, helped to develop, and managed the Harvard Institute for School Leadership and the Harvard Seminar for New Superintendents, both annual summer institutes on technology in education, assessment and accountability, and the media and democracy. She is also responsible for the curriculum and design of Harvard's annual Seminar for Superintendents. Dr. Greyser is a graduate of Lake Erie College and earned an M.A. in French at Middlebury's Graduate School of French in Paris. Her M.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees are from Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She has devoted over 25 years to elementary/secondary education, as teacher, curriculum leader, administrator, volunteer, and community leader. In 1994 she was appointed to PBS's Learning Services Advisory Committee, a group charged with recommending priorities for addressing educational needs that can be effectively served by national public television working in partnership with educators, policy-makers and business.	David N. Perkins, Jr., Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education David Perkins is Co-director of Harvard Project Zero and a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also directs the Technology in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A cognitive scientist with degrees in Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence from MIT, he is the author of Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds, Outsmarting IQ: The New Science of Learnable Intelligence, Knowledge as Design, and several other books as well as many articles. He has participated in the development of a number of instructional programs and approaches for teaching understanding and thinking, including initiatives in South Africa, Israel, and Latin America. He is a former Guggenheim fellow. In close collaboration with Stone Wiske at the Educational Technology Center, HGSE, and others at Project Zero, he is developing a WWW initiative supporting teachers in pedagogical innovations such as teaching for understanding as well as integrating technology with teaching and learning in schools. The site-in-the-making, called ALPS for Active Learning Practices for Schools, will provide an experimental and practical vehicle for addressing fundamental challenges of innovation at scale.
Community Chairs: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard as well as director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. He taught English literature and Afro-American studies at Yale from 1979 to 1985 and at Cornell from 1985 to 1990 before joining the faculty of Harvard in 1991. Honors granted to Gates include the Zora Neale Hurston Society Award for Cultural Scholarship, the Candle Award of Morehouse College, the Norman Rabb Award of the American Jewish Committee, the Golden Plate Achievement Award, the George Polk Award for Social Commentary, and the Tikkun National Ethics Award. Gates has been a Mellon Fellow at the University of Cambridge at the National Humanities Center, a Ford Foundation National Fellow and a MacArthur Prize Fellow. He is author of Thirteen Ways to Look at a Black Man (1997); Colored People: A Memoir (1994); Loose Cannons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992); The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988), and Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the Racial Self (1987). He is general editor of the National Anthology of African-American Literature and has edited and coedited many other books and special issues of journals. He is a staff writer for the New Yorker and coeditor of Transition magazine which received the 1993 Association of American Publishers Award for "Best New Journal in the Social Sciences and the Humanities."	Anthony K. Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University, and author of In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992), Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (1996), and Necessary Questions, an introduction to analytic philosophy. Appiah has also written monographs on the philosophy of language and a series of mystery novels. He has been President of the Society for African Philosophy in North America and is an editor of Transition. With his mother, Peggy, he is preparing a volume of proverbs translated from the Asante in Ghana, where he grew up. His research interests include epistemology and philosophy of language, African philosophy, philosophical problems of race and racism, Afro-American and African literature and literary theory. He is currently thinking about how a liberal political philosophy that takes individual autonomy as a central value is nevertheless bound to acknowledge the value of various forms of collectivity. This work has led to publications on topics from multiculturalism and philosophy of education to cosmopolitanism and nationalism. Appiah was educated at Cambridge University, where he earned both a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy.

Conference Administration
David A. Shore, Coopers & Lybrand Director of Continuing Professional Education, Harvard School of Public Health
Christian B. Flynn, Conference Coordinator, Center for Continuing Public Education, Harvard School of Public Health
Sarah E. Hancur, Program Coordinator, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Laura J. Price, Conference Manager, Center for Continuing Public Education, Harvard School of Public Health