Robert ("Rob") D. Austin came to the Harvard Business School faculty from the front lines of corporate battles to use information technologies strategically. Until 1997, he was a planning and implementation manager for Ford Motor Company's European and Emerging Market operations. Prior to that, he handled the high pressure duties associated with development and support of the mission-critical application at the heart of each of Ford's North American assembly plants. At Harvard he has taught courses in economics, accounting, and information technology, in addition to conducting research in IT and knowledge-intensive business management. His doctoral dissertation, completed at Carnegie Mellon University, won the Herbert A. Simon Award and was recently published by Dorset House in the form of a book entitled Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations.

Ronald W. Bailey is Professor of African-American Studies and History at Northeastern University and has served as Chair of the Department of African American Studies for eight years. Bailey has taught at Fisk, Cornell, and Northwestern, and directed the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Mississippi. He recently served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at South Carolina State University. Bailey is currently Consulting Director of the Center for Understanding the Black Experience (CUBE), a research and development entity affiliated with the Education Development Center, Inc., in Newton, Massachusetts. In cooperation with Juneteenth Productions, he is completing a documentary entitled "For My People," which focuses on Margaret Walker, the noted African-American poet, novelist, and Richard Wright biographer. In July 1998, Bailey will serve on the faculty of the Leadership and New Technologies Institute at Harvard and the National Digital Library's Institute for Teachers at the Library of Congress. He has directed several projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, including two highly successful summer institutes on Nubia, the ancient African civilization. His books include: Black Business Enterprise, Introduction to Afro-American Studies, and Let Us March On!: Civil Rights Photographs of Ernest Withers, Jr. A forthcoming book is Those Valuable People, The Africans: The Slave(ry) Trade, Cotton, and the Industrial Revolution in World History. He is a graduate of Michigan State University (1969) and holds an M.A. in Political Science (1971) and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Black Studies (1979) from Stanford University, the first such doctorate awarded in the U.S.

John Perry Barlow is a former Wyoming rancher and Grateful Dead lyricist. More recently, he co-founded and still co-chairs the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was the first to apply the term Cyberspace to the "place" it presently describes. Last semester, he was a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and was recently appointed to a Fellowship at the Berkman Center. He writes and talks for a living and lives everywhere.

Ann Beeson is National Staff Attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. As counsel for plaintiffs in ACLU v. Reno, Beeson is a primary architect of the landmark case in which the Supreme Court recently declared the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA) unconstitutional, affirming free speech rights in cyberspace. She is staff counsel at the ACLU National Headquarters in New York city where she works as a litigator and online activist to promote and protect civil liberties in cyberspace. At the state level she fought and won the first two cases challenging state efforts to censor online speech. Beeson has fought Internet censorship by universities, and last fall persuaded Princeton University to rescind its ban on student use of the college computer network "for political purposes." She also opposed the mandatory use of filtering software in public libraries that provide Internet access.

Jerry Berman is Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). CDT is an independent, nonprofit public interest policy organization whose mission is to develop and implement public policies to protect and advance individual liberty and democratic values in digital media. Berman coordinates the Digital Privacy and Security Working Group of over 50 communications firms, associations and civil liberties groups addressing communications privacy policy issues. The group works on such issues as the Administration's "Clipper Chip" key escrow encryption scheme and monitors the implementation of the Digital Telephony legislation. Before founding the CDT, Berman was Policy Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prior to this he was Chief Legislative Counsel at the ACLU.

Sven Birkerts is author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. He is author of many essays, including "American Energies: Essays on Fiction" (Morrow, 1992) and "The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry" (Morrow, 1989). He also edits Tolstoy's Dictaphone (Graywolf, 1996). He is an editor, along with Donald Hall, of the textbook Writing Well (Harper). In 1994, Birkerts was a Guggenheim Fellow and he also recently received a Lila Wallace Foundation fellowship in writing. In 1985 he was awarded the Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. He has taught at Harvard and Emerson Colleges and currently teaches at Mt. Holyoke College.

Nolan Bowie is a widely respected communications attorney and was formerly a staff attorney and Executive Director of Citizens Communications Center, a Washington, D.C. public interest law firm and education facility. Bowie has over 24 years of experience as a professional and volunteer advocate, lawyer, writer, consultant, lecturer, advisor, and teacher, involved in various activities concerning broadcasting, telecommunications, and information policy. Bowie served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor with the Watergate Special Prosecution Force and as an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Department of Law. He was a founder board member of Independence Public Media, Inc. and The Cultural Environment Movement, Inc. He is a former member of the Advisory Council of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and has served on many nonprofit organization boards as a director, including The Independent Television Service (ITVS), Deep Dish Television Network, Inc., and Strategies for Media Literacy, Inc. He also served a member of the U.S. Delegation to the World Administration Radio Conference. Bowie received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973 and completed one year of study at MIT, where he was working toward a Ph.D. prior to joining the Temple University faculty in 1986. Currently, Bowie is an advisor to The Open Society Institute's Initiative on Democratic Participation and The Center for Media Education.

M. Christine Boyer is a city planner and computer scientist whose interests include the history of urbanism, cybernetics, memory and perception. She joined the School of Architecture at Princeton University in 1991. She was professor and chair of the City and Regional Planning Program at Pratt Institute and she has taught at Cooper Union, Columbia University and GSD, Harvard University. Boyer has written extensively about urbanism: her publications include Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning (MIT, 1983); Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850-1900 (Rizzoli, 1985); The City of Collective Memory (MIT, 1993) and CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication (PAP, 1995). She is currently researching a book on the rhetorics of Le Corbusier, tentatively titled "The City Plans of Modernism"; and a series of collected essays entitled Twice-Told Stories: Cities and Cinema. Boyer continues to lecture widely on the topics of cybercities, memory and urban form, and twice-told stories.

Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, was born in San Francisco on August 15, 1938. He married Joanna Hare in 1967. They have three children, Chloe, Nell and Michael. He is a graduate of Stanford University, Oxford University (Magdalen College), and Harvard Law School. During the United States Supreme Court's 1964 Term he was law clerk to Justice Arthur J. Goldberg. In 1965-67 he worked as Special Assistant to the head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. From 1967 through 1980 he taught at Harvard University, as Professor of Law, and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He also worked as an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor (1973), as a Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee (1975), and as the Judiciary Committee's Chief Counsel (1979-80). In 1980 he was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He became the Circuit's Chief Judge in 1990. He has also served as a Member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and of the United States Sentencing Commission. He has written books and articles in the field of administrative law and government regulation. President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice, and he took office in August 1994.

Merrill Brown was appointed the first Editor-in-Chief of MSNBC on the Internet in August 1996, after serving as acting managing editor for the July 15 launch of the service. Brown was a founder and Senior Vice President of Courtroom Television Network (Court TV). Prior to joining MSNBC in May 1996, Brown was a media and communications consultant whose work included strategic development at Time Inc., NBC, U.S. West and a variety of other media ventures (1995- 96). While at Time Inc., he served as Consulting Senior Editor of Money magazine, developing online and Internet services for the publication. He also served as acting editor for Time Magazine Daily (the periodical's daily online news operation) and as a consulting editor for Time magazine. Prior to that, Brown was President of Kagan Information Services and Editor-in-Chief of Baseline, heading up these two divisions of Paul Kagan Associates (1994). From 1985 to 1990, Brown was Editor-in-Chief of Channels magazine. He was also associated with The Washington Post where he served as a financial reporter and New York financial correspondent, as well as director of business development.

Colin Browning has over nine years experience in the high-technology industry helping individuals and organizations maximize the potential of various technologies. As an eBusiness Consultant with USWeb, he specializes in developing strategic recommendations for the implementation of electronic commerce, virtual community, Intranets/Extranets, and other Internet solutions for medium-sized to Fortune 500 companies, namely in the financial services industry. Prior to joining USWeb, Browning was a project manager at the State Street Bank, where he developed and implemented the organization's first successful electronic marketing initiative. Following his experience at the State Street Bank, Browning served as the Interactive Marketing Manager at Pilot Software. Browning has won numerous awards for his personal web site, the WebCurmudgeon.com. He received his MBA from Babson College and his BA in Economics from Bates College.

Thomas R. Bruce was formerly Director of Educational Technologies at Cornell Law School and is now a member of the Cornell Law School faculty. He is the first individual without a law degree to have been so appointed. With Peter Martin, he co-directs the Legal Information Institute, which they characterize as "the equivalent of a small, electronic university press." Lauded by the Whole Internet Catalog and many others as the leading site for law on the Internet, the Institute engages in the distribution of legal information in hypertextual format on disk and via the Internet, including materials of interest to law students, legal academics, legal practitioners, and managers in industries impacted by regulation. The Institute also provides a variety of publishing, consulting, and software development services through joint-study, corporate sponsorship, and licensing arrangements with companies such as West Group, Lexis/Nexis, Shepard's, McGraw-Hill, Folio Corporation, Counsel Connect, Matthew Bender, Distinct Corporation, Softronics, Transnational Juris Publications, IBM, MCI, and Lawyer’s Cooperative Publishing. Bruce was also the author of Cello, the first Internet browser for Microsoft Windows. His most recent project is an online edition of the thirteenth-century English law text, Bracton's De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae.

James Burling chairs the Antitrust Practice Group at Hale & Dorr, where he previously served as Chair of the Litigation Department, and of the Firm's Executive Committee. He graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School, and served as an antitrust litigator for the FTC before joining Hale & Dorr. Burling specializes in antitrust litigation for high technology clients. He also engages regularly in counseling regarding merger and acquisition, joint venture, and distribution matters. Burling has written a number of articles on antitrust law and litigation, and recently completed a term as Vice Chair of the ABA Antitrust Section's Intellectual Property Committee.

As a senior consultant at USWeb Corporation, Anne Champlin specializes in developing recommendations for the implementation of electronic commerce, virtual community, Intranets/Extranets, and other Internet solutions for a wide range of clients in many diverse vertical markets, including telecommunications and government. Prior to joining USWeb, Champlin was active in the telecommunications and technology arena. As Director of Research at Global Growth Strategies, a leading telecommunications and technology consulting firm, she headed the reporting and analysis of technology and communication topics—telecommunications infrastructure, technology in banking trends, Intranets, electronic commerce, intelligent applications. In addition, she also served as a telecommunications and technology consultant for International Business Strategies and developed models for performing content analysis of broadcast television news at the Center for Media and Public Affairs. Champlin did her graduate work in international communications technology at the American University in Washington, D.C.

Christopher Charron is an Analyst in the Media & Technology group at Forrester Research Inc. His current research agenda focuses on on-line business models and media site valuations. His research revolves around revenue-generating opportunities for media companies, such as content-driven transactions, advertising, and subscriptions. Prior to joining Forrester, Chris was a product manager for Vertigo Development Group, a provider of interactive and on-line financial planning software. While at Vertigo, Chris managed the development of interactive products for stock-picker Peter Lynch and management expert Tom Peters. Before moving to Vertigo, Chris founded The Lighthouse Group, an educational CD-ROM company that developed and marketed interactive biographies such as His Name Was Lincoln, sold through major retailers and educational publishers. A former corporate bond trader for Salomon Brothers, Chris is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Kim B. Clark is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration and Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School. Dean Clark's aggressive technology blueprint for HBS is leading management education rapidly into the 21st century. The school's innovative Internet technology based "course platform" has become an essential part of the HBS learning environment and is now closely integrated into the daily activities of faculty, staff, and students. The course platform supports collaboration, interaction, and sophisticated presentation formats, including audio and video, all via the HBS intranet. On Dean Clark's impetus, this innovative system is also being extended to serve an executive education and alumni network that reaches to the far corners of the globe. Dean Clark is a distinguished teacher, researcher, and author in the areas of technology, productivity, product development, and operations strategy.

Julie E. Cohen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She teaches and writes about intellectual property law, with particular focus on computer software and digital works and on the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the first amendment in cyberspace. Among her publications on the latter topic is A Right to Read Anonymously: A Closer Look at "Copyright Management" in Cyberspace, 28 Conn. L. Rev. 981 (1996). She is a member both of the Panel of Academic Advisors to the American Committee for Interoperable Systems and the Committee of Concerned Intellectual Property Educators, an organization which is part of the Digital Future Coalition. Cohen previously practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. She received her A.B. from Harvard Radcliffe and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She is a former judicial clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Jarrett Collins founded TTC Ventures in 1995. He invests in private technology companies on behalf of the Thomson Corporation which, at over $8 billion in annual revenues, is one of the dominant information publishers in the world. TTC Ventures now has nine companies in its portfolio, all of which have a strong Internet focus. Currently, a director of CareerBuilder, The EC Company and FutureTense, Jarrett holds an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California, where he received the Outstanding Student Award from the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Prior to starting TCC Ventures, Jarrett was a principal in Copley Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital partnership that realized IPOs in nine of its sixteen investments

Jordan Crandall is an artist and media theorist whose work concerns the cultural and political implications of communications technology. He is director of the X Art Foundation, New York, and founding editor of Blast. He is also the author of Suspension (Documenta X and Walther Koenig, 1997) and is currently at work on Bodies, Machines, and Images, an anthology of his critical writing on new media, to be published in April 1999 in conjunction with a solo exhibition of his work at the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria. Crandall moderates an online symposium called "Artistic Practice in the Network" (information and archive at http://www.blast.org/eyeblast.html) and is also at work with Peter Weibel on a symposium and book project for the spring of 1999, whose topic is the "state of the image." He has participated in many international conferences including Artifices4 in Saint-Denis, Object vs. Pixels in Amsterdam, the film+arc Biennial in Graz, and the Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor. Additionally, Crandall has organized symposia for the American Center, Paris, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

Tiffany Danitz is a writer for Insight magazine at The Washington Times. Before joining the staff at Insight in 1996, Ms. Danitz worked on the Metro Desk for The Washington Times. Prior to this, Ms. Danitz worked with a series of nonprofit organizations dedicated to active nonviolence and conflict resolution. During 1993-1994, she worked in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the project coordinator for the Global Nonviolence Project with Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire. Just after returning to the United States, Ms. Danitz worked for six months in Los Angeles with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for the Study of Nonviolence as Program Director. There she developed and taught a nonviolence and conflict resolution curriculum to students in local schools where gang involvement is an ever-present danger. Ms. Danitz completed her Bachelor's degree in history at Mars Hill College in North Carolina and attended Harvard University in 1987 and Oxford University in 1989. She received her Masters in International Politics from American University in 1992. That same year, she was presented with the Reem Kabbani Peace Research Award for her academic research paper on the Velvet Revolution in the former Czechoslovakia.

Chris Dede is a Full Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he has a joint appointment in the Schools of Information Technology & Engineering and of Education. Dede is also a core affiliate faculty member in GMU's Institute for Public Policy. His research interests span technology forecasting and assessment, emerging technologies for learning, and leadership in educational innovation. He has been awarded a major grant from the National Science Foundation to develop educational environments based on virtual reality technology. He has just completed a one-year term as Senior Program Director at the NSF, helping to guide the initial development of their new $25-30M funded program, "Research on Education, Policy, and Practice." He has also been a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, and at NASA's Johnson Space Center. His funded research includes work for the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, NASA, Apple Computer, and the National Science Foundation. Under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency, he has traveled to nine countries to discuss the evolution of information technology in education.

W. Patrick Dickson is Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of the Technology Exploration Center at the College of Education, at Michigan State University. His work combines interests in human development, multimedia learning environments, and cross-cultural research. Through his participation on technology advisory committees at the university, state and public school levels, he is engaged in the challenge of integrating rapidly evolving new technologies into schools, universities, and teacher education. He has taught in the MSU Graduate Studies in Education Overseas summer programs in Bangkok and Valbonne. He has also taught short courses on portfolios and assessment and technology at many international schools throughout Asia. During the past year he has been the director of the LETSNet Project, funded by a $500,000 grant from Ameritech, to create resources on the World Wide Web to support teachers learning to use the Web in K-12 education. He is currently involved in the creation of a new public charter school academy at the Henry Ford Museum that opened in 1997. He is also a participant in a National Science Foundation grant to the Center for Microbial Ecology aimed at developing educational resources on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM to make work of the Center accessible to K-12, higher education and the general public. Dickson received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Joel Dreyfuss, a veteran journalist with broad experience in newspapers and magazines, is a Senior Editor at Fortune magazine. He rejoined Fortune from a position as the Editor-in-Chief and Vice-President of Our World News, a start-up national weekly which operated a news web site on the Internet for 18 months. Dreyfuss spent two and a half years as Editor-in-Chief and then as Associate Publisher/Editorial Director of Information Week, a leading computer industry news magazine. Dreyfuss was also the Editor of PC Magazine for three years, managing the day-to-day operations of the 1.1-million circulation biweekly. Dreyfuss has held editorial positions and written for various other papers and magazines, including USA Today, Black Enterprise magazine, the Associated Press, the New York Post, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, Emerge, Essence, Lear's, People, Playboy, Family Circle, the Village Voice, and Tikkun. Dreyfuss is a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and received the New York chapter's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. He holds a B.S. in Sociology from the City College of the City University of New York (CCNY) and was an Urban Journalism Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Bruce Droste, Director of The Virtual High School, is an educator and environmentalist. In 1993 Droste and Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts founded Second Nature, Inc., a nonprofit organization incorporating environmental principles in college and university curricula. Droste then served as President and COO of the company until 1996. He has been the Director of Special Projects and an educational consultant at EARTHWATCH, the international supporter of scientific and environmental research. He is the Founder and former Headmaster of the Atrium School in Watertown, Massachusetts. Prior to that he was a teacher and curriculum coordinator for the Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln, Massachusetts, where he was chairperson of the science and mathematics curriculum design committees and where he designed and implemented a K-8 environmental/outdoor education program in the early 1970s. He has presented for the Greater Boston Teachers Center and the National Science Teachers Association. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Youth Center in Aspen, Colorado; of the Education Committee of the Aspen Elementary School; and of the Long Range Planning Committee of the Aspen Country Day School. Droste holds degrees from Harvard University (Administrative Policy and Social Planning) and Marlboro College, and certificates of advanced study from Shady Hill School and Boston State College. He serves on a variety of boards, including those for The Trustees of Reservations, the Center For Sustainable Building & Technology, and Mobile Diagnostics, a not-for-profit mammography clinic on wheels targeting breast cancer prevention among higher risk groups. He is a founding board member of the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

Matt Drudge is creator of the online Drudge Report, a website devoted to current events. Drudge has been on the cutting edge of news reporting: he was first to break the Monica Lewinksy White House story in a series of exclusive reports. His web site is visited more than 6 million times a month, and he will soon host his own TV show on the Fox News Network. Drudge has no formal education; his last job was managing a gift shop for CBS-TV in Los Angeles. He is currently being sued for $30 million by President Clinton's senior adviser Sidney Blumenthal over a story published in the Drudge Report last summer.

"Two years ago I was selling T-shirts and now I've got the first lawsuit against a reporter supported by the President of the United States," Drudge said from his Hollywood apartment. He is 31.

E. David Ellington is Chairman, President & CEO of NetNoir Inc., the leading new media company promoting, creating, and distributing distinctive Black programming and commercial applications for all forms of interactive media. Prior to NetNoir, Ellington was a sole practitioner at the Law Offices of E. David Ellington in Los Angeles. His firm specialized in international, entertainment and multimedia/new technology law. At that time, he served as Chairman of the International Law Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Ellington began his legal career as a law clerk at the firm of McKenna & Cuneo in Los Angeles. He is a member of the State Bar of California. Ellington's civic activities include serving as chairman of the board of advisors of OpNet, the interactive media internship opportunities program; as member of the board of advisors of MediaLInk, the Bay Area Video Coalition's (BAVC) multimedia vocational training program; and as Commissioner and President of the Telecommunications Commission for the City and County of San Francisco. Ellington received a Bachelor's degree in History from Adelphi University and a Master's degree in Comparative Politics and government (subfield: Africa) from Howard University. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he concentrated on international, corporate and tax law.

Tom Feegel is Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of NetResponse. He is responsible for its strategic consulting services&$151;specializing in the company's direct-response and relationship marketing programs—and manages several of the company's large-scale client relationships in consumer marketing and content publishing. With a decade's experience in constructing winning marketing programs for online, print and broadcast media, Feegel also serves as the company's creative director. He has overseen high-profile launches and relaunches for commercial content clients such as iVillage and the New York Law Publishing Company. In addition, Feegel works with NetResponse clients such as Microsoft, American Express, Harvard Law School, MCI and Rogers Communications. Prior to this, Feegel served at Next Century Communications, NetResponse's parent company, as team leader in establishing the launch marketing plan and original positioning strategy for the First Virtual Internet Payment System, now the dominant Internet payment system for commercial transactions. He holds an M.A. from New York University and a B.A. from Boston College.

Martin Felsen is an architect working in Chicago, and an Instructor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After working for Eisenman Architects in New York and O.M.A. in Rotterdam, he established his own practice: Urban Lab, an office dedicated to the research and production of (material/virtual) urban environments.

Harvey V. Fineberg became Provost of the University in July 1997, following thirteen years as Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Public Health. As Provost, he works in close partnership with the President to address matters of university-wide concern. Among other things, he oversees academic programs and initiatives that involve two or more of Harvard’s nine faculties, supervises the University’s efforts in information technology, and helps to coordinate the work of the University’s central administration. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, he has devoted most of his academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision making. His past research has focused on the process of policy vaccines, and dissemination of medical innovations. He helped found and has served as president of the Society of Medical Decision Making and has also served as consultant to the World Health Organization. As a member of the Institute of Medicine, he has chaired and served on numerous panels dealing with topics of health policy, ranging from AIDS to new medical technology. Fineberg is co-author of the books: Clinical Decision Analysis, Innovators in Physician Education, and The Epidemic that Never Was, an analysis of the controversial federal immunization program against swine flu in 1976.

Jane E. Fountain is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is affiliated with the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, a joint activity of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for Business and Government. Fountain is also a member of the university-wide faculty in Organizational Behavior. She currently leads a collaborative, multidisciplinary action research effort whose objective is to build public and corporate policies to empower women in the Information Age. She was on the editorial board of Informatization and the Public Sector, the first international journal on the development, use, and effects of information technology in government. She co-edited Proposition 2: Its Impact on Massachusetts and co-authored Customer Service Excellence: Using Information Technologies to Improve Service Delivery in Government. Fountain has advised and consulted widely in the U.S. and abroad. Domestically, she has worked with the former U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the (former) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Information Agency as well as other Federal agencies and state governments. Internationally, she has consulted to governments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe and in Latin America. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association. Fountain holds Master's degrees from Harvard and Yale Universities and a Ph.D. in political science and organizational behavior from Yale University.

Joan M. Garry is the Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), the nation's largest gay and lesbian informational media advocacy organization. With media resource centers in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Atlanta and Kansas City, GLAAD's mission is to promote fair, accurate and inclusive representation as a means of challenging discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity. Prior to joining GLAAD, Ms. Garry spent seven years at Showtime Networks Inc. serving as Vice President of Business Operations. In the early eighties she was part of the management team which launched MTV Networks. Ms. Garry lives with her partner of 17 years and their three children in Montclair, New Jersey. She was the first woman in that state to legally adopt her partner's biological children. GLAAD recently released Access Denied, a groundbreaking study of Internet Filtering Software.

Bob Gett brings more than 25 years of IT leadership experience to his role as CEO at Viant, having served as CIO of two Fortune 500 companies. Most recently, as President of Cambridge Technology Partners North America, Gett guided the development of CTP's business strategy, methodology and execution ability. Under his leadership, CTP's revenue grew from $9 million to $120 million in six years. As president of Fidelity Software Development Company, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, Gett led Fidelity's IT strategy by introducing emerging technologies and advanced development capabilities into all companies within the Fidelity umbrella. As Managing Director and CIO of Smith Barney he oversaw the development of new sales, trading and operation systems. As a principal at Nolan, Norton & Co., Gett managed one of three operating units that executed IT strategy and management consulting for various Fortune 500 companies.

Shikhar Ghosh is Chairman and Co-founder of Open Market, Inc. He was named as one of the top "Entrepreneurs of the Year" by Business Week magazine in 1996. In May of 1997, he was appointed to the steering committee of the Inter@ctive Week Internet Index, a composite of 50 stocks that is designed to track the performance of the Internet sector. Ghosh has led Open Market, a leading provider of Internet commerce software, from inception through its IPO to the company's current period of growth and international expansion. Prior to founding Open Market in 1994 with MIT professor David Gifford, Ghosh was the CEO of Appex Corporation from 1988 to 1994. There he was instrumental in Appex's development of a payment system, clearinghouse, and call validation infrastructure for the cellular telephone industry. Its revenues grew from under $3 million in 1988 to over $100 million in 1994. Business Week selected Appex as the fastest-growing entrepreneurial company in the U.S. in 1990. Ghosh was previously a partner in the Boston Consulting Group where he developed business strategies for Fortune 500 companies, including major long distance, media and communications companies. Ghosh is a 1980 graduate of Harvard Business School.

Glen Gilbert is the Vice President of Development and Public Relations at SeniorNet, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching older adults to use computer technology and the Internet. Mr. Gilbert is responsible for creating content and building SeniorNet's two online communities (www.seniornet.org and AOL keyword SeniorNet). Mr. Gilbert graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in History and from Harvard Law School in 1989 where he wrote Superfund and Alternative Dispute Resolution, 16 ELQ 803 (1989) and Breaking the Superfund Settlement Logjam, American Arbitration Association Conference, 1990. Mr. Gilbert's writing has also been published in the Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, Prague Post and Toronto Star. Before joining SeniorNet, Mr. Gilbert was an attorney at Landels, Ripley & Diamond in San Francisco, a human rights consultant to the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, and a Visiting Professor of Law in Prague. As Legislative Counsel to the Pacific Island nation of Palau, Mr. Gilbert helped prepare the Republic to become an independent nation and join the United Nations in 1994.

John Gilmore is a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, dedicated to civil rights and civic responsibilities online, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors. He is also a founder of Cypherpunks, an informal group dedicated to public education and dissemination of cryptography. In addition, Gilmore is a co-founder of the service provider The Little Garden, now called TLGnet. TLGnet permits resale of the service provided without censorship. Author of many articles concerning privacy, free speech and technology, his previous work at Sun Microsystems involved architecture, design, implementation and debugging of Sun Workstations. He successfully fought federal cryptography policies relating to export regulations. Among his many projects, he is hoping to secure Internet traffic against wiretapping.

Max Gonçalves is CEO of Fenasoft, the world's largest computer trade show. He is credited with a major role in transforming Brazil from a technological backwater to a fast-growing high tech marketplace, staging his first fair more than a decade ago with just $250,000. Today the show draws one million–plus visitors each year and accounts for over $4 billion in sales. Gonçalves presides over eleven companies, selling products from CDs to smart cards. His first IT business was an electronic data processing bureau he founded in the late 1960s. Trained as a lawyer, he eventually built a career in computers; in the early 1980s he helped finance and develop software systems and sponsored seminars on software applications.

Peter Granoff, one of the leading wine experts in the United States, has been a professional wine buyer for more than 15 years. Before founding Virtual Vineyards, a direct-marketer of wines, specialty foods and gifts on the World Wide Web, Granoff had been the Sommelier and Wine Director for San Francisco's highly regarded Square One restaurant, where he earned the James Beard Foundation Sommelier of the Year award in 1990. Prior to that, he was Food and Beverage Director for the Stanford Court Hotel, and he has also worked in France and Switzerland. He was the 13th American to be admitted to the British Court of Master Sommeliers and currently serves as an examiner and a member of the board of directors for the Court's American chapter. Granoff is a staff lecturer at the Sterling Vineyards School of Service and Hospitality in the Napa Valley and makes frequent appearances as a speaker, panelist and teacher in a variety of consumer, Internet and wine industry-related forums. Launched in 1995, Virtual Vineyards was a pioneer in the area of Internet commerce and continues to win industry-wide awards and accolades as one of the Web's premier sites.

John Hagel is a Principal in McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley Office. He has worked primarily for clients in the electronics, telecommunications and media industries, with a particular focus on strategic management and performance improvement. Recently his client work has focused on network-based business initiatives and implementation of web-based strategies. Hagel is a leader of McKinsey's Global Interactive Multimedia Practice and McKinsey's Strategy Practice. Prior to joining McKinsey, Hagel served as Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning at Atari and as President of Sequoia Group, a systems house selling turnkey computer systems to physicians. Hagel also worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He has recently published articles in the Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal. His third book, Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities, published by Harvard Business School Press in 1997, is being translated into nine languages. Hagel received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

Morton H. Halperin is Senior Vice President of the Twentieth Century Fund/Century Foundation, based in its new Washington Office. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches at The George Washington University. Halperin served in the federal government in the Johnson and Nixon administrations and in the first Clinton Administration. Most recently, from February 1994 to March 1996, he served as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy at the National Security Council. In 1993 he was a consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and was nominated by the President for the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping. Earlier, he was a Senior Staff member of the National Security Council and worked in the Department of Defense where he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs), responsible for political-military planning and arms control. Halperin has also been associated with a number of think tanks, and from 1984 to 1992, he was the Director of the Washington Office of the ACLU. He has authored, co-authored and edited more than a dozen books including Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (1974), Nuclear Fallacy (1987) and Self-Determination in the New World Order (1992).

Peter F. Harter is Global Public Policy Counsel for Netscape Communications Corporation. He is responsible for Internet law and policy issues and strategy as well as traditional government affairs matters. He has worked on issues ranging from the Communications Decency Act of the 1996 Telecommunications Act to securities litigation reform. Currently he is engaged in modernizing government controls of encryption technology in the U.S. and overseas, copyrights issues, privacy and competition. Harter regularly supports Netscape technical standards activities, as well as its education technology marketing and community relations efforts. Additional interests include domain name management, Internet governance, infrastructure expansion and content control.

Larry Harvey is the Director of Burning Man. Founded in 1986 on a San Francisco beach, the art event has expanded to become an experiment in intentional community held annually in the Nevada desert during the week before Labor Day. In recent years the Internet has significantly affected the growth of Burning Man and created a year-round worldwide participatory community. Mr. Harvey designs and produces large scale interactive art performances and has lectured on such topics as the phenomenology of culture and the psychology of sacredness.

Brian R. Henley is Founder and CEO of InterZine Productions, Inc. InterZine was a venture capital backed start-up that became one of the leading producers of Internet sports sites including iGOLF, iSKI, Snowboarding Online, golfcourse.com, iBIKE, and iRACE. InterZine was acquired by Times Mirror Magazines in February of 1998, where Mr. Henley assumed the new position of Executive Director, Interactive Media. Prior to InterZine, Mr. Henley was a co-founder of Fairway Technologies, an IBM - Blockbuster Entertainment multimedia joint venture. He has also held several positions at IBM, including associate in their Fireworks Partners new venture investment arm. Henley graduated with honors from the University of Arkansas with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Stacy Horn is President and Founder of Echo, an electronic salon with over 3,000 members. Founded in 1990, Echo has a unique and eclectic population of artists, professionals, and writers, and is nearly 40% female. The Whitney Museum of American Art, Ms. magazine, the Village Voice, and High Times all have their own discussion forums on Echo. Horn is the author of a forthcoming book about virtual communities entitled Cyberville: Clicks, Culture and the Creation of an Online Town (Warner Books). She has a master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where she now teaches a course called "Virtual Culture." When not online, she's usually drumming. Her band, the Manhattan Samba Group, drums at SOB's (Sounds of Brazil) every Saturday night.

Caroline Minter Hoxby is the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Her primary fields of interest include labor economics, public economics, and the economics of education. Her recent research has included the market for higher education, public school finance, teachers' unions, competition among public schools, private school vouchers and charter school evaluation, and immigrants and minorities in higher education.

David Hughes is a partner of Old Colorado City Communications, an Internet wireless and custom communications development company. He has been developing and installing supporting online systems since 1979. He is concentrating on bringing high levels of connectivity at the lowest possible cost to the most remote, rural small towns and schools of the U.S. and several foreign countries. One of the major projects is Big Sky Telegraph in Montana, which involves linking 114 one-room schools to the Internet and setting up a telecommunications program allowing an MIT professor to teach rural area students the math and science of Chaos. In 1993 Hughes was awarded the Telecommunications Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is Principal Investigator of a study granted by the National Science Foundation to do field testing and research of wireless technologies, especially no-license spread spectrum devices for public education. He has also been working with research institutions in Ulaabaatar, Mongolia.

Caroline Hunter is a community and anti-apartheid activist and has been an educator for twenty-five years. She has taught math, science and GED preparation to high school students and adults in a variety of settings, including high school, alternative and achievement programs, preparation programs for medical and nursing schools, drug treatment and adult education programs, and prisons. She is currently a teacher at the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School and a student government advisor. She is co-founder of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement and was fired due to her organization of an international boycott against Polaroid and U.S. support of South African apartheid. Her efforts contributed to development of the dis-investment movement in the United States. She is co-founder of PANIC, People Against National Identity Cards, an organization devoted to increasing the public's awareness of growing threats to privacy via personal data systems. She was a member of a governor's committee on privacy and personal data whose efforts led to the citizen option to use the alternative number of a driver's license rather than a social security number. She is a founding member of the Benjamin Banneker Charter School in Cambridge, grades K-5, slated to grow to the eighth grade, with specialized curricula in math, science and computer technology.

Deborah Hurley is a Senior Research Associate in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and in the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government; she is also Founder and Executive Director of Terra Nova, the global public interest policy center for advanced technologies. From 1988 through 1996, Hurley was an official of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she had responsibility for legal, economic, social and technological issues related to information and communications technologies, biotechnology, environmental and energy technologies, technology policy, and other advanced technology fields. Shortly before her arrival at the OECD, Hurley received a Fulbright grant to undertake a study of intellectual property protection and technology transfer in Korea. From 1983 through 1988, Hurley practiced intellectual property law in the United States. As a consultant to UNIDO and as a lecturer at the International Law Institute in Washington, DC, Hurley also instructed government officials from developing countries in the intellectual property laws of developed countries and the contrast of these laws with intellectual property laws and technology transfer rules of developing countries. She is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department on International Communications and Information Policy and Co-Chair of its Working Group on Privacy, Security and Export Controls. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978 and received a law degree from UCLA Law School in 1983.

Larry Irving is Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Since his appointment by President Clinton in 1993, the focus of his work has been opening domestic and foreign telecommunications markets to competition, ensuring consumer choice and spurring development of advanced telecommunications and information infrastructures in rural and under-served areas. Irving serves as principal adviser to the President, Vice President and Secretary of Commerce on domestic and international communications issues, oversees the management of the Federal government's use of the radio spectrum and supervises programs that award grants to extend the reach of advanced telecommunications technologies to under-served areas. He represented the U.S. government as "Sherpa" (lead coordinator for the U.S. government) at the G-7's first Ministerial meeting on the Global Information Society in Brussels in 1995 and at the Information Society and Development Conference in South Africa in 1996. Irving was also a key member of the U.S. team that negotiated the World Trade Organization agreement on basic telecommunication services. Prior to joining the Administration, Irving was Senior Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance where he played a key role in the enactment of the Cable Television Consumer Protection Act of 1992. He served as Legislative Director and Counsel to the late Congressman Mickey Leland.

Linda A. Jackson is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. She earned a B.S. at Cornell University in Genetics and Microbiology, an M.A.T. in Science Education at Cornell University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Rochester. Her primary research interest is in stereotypes and prejudice, an area in which she has published 50 articles, presented 60 conference papers, and authored one book. Her interest in the Internet is a natural extension of her interest in stereotypes and prejudice. The Internet, as an emerging technology for education and job training, has the potential to narrow or widen existing social and economic gaps among racial, ethnic and gender groups. Jackson's current research focuses on how the Internet might narrow these gaps.

Andrea L. Johnson is a Harvard-trained law professor at California Western School of Law and Director of its Center for Telecommunications. Professor Johnson has served on San Diego Mayor Susan Golding's "City of the Future," examining ways to develop interconnected fiber optic networks, and on President Clinton's Transition Team for Science, Space and Technology. She has published extensively on telecommunications, and the use of technology in education both domestically and internationally. She developed electronic materials using a modular approach to learning that integrates skills into substantive material. Professor Johnson has also reviewed technology grants for the U.S. Department of Education and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Julia Johnson is a nationally-recognized authority on utility regulation. She is currently serving a two-year term as Chairman of the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC). She was first appointed to the Commission by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles in January 1993, and was re-appointed for a second four-year term beginning January 1997. Chairman Johnson serves as State Chair of the Federal/State Joint Board on Universal Service. This board is responsible for issuing recommendations to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the adoption of U.S. support mechanisms, including provisions for schools and libraries. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Communications Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). This Commission, which consists of utility regulators from across the nation, sets policies on issues relating to telecommunications. She is also a member of NARUC's Federal Legislation and Regulation Subcommittee.

David L. Johnston is Professor of Law at McGill University and is a 1965 graduate of Harvard Law School. He holds honorary doctorates from ten universities. Previously he was associated with the University of Toronto and was a Professor and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Western Ontario. From 1979 to 1994 he served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University. Johnston is the Founding Chairman of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, and former President of the Association of Canadian Universities. He was Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Information Highway to the Government of Canada and a chairman of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is author of many books, including Computers and the Law (1968); If Quebec Goes . . .The Real Cost of Separation (1995); Getting Canada OnLine: Understanding the Information Highway (1995); and Cyberlaw and Electronic Commerce (1997). He is currently President of the Board of Overseers at Harvard University (1997 98) and previously served on a number of University committees.

James D. Kamihachi is the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Economic & Policy Analysis. His department assesses the impact of OCC policies and regulations on national banks; analyzes the implications of major developments affecting the industry; monitors the financial health of the banking industry; develops quantitative measures of risk in bank portfolios; and conducts economic research on banking issues. He also coordinates the OCC's work on electronic money and banking issues. Prior to joining the OCC, Kamihachi served in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as Senior Advisor to the Administrator. He participated in the development of policy concerning regulation of corporate takeover activity.

Bruce P. Keller is a partner with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He specializes in copyright, trademark, false advertising and other intellectual property matters. He recently obtained summary judgment for the defendant in the Tasini v. New York Times et al. freelance writers copyright litigation and represented CompuServe in the Frank Music online music litigation. Keller also writes and lectures on intellectual property topics and contributed three chapters on copyright, trademark and obscenity to the recently published Internet and Online Law. He is a member of the advisory boards of BNA's Patent, Copyright and Trademark Journal and Electronic Information Policy and Law Report.

Anu Lamberg has served as the Head of Information Network Unit at the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Finland since 1990. She was the Chairman for the Steering Group for the Program of Development of Information Networks from 1995-1998 in Finland in permanent cooperation with Finnish media companies, tele-operators and the SME-sector and administration. She also served as Counselor at the Ministry dealing with Information Society issues on national, European Union and international level. In the late eighties, Lamberg was the Telecommunications Manager in Sanoma Osakeyhti, the largest media corporation in Finland, where she was responsible for strategy planning of the telecommunications policies for the whole of the media group. Prior to that, she was the Head of Department for networked office services in Telecom Finland and Deputy Manager of Department for research and development.

Mark Lemley teaches intellectual property, computer law, antitrust and regulation of the Internet, as Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law. He is counsel to the law firm of Fish & Richardson, where he litigates and counsels clients in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property and computer law. He is author of three textbooks and over twenty articles on these and related subjects and has testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission on patent and antitrust matters. He has chaired nearly a dozen major conferences on intellectual property and computer law, including "Computers Freedom and Privacy '98," and he was the 1997 Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Computers. Lemley received his J.D. from University of California at Berkeley and his A.B. from Stanford University.

Dorothy Leonard is the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. She teaches courses in managerial leadership, manufacturing, strategic capabilities, technology strategy and technology implementation. For companies such as Kodak, AT&T and Johnson & Johnson, she has conducted executive courses on a wide range of innovation related topics such as designing work groups, technology transfer during new product and process development and structuring new product development. Her major research interests include organizational innovation, technology strategy and commercialization. She is currently studying the generation, identification and management of knowledge assets in companies. Her book, Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sources of Innovation (1995) is being reissued in paperback in 1997.

Lawrence Lessig is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Professor at Harvard Law School. From 1991 to 1997, he was a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1989, and then clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace.

Lauren H. Levin is the Anti-Defamation League Eastern States Civil Rights Director. Based in Boston, she has responsibility for working with seven regional offices on civil rights issues, covering a twelve-state area. Her expertise includes combating anti-Semitism, advising on issues such as separation of church and state and free speech; working with diverse community leaders to respond to incidents of prejudice and bigotry; monitoring and exposing extremist group activities; and conducting hate crime training to law enforcement professionals. She served previously as Associate Southern Counsel in the Southeast Regional Office and led ADL's efforts to investigate and respond to Black Church arsons as well as security during the 1996 Olympic Games. Prior to joining ADL, Levin worked on hate crimes legislation as a legislative aide in the Georgia General assembly, practiced business immigration law in New York and was an attorney with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld in Washington, D.C.

Stuart D. Levi is an intellectual property attorney who heads the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Computer and Information Technology practice. He assists clients in exploiting and protecting their intellectual property in this area, advising on licensing, litigation, and other issues. His clients include software and network developers, Internet service providers, Web site designers, hardware vendors, and content providers. Prior to joining Skadden Arps, Levi was Director of Intellectual Property for Reuters America, Inc. and a Vice-President of Reuters New Media, Inc. He handled software, Internet, and on-line issues, and all legal matters as Reuters transitioned to its news operations to serve Internet and on-line customers. He was also responsible for negotiating Reuters' agreements to build electronic trading systems. Levi is the co-chair of the American Bar Association's Copyright Litigation Committee.

Eric Liftin launched MESH Architectures, designing physical and web site architecture, in September 1997. MESH is committed to integrating the realms of physical and virtual architecture. Liftin is also a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where he is researching "web urbanism." He earned a Master's degree in Architecture from Columbia, and a B.A. in Literature from Yale. After working at New York architecture firms, he helped design the first Firefly web site, then joined the startup company in 1996 as an interface architect. From his early involvement, Liftin has focused on bringing the spontaneity and excitement of urban life to the web, mixing people and information in creative ways.

Mark Mac Auley is currently a Major Accounts Manager for the Art Technology Group in Boston. Prior to coming to the Art Technology Group, Mac Auley worked at Wing.Net, a local ISP, starting in 1995 as the Director of Design bringing content development skills to Wing.Net for the first time and later leveraged his expertise and years of design experience on the road, as Wing.Net's Sales Manager. Mac Auley came to Wing.Net from NYNEX Information Technologies where he helped build the first version of the NYNEX Interactive Yellow Pages, bigyellow.com. Mac Auley is active in IT consulting for the nations utility companies, and teaches classes for a Direct Marketing Certificate Program started in 1995 at Merrimack College. He is also a Board nominee of the Enterprise Development Institute, a non-profit organization supporting entrepreneurs in the Boston area.

Bernard ("Bud") Mathaisel is the Executive Director and Chief Information Officer at Ford Motor Company, where he is the highest level executive responsible for information technology at one of the worlds largest and most successful industrial corporations. Information technologies meet with some of their harshest tests under his purview, as IT is brought to bear on the real life, no-nonsense business problems involved in re-engineering the auto industry for continued success in the next century. Before coming to Ford, Mathaisel served as Director of Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation, and he has achieved dramatic turnarounds as CIO in several different information systems organizations. Brought into the Walt Disney Company in the mid-1980s as CIO and part of the top management team, Mathaisel significantly realigned the Information Services Group at Disney.

Malcolm McCullough is Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His most recent book, Abstracting Craft, has explored tacit knowledge in digital design. Currently he is at work on a book about the influence of the virtual on place perception. Active in new media since 1982 and a professor since 1986, he has also served as a product manager with Autodesk and a visitor in residence at Xerox PARC. At Harvard he has taught studios on urban design, seminars on digital space, and workshops on interactive urban models. He is also a member of the mayor's advisory board for Boston 400, a long term vision forum for the city.

Doug Metz is Managing Director and General Counsel of the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc. Prior to joining WSWA in 1977, he served in the Ford Administration White House helping to organize and direct the first cabinet committee established to protect the individual's right to privacy against unwarranted government interference. Later, he was appointed Associate Director and General Counsel of the Council on International Economic Policy and Assistant Operations Director of the President's Economic Policy Board. He was a U.S. delegate to the International Energy Agency. Previously, Metz served as Vice President of Booz, Allen and Hamilton. He has been active industry and national associations including the boards of the National Association of Wholesalers, the American Society of Association Executives, the Coalition to Preserve the Integrity of American Trademarks (COPIAT) and the National Wine Coalition.

Arthur R. Miller is the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1971. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his law degree from Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he practiced law in New York City and taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. Among lawyers he is nationally known for his work on court procedure, a subject on which he has authored or co-authored more than twenty-five books. The general public, however, knows him for his work in the field of the right of privacy, a subject on which he has written, testified, debated, and helped formulate legislation. His book, The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers (1971), has been extremely influential. Since July, 1980, Professor Miller has been appearing on ABC's Good Morning America as the program's legal editor. He also comments regularly on legal topics for Boston's WCVB-TV, and he is the host of the weekly Miller's Law program on the Courtroom Television Network. He moderated the first online cybercourse sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, "Privacy in Cyberspace."

Geoffrey A. Moore is Chairman and Founder of The Chasm Group. Moore's clients include 3COM, AT&T, Autodesk, BBN Sprint, Cisco, Clarify, Hewlett-Packard, JD Edwards, Microsoft, and Oracle, as well as venture-funded start-ups backed by Institutional Venture Partners, Mayfield, Mohr Davidow, and Atlas Ventures. He is the author of several books, including Crossing the Chasm (1991), referring to a gap or "chasm" that innovative companies and their products must cross in order to reach the lucrative mainstream market. His other books include Inside the Tornado (1995) and the forthcomingThe Gorilla Game: An Investor's Guide to Picking Winners in High Technology, which will be available shortly. He co-authored his latest book with Chasm Group Managing Partner Tom Kippola and BancAmerica Senior Research Analyst Paul Johnson. Prior to founding TCG in 1992, Moore was a Principal and Partner at Regis McKenna, Inc. a leading high-tech marketing and communications company. For the decade prior, he was a sales and marketing executive at three different software companies: Rand Information Systems, Enhansys and Mitem.

Jerome T. Murphy is Professor of Education and Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A specialist in the politics of education, Murphy is a former math teacher who also served in the U.S. Office of Education and in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under President Johnson. He also staffed the President's Commission on White House Fellows and the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children. His research interests include educational policy and practices in South Africa and Australia. He is the author of Getting the Facts: A Field work Guide for Evaluators and Policy Analysts. He is editor of State Leadership in Education: On Being a Chief State School Officer. As Dean, he has led the development of new initiatives in educational technology and arts education.

William C. Myers is the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Internet Council, a position he has held since the Council’s founding in 1996. The Internet Council brings state lawmakers together with Members of Congress, Internet industry leaders and other opinion makers to define and advance policies which support the continuing growth of the Internet. In addition to his work with the Council, Mr. Myers is an adjunct fellow to The Progress & Freedom Foundation and a member of the Board of Directors for The Technology Network. He led the public policy activities for several key national and state research institutions. Immediately before joining the Council, he served as Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation, where he actively directed much of the Foundation’s ground-breaking work on information technology and telecommunications reform. He has also held senior policy management positions, with the American Legislative Exchange Council; directed the Center for State Policy; and led the South Carolina Policy Council as its Executive Vice President. He is the founding President of the State Policy Network, an association of state-based public policy research institutions.

Nicholas Negroponte is the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a founder and the Director of MIT's Media Lab. The Media Lab is a research center which focuses on the study and experimentation of future fomrms of human communication, from entertainment to education. Media Lab research is supported by Federal contracts and by more than one hundred and fifty corporations worldwide.

Nicholas studied at MIT and in 1968 he founded MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface. out of this experience came several influential texts, including "The Architecture Machine," "Soft Architecture Machine," and "Computer Aids to Design and Architecture."

Nicholas has been an MIT faculty member since 1966. He also has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the University of California, Berkeley; and Yale University. Nicholas travels extensively throughout the world as a lecturer, is senior columnist for WIRED magazine and is the author of the book Being Digital. In 1997, Nicholas founded the 2B1 Foundation, which will focus on the provision of computer resources and satellite access to the Internet for young children, notably in the poorest, most rural and remote parts of the world.

Peter G. Neumann is Principal Scientist of the SRI Computer Science Laboratory, where he has been since 1971. Part of the National Research Council's cryptography group study, Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society, he is also co-author of an earlier ACM cryptography study. He is co-author of a new report, The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow and Trusted Third-Party Encryption. Neumann has provided testimony, papers and articles on a number of computer-related topics, including risks and national infrastructures, and computer security in aviation. He was a member of the IRS Commissioner's Advisory Group until 1996. He was appointed to the U.S. General Accounting Office Executive Council on Information Management and Technology in November 1997.

Zar Ni founded the Free Burma Coalition, one of the Internet's biggest human rights and divestment campaigns. A leading advocate for human rights and democracy, he was born in Mandalay, Burma in 1963 and lived under the Socialist Military dictatorship of General Ne Win for 25 years. On the eve of democracy uprisings and ensuing massacres in 1988, he came to the United States for graduate studies. He studied at Mandalay University, the University of California at Davis and the University of Washington. Presently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Ni splits his time between completing his Ph.D. dissertation on the politics of education under Burmese military dictatorship (1962-88) and coordinating the Free Burma Coalition. His coalition work has been featured in numerous international and national publications, including USA Today, The New York Times, The Asia Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Village Voice, and The Nation. He has been blacklisted by the present military dictatorship in Rangoon, but he hopes to return to Burma to re-unite with his family in Mandalay in the near future.

David P. Norton is Founder and President of Renaissance Worldwide, Inc., an international consulting firm specializing in business strategy, performance measurement and organization renewal. Before Renaissance, Norton co-founded Nolan, Norton & Company where he spent seventeen years as President, prior to its acquisition by Peat Marwick. He has authored numerous works, including three Harvard Business Review articles, and is contributing columnist for the Journal of Strategic Performance Management. He has also recently co-authored, with Dr. Robert Kaplan, a book entitled The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (Harvard Business School Press). Norton is a Trustee of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a former Director of ACME (The Association of Consulting Management Engineers). He has served on numerous client steering committees, most recently receiving a Distinguished Service Award for his support to the Department of Defense on their approaches to Corporate Information Management. Norton earned his Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from Florida State University, and his M.S. in Operations Research from Florida Institute of Technology.

As dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. has launched "Visions of Governance in the 21st Century," a major project to examine and debate the role of government in the next century. The first book from the project is Why People Don't Trust Government. Nye is also interested in foreign policy and international politics. He returned to Harvard in December of 1995 after serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, where he won two distinguished service medals, and as chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Nye joined the Harvard faculty in 1964 and served as director of the Center for Science and International Affairs and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. From 1977 to 1979, Nye was deputy to the Undersecretary of State for security assistance, science and technology, and chaired the National Security Council Group on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. A former member of the editorial boards of Foreign Policy and International Security magazines, he is the author of numerous books and more than a hundred articles in professional journals and newspapers. His other recent books are Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (1990), and Understanding International Conflicts (1997).

Oliver Oldman is the Learned Hand Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School and for 25 years, was Director of the School's International Tax Program. He has been a law school faculty member since 1955. For ten years he was also Director of the School's program in East Asian Legal Studies where he currently serves as Senior Fellow and Advisor. He continues to teach part-time. His teaching interests have for many years centered on state and local taxes and finance in the U.S. and on comparative and international tax law, with special emphasis on taxes in the developing countries of the world. He is co-author, among many books, of State and Local Taxation (1997), State and Local Taxes and Finance (1974), and Taxation in Developing Countries (1964).

Maureen A. O'Rourke is an Associate Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law where she teaches courses on Commercial Law and Intellectual Property. O'Rourke's research interests include defining the relationship between the public intellectual property law and private law of contract with particular reference to the Internet. Her work on this topic has been published in the Duke Law Journal, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review and various other publications. Prior to coming to B.U., O'Rourke was an attorney at IBM and her responsibilities included working on the antitrust litigation involving the Open Software Foundation, Inc.

Lisa Kate Osofsky is Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She oversees an office of approximately seventy attorneys and advises the FBI Director and employees on matters ranging from criminal operations and administrative and international law to legislative drafting and analysis. Osofsky has responsibility for FBI policy regarding investigative approaches to crimes involving computers; she has focused on crimes committed against children through use of the Internet, use of computers by those engaged in terrorist activities, and domestic crimes conducted through use of computers. She also provides legal advice on matters involving the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Assistance Act (CALEA). Previously, Osofsky was Associate Director of the Office of International Affairs of the Department of Justice where she oversaw extraditions to and from the U.S., cross-border legal assistance and negotiation of extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties. She was Assistant United States Attorney in the northern district of Illinois and a Special Attorney in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, based in London. She is a 1987 graduate of Harvard Law School.

Norman J. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and Election Analyst for CBS News. He also writes for USA Today and a column for Roll Call newspaper. He is Co-chair with Leslie Moonves, President of CBS Television, of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. He is leading a coalition of scholars and others in a major effort to reform the campaign financing system. He has worked with Al Franken as a commentator and pollster for the Comedy Central Television Network's political coverage and is a senior advisor to the Times Mirror Center, now the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. His books include Lessons and Legacies: Farewell Addresses from the U.S. Senate and Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy. He writes frequently for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other major newspapers and magazines.

Stewart ("Stu") Personick is Vice President of Information Networking at Bellcore. Personick began his career at Bell Laboratories in 1967, and spent eighteen years as an individual researcher and research and development manager focusing on fiber optics technology and applications. Since 1985 he has managed organizations focusing on emerging telecommunications technology, systems, services and applications, and for the last several years has been heavily involved in industry and government activities related to the emerging National Information Infrastructure. Personick received his Bachelor's degree from CCNY and his Sc.D. degree from MIT. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He is a frequent lecturer on the NII and related telecommunications subjects, and the author of several books and numerous articles on telecommunications technology and applications.

Richard D. Pomp is presently the Alva P. Loiselle Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut Law School. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, NY, University of Texas and Boston College. From 1981 to 1987, Pomp was Director of the New York Tax Study Commission, a period when New York restructured its personal and corporate income tax and created an independent tax tribunal. He is currently a consultant to the U.S. Treasury on the state taxation of electronic commerce. He has also served as an expert witness in various courts and serves as a litigation consultant to law and accounting firms, and corporations. A consultant to cities and states, the Congress and others, he is the co-author with Oliver Oldman of a leading casebook in state taxation.

Virginia Postrel is the editor of Reason magazine. Her book, The Future and Its Enemies, will be published by The Free Press in December. She is a columnist for Forbes and its companion bimonthly technology magazine Forbes ASAP and a contributing editor to the online magazine IntellectualCapital.com. Her work also appears in such publications as The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Before coming to Reason, she was a reporter at Inc. and the Wall Street Journal.

Robert Reisner is Vice President of Strategic Planning at the United States Postal Service. In this position he was responsible for the Postal Service's Five-Year Strategic Plan, published in September 1997. Prior to his current role, Reisner served as Vice President, Technology Applications. In this role he was responsible for creative New Electronic Businesses following Vice President Al Gore's challenge to the nation to create an information superhighway. Prior to joining the Postal Service, Reisner was a management consultant specializing in strategic counsel to clients in the telecommunications and information industries and in creating new ventures. Among other ventures, he created a join venture Intersputnik-based satellite telecommunications company with the Russian Space Command. His work has also addressed such issues as cable regulation, telephone competition, energy policy and international telecommunications development. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School.

Margaret Riel is the Associate Director of the Center for Collaborative Research in Education in the Department of Education at the University of California in Irvine. She teaches graduate courses in school reform and technology. She has developed and researched models of network learning, specifically cross-classroom collaboration designs. She created the "Learning Circle" model of global team-teaching which is offered by the International Education and Resource Network. She also helped design and review the "Passport to Knowledge" electronic field trip to Antarctica via television and telecommunications, as part of a National Science Foundation project. She has authored a number of curriculum books for international programs. Her research articles on network learning have been published in national and international journals. Her recent publications focus on how Internet-based learning communities can be integrated with curriculum to form new contexts for learning. For links to web publications see: http://www.gse.uci.edu/mriel.html.

Gordon Ross is President and CEO of Net Nanny Software International Inc. and a computer and telecommunications engineer with 30 years of industry experience. Since 1993 Mr. Ross has steered Net Nanny Software International through various technology acquisitions and product developments. Net Nanny released the first filtering product of its kind in January 1995, and continues to be the leading developer of protects that allow individuals, schools and corporations to protect their digital data according to their own values. As the driving force behind Net Nanny's conceptual design and functionality, Ross has successfully applied his personal beliefs to his work, i.e., preserving free speech while allowing for the protection of children, organizations and computer data. Ross calls himself a grandfather who likes to "surf" with parents, teachers, and children, showing them the positive virtues of the Internet. Based on his technical background and values, Ross consults with the Clinton Administration, members of Congress, the Justice Department, U.S. Customs, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Federal Communications Commission, state and local governments, as well as privacy, child advocacy and parent/teacher groups. Ross trained in the U.S. Army as a communications specialist and later spent thirteen years in management at a major telecommunications carrier, BC Telecom, a GTE-operated company.

Marc Rotenberg is Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, D.C. and former head of the CPSR Washington office. He was counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee specializing in technology and the law. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, computer security, and communications privacy. He debated Senator Exon on CNN when the Communications Decency Act was introduced and FBI Director Sessions on ABC Nightline when the FBI wiretap bill was proposed. He helped organize grass roots campaigns against Lotus Marketplace and the Clipper encryption scheme, and is now coordinating the Internet Privacy Coalition. Rotenberg is secretary of Privacy International, an international human rights organization. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School.

Tony Rutkowski is the Principal of NGA Associates, Director of the Center for Next Generation Internet, and Staff Consultant to General Magic, Inc. His work spans 30 years in business and public/education sectors. He has served with General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American Engineering, General Electric, Evening News Association, the FCC, and the ITU. By profession he is an engineer and lawyer who is focused on recognizing strategically important development and turning them into business opportunities. Rutkowski currently serves on the board of Agent Society, Internet Law and Policy Forum, and the International World Wide Web Conference Committee, and has prepared reports for the Aspen Institute, the Rand Corporation, and the Register of Copyrights. He serves on several advisory boards, including the WWW Consortium, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Georgetown University Communication. His company, NGI Associates, provides consulting services for some of the world's leading corporations with the aim of shaping a comprehensive global Next Generation Internet Metavision that draws upon innovation from all sectors and disciplines.

William Sahlman is the Dimitri V. d'Arbeloff - Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics, also from Harvard. His research focuses on the investment and financing decisions made in entrepreneurial ventures at all stages in their development. Related lines of research concern the role of financial institutions in providing risk capital and the role of government policy in influencing capital formation in the entrepreneurial sector of the economy. Sahlman's most recent article, "How To Write a Great Business Plan" (Harvard Business Review, July/August 1997), describes the appropriate role of the business plan in new venture formation, whether in a new company or within an existing enterprise. Sahlman is Senior Associate Dean and Director of Publishing Activities at Harvard Business School. He is Chairman of the Board for Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, which is responsible for all external publishing activities, including the Harvard Business Review, case studies, Management Productions, HBS Press, and interactive media. From 1990 to 1991, he was Chairman of the Harvard University Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. He is a member of the board of directors of several private companies.

Gavriel Salomon currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Education at Haifa University in Haifa, Israel. Salomon has taught at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and Haifa University in Israel, as a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, Michigan, USC, and the University of Arizona in the U.S., and as a guest lecturer in Japan, Mexico, Spain, Norway, Canada, Holland, and Denmark. His field of study is cognition, learning, culture and technology, a field in which he has written and edited four books, one of which was declared a Classic Citation, as well as about 100 empirical and theoretical articles in various international journals. Salomon served as the Editor of the APA, Division 15 Journal Educational Psychologist, and as President of the Educational Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Center of Applied Social Research at Stanford. Salomon has received his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1968) in Educational Psychology and Communication.

Barbara L. Samson is co-founder of Intermedia Communications, having brought the concept and company into existence in September 1986. As co-founder, she served as President of the present company's predecessor from September 1986 to June 1987. Samson subsequently served as Vice-President and a Senior Vice-President managing all external communications, including regulatory and governmental affairs, investor and public relations and corporate communications for the company. Today, as the Founder and President of Samson Lifeworks, Barbara is working as an Executive in Residence and Visiting Professor at the University of South Florida to develop the Florida Center for Free Enterprise, a Center devoted to developing an entrepreneurial and free enterprise curriculum for the K-12 community throughout Florida. She was the Florida Statewide Chairperson for NetDay96-Florida, a grassroots, volunteer initiative to provide the inside wiring infrastructure to give all schools in Florida, public and private, Internet access. She received her Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications from the University of Florida and her MBA from the University of South Florida, where she was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1993. She was later awarded the Ernst & Young 1997 Florida Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Communications.

Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems and in the School of Law where she is Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law. In 1997 she was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is also a Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. As a Contributing Editor of the computing professionals' journal, Communications of the ACM, she writes a regular "Legally Speaking" column. She serves on the LEXIS-NEXIS Electronic Publishing Advisory Board and on the editorial boards of the Electronic Information Law & Policy Report and the Journal of Internet Law. A 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, she practiced law as an associate with the New York law firm Wilkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to more academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.

Saskia Sassen is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University and serves on the faculty of the School of Public Affairs. She will be joining the University of Chicago, Faculty of Sociology, in the Fall of 1998. Her latest books are Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization (Columbia University Press 1996) and Globalization and Its Discontents (New Press 1998). She is also the author of the classic The Global City. Sassen is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.

Marlene Scardamalia is a Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where she has served as Head of the Center for Applied Cognitive Science. Prior to her tenure there, Scardamalia was Chair of Developmental Psychology at York University. Scardamalia's work has led to several honors and awards, including the Canadian Psychology Foundation award for research and innovation, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and membership in the National Academy of Education and in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Human Development Program. In 1993-1994 she was a Scholar-in-Residence at the American Institutes for Research in California, where she conducted an international study of school reform programs. Her books include The Psychology of Written Composition and Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise (with Carl Bereiter).

Jorge Reina Schement is Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy, in the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University. His book credits include Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age (Transaction 1995); Competing Visions, Complex Realities: Social Aspects of the Information Society (Ablex 1988); and Spanish-Language Radio in the Southwestern United States (Texas 1979). He is currently writing The Wired Castle, a study of information technology in American households. His research interests focus on the social and policy consequences of the production and consumption of information. A Latino from South Texas, he holds a special interest in policy as it relates to ethnic minorities. Schement's policy research contributed to a Supreme Court decision in Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission et al. In 1994, he served, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, as Director of the FCC's Information Policy Project. He has served on advisory and steering committees for the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council, to name just a few. He is a member of the boards of directors of the Media Access Project, Libraries for the Future, and the Benton Foundation. He is also a member of advisory boards to the Advertising Council, the American Libraries Association, the Tomás Rivera Center, and the Center for Media Education, as well as a participant in the National Latino Telecommunications Taskforce.

Jim Schindler is the Information Security Program Manager for Hewlett-Packard. He has been with HP for over 20 years and has worked in the area of information security since 1983. Prior to joining HP, Schindler worked in the aerospace and defense industry as a Systems Analyst for seven years with McDonnell-Douglas and TRW. He is responsible for ensuring that HP's products meet or exceed customer requirements for information security including operating system security, network security, data base security, and application security across the HP product offering. In his current position as Security Program Manager, Schindler is the focal point for commercial and government information security issues including confidentiality, integrity, and availability. He has been very actively involved with The OpenGroup Security SIG where he has served two terms as Co-Chair; one of the primary authors of the OSF Security Strategy; and actively involved as one of HP's two representatives to the International Information Integrity Institute (I-4).

Andrew L. Shapiro writes about law, politics, and technology. He is a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and a consultant for The Twentieth Century Fund, a New York City think tank, for which he is writing a book on the politics of new media. Previously, he was a Fellow at the Fund and Executive Director of its Working Group on Campaign Finance Litigation. A contributing editor at The Nation, Shapiro has written regularly for the magazine since 1991. His writing has also appeared in diverse publications including The American Prospect, Feed, International Herald Tribune, Lingua Franca, The New Republic, New York magazine, The New York Observer, The New York Times, Salon, Spin, Wired, and the Yale Law Journal. Shapiro's 1995 Nation article "Street Corners in Cyberspace" was chosen by Project Censored as one of its top ten articles of the year. Shapiro is a member of the Aspen Institute's Working Group on Digital Broadcast and the Public Interest, which will make recommendations to the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. Shapiro graduated from Brown University in 1990, and in 1995 from Yale Law School.

Roger S. Siboni has spent his career advising technology-based organizations in the areas of finance, strategy, mergers and acquisitions. As Deputy Chairman and COO at KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP, a worldwide accounting and consulting organization, Siboni is responsible for strategic direction and day-to-day operations. Before taking the helm, Siboni was National Managing Partner of the information, communications, and entertainment (ICE) practice and a member of the firm's management committee. In that role, he led KPMG's effort to serve clients worldwide in the fields of semiconductors, software, computers and peripherals, telecommunications, cable TV, broadcasting, entertainment, publishing and advertising. He has counseled many of the prominent enterprises driving the convergence among industry sectors and development of the information superhighway, as well as having testified before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and the U.S. Treasury Department, and addressed groups within the European Congress on Information Technology, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the World Trade Institute.

Marvin Sirbu holds a joint appointment as Professor of Engineering and of Public Policy, in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His work concerns how new communications technology impacts both public regulation and corporate decision making, and conversely how public policy influences the development of new information technologies. In 1989 he founded the Information Networking Institute at CMU supports interdisciplinary research and education at the intersection of telecommunications, computing, business and policy studies. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon in 1985, Sirbu taught at the Sloan School of Management at MIT where he also directed its Research Program on Communications Policy. Before moving to the Sloan School in 1984, Professor Sirbu spent 10 years at MIT's Center for Policy Alternatives, where he conducted research on office automation, electronic mail, and the role of government policy in stimulating innovation and the growth of high technology industries. Sirbu has served on numerous advisory panels for the National Research Council and the Office of Technology Assessment. Sirbu received his S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

Yesha Y. Sivan is a lecturer at the Tel Aviv School of Education where he examines the meanings of the "knowledge age." He holds a Doctorate from Harvard's Graduate School of Education where he studied the roles of standards and their potential in linking the cultures of business, education, and technology. He earned a Master's degree in Technology in Education from Harvard and a Bachelor's degree in the areas of education and cognitive sciences from Tel Aviv University. His professional experience includes the analysis and development of learning systems for military, school, and corporate environments. In addition, Sivan is Chief Scientist at a new start-up company called The Knowledge Infrastructure Laboratory.

Warner V. Slack is Co-President of the Center for Clinical Computing (CCC), an organization, in conjunction with Harvard Medical School, responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating an integrated, hospital-wide clinical computing system that is used in patient care at Beth Israel and Brigham and Women's hospitals in Boston. Slack is also Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the Editor-in-Chief of M.D. Computing. He is the author of Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care, recently published by Jossey-Bass. A neurologist by training, his early work in computer-based medical interviewing at the University of Wisconsin led to the development of the first computer-based medical history. Slack has done extensive research in the field of patient-computer dialogue. He has developed and studied programs that provide direct assistance to the patient in the management of common, important medical and psychological problems. He was an early advocate of the patient's right to participate as partners with their clinicians in decisions about diagnosis and treatment.

Brian Smith is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory. His research concerns the development of new technologies for education and training, concentrating on collaborative environments for storytelling. He received his Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences from Northwestern University, where he designed artificial intelligence and multimedia systems for high school classrooms. He heads the Everyday Media Group at the Media Lab and collaborates closely with companies such as Eastman Kodak and Bell South Enterprises in formulating new ways to learn though multimedia story construction.

Tom Smuts is an investment banker in the Media and Telecommunications Group at Lehman Brothers in New York City. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he was Director of Operations and Development at Americast, a new media programming and technology development joint venture in Los Angeles. A 1996 graduate of Harvard Law School, Tom worked with Professor Charles Nesson, David Marglin, and Jonathan Zittrain to organize and teach the first classes about the Internet ever offered at Harvard Law School. He is happy to be back.

Jill Stempel has worked as a journalist for CyberSleaze since 1996. Her work has been the topic of considerable press coverage including feature articles in US magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and the Chicago Tribune. She frequently appears as a guest gossip columnist on various radio shows and as a correspondent on the Gossip Show. Prior to that, she worked as a freelance web site producer, creating the Melrose Place web site. She also wrote a permanent column called "Melrose in a Minute" and worked for On Ramp Inc. as a webwriter and general "girl Friday" for Adam Curry at his small (at the time) web shop. Stempel pursues a side career as a freelance music journalist. Her music articles have appeared in One World magazine, SLAP magazine, THRASHER magazine, Smug magazine, Pulp magazine and AIRSHOP. She was born in Lusaka, Zambia, and is a graduate of Princeton University.

Other than a 1981 B.A. from Boston University, Neal Town Stephenson has essentially no credentials or qualifications in the normal senses of those terms. The maternal side of his family consists of more or less colorful Illinoisians from diverse walks of life. On the paternal side, he is the son of an electrical engineering professor, who was the son of a physicist, who was the son of a Classics professor, who sprang from a long line of ministers going all the way back to Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1630, when his earliest American ancestor, one William Town, settled in the vicinity of Salem. Two of Mr. Town's daughters (Rebecca Nourse and Mary Estey—spelling will vary) were hanged as witches. His male descendants, for the most part, lived their lives as if they were determined to prove that not every old New England WASP family is necessarily a wealthy one.
   The gradual descent of the Town-Stephensons from Puritans to martyrs to ministers to classicists to scientists has now reached a new level in Neal, who is a novelist. His first published work was The Big U (1984), an uneven satire mostly devoted to venting spleen at large universities, followed by Zodiac (1987) which was an adaptation of the hard-boiled detective genre to a new setting: toxic waste crime in Boston Harbor. Zodiac quickly developed an enthusiastic following among water pollution control engineers. It was also read, though rarely bought, by many radical environmentalists. Stephenson's next published book was Snow Crash (1991). Unlike the first two, it was marketed more as a science fiction novel. By those standards it sold vigorously and, if anecdotal evidence is to be believed, influenced young, science-fiction–reading persons involved in the high tech industry—particularly as it concerns the global Internet. This is as good a place as any to mention that Stephenson has been programming computers in one form or another since the age of fourteen, and continues to do so sporadically.
   Stephenson's next novel, The Diamond Age, was published in 1994 and takes place in a future world where the human race has divided along cultural lines into a large number of autonomous diasporas called phyles, some of which are continuations of older traditions (e.g., neo-Victorians, Confucians, Orthodox Jews) and some of which are more recently coined. The Diamond Age was sufficiently well received by science fiction readers and critics to win the 1996 Hugo Award for best novel, as well as a Locus Award, and to be nominated for the Nebula Award.
   The perception, among many editors, that Stephenson has an affinity for high-tech persons and subjects, has landed him diverse writing jobs for outlets such as Wired. In particular he wrote a very long article about the submarine cable industry that appeared in the January 1997 issue of that magazine. He has also published short pieces in Time, The New York Times, Forbes, The New Republic, Spin, and others. He has also written for the movies, though efforts to produce films based on his works have so far only led to more efforts.
   For the last two years Neal Stephenson has devoted most of his time to working on a cycle of novels on the general subject of cryptology. One of these, tentatively entitled A Constellation of Doorways, is slated to be published early in 1999.

Neil Tagare is the Chairman and CEO of the CTR Group, Ltd. At age 27 he authored the feasibility study that led to the creation of the Fiberoptic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) undersea cable project. He later worked as Executive Vice President, Marketing & Business Development for NYNEX Network Systems (Bermuda) Ltd. He successfully negotiated almost all of FLAG's 13 landing party agreements. Tagare introduced privatization of the submarine cable industry in some of the toughest countries in the world, such as India, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and China. Tagare holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Mysore University in India, an M.B.A. from Texas Christian University, and a P.M.D. from Harvard Business School.

David L. Tennenhouse is Director of DARPA's Information Technology Office, where he is responsible for information technology issues of strategic concern, including advanced computer architectures, operating systems, networks, spoken language systems, collaboration tools and visualization software. David is on loan to DARPA from MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science and Sloan School of Management, where his research has focused on systems and strategy issues related to distributed computing, telecommunications, and the impact of information technology on organizations. Tennenhouse has been one of the pioneers of ATM-based networks and recently led projects investigating active networks, software radio, desktop multimedia and software-based sample processing. At MIT's Sloan School, Tennenhouse was a participant in the research initiative to "invent" the organizations of the 21st century. He has also contributed to the development of the Chief Networking Officer (CNO) course, has lectured in the Sloan Senior Executive's Program and is on the advisory board of the MIT Research Program on Communications Policy. Tennenhouse studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees. In 1989 he completed his Ph.D. at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and joined the faculty of MIT.

Betty J. Turock, librarian, educator, lecturer and consultant, is past President of the 58,000 member American Library Association. As President, Turock focused on "Equity on the Information Superhighway," an initiative addressing just and equitable access to electronic information for all people, all around the world. She had a number of leadership positions within the ALA, as well has held a variety of management posts. Among these, she served as Assistant Director, then Director of the Montclair, NJ, Public Library, Assistant Director of the Rochester and Monroe County (NY) Library System, and Head of Extension Services at the Forsyth County (NC) Library System. Currently she is a professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of more than 75 publications and the founding editor of The Bottom Line: A Financial Magazine for Libraries. Her book, Serving the Older Adult, published in 1984, is still considered a definitive resource in the field. She is a member of the boards of the Freedom to Read Foundation; the Fund for American's Libraries; Libraries for the Future, TelecomInternet, Inc. and Intellicom, Inc., to name just a few.

Annie Valva is the Director of Technology for the Interactive Media Department at WGBH Educational Foundation. She is currently spearheading WGBH's Online efforts to produce more interactive web pages for programs such as NOVA, THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, Arthur, ZOOM, and special NOVA/PBS Online Adventures. During the past year she has experimented with Intel's Intercast technology for broadcasting web pages over television airwaves, a Backweb push channel for personalizing web content, and Live Real Audio events with simultaneous multicast from such places as the Death Zone of Mount Everest which was part of a NOVA/PBS Online Adventure to the highest peak in the world. Before coming to WGBH, Valva worked as a digital artist, photographer, and systems integrator for over nine years in Silicon Valley at IBM and Tandem Computers and MetaDesign in San Francisco. She received her Master's degree in Educational Technology from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she studied photojournalism and the study of social change. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, Ms., San Jose Mercury News, and a variety of interactive media products.

Peter Wayner is the author of six books on a variety of technical topics. These include Digital Cash, Disappearing Cryptography, and Digital Copyright Protection. His work appears frequently in The New York Times and BYTE magazine.

Kevin Werbach is Counsel for New Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is responsible for developing Internet policy initiatives, analyzing energy communications technologies and advising the FCC Chairman and Commissioners on Internet related matters. He leads the FCC's efforts to address issues such as Internet telephony, network congestion, electronic commerce and broadband deployment. He is author of "Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy," the first comprehensive analysis of the implications of the Internet for the communications industry and the FCC. He organized the FCC's first Bandwidth Forum; he speaks worldwide on policy issues relating to the Internet. He is also a WWW site architect and is author of The Bare Bones Guide to HTML. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School where he served as Publishing Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Wendy D. White is Director of the Committee on International Organizations and Programs (CIOP) at the National Research Council (NRC). Her office evaluates the direction of international science and technology (S&T) and advances U.S. participation in international organizations and programs. From 1989 through 1996, she directed a project at the NRC that examined the ways in which information and communication technologies could improve scientific collaboration in Africa and among African researchers and their colleagues in other countries. This project culminated in the publication of the Technology Fact Sheets and of Bridge Builders: African Experience with Information and Communication Technologies. Since joining the NRC in 1979, she has worked in more than 35 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. She holds degrees in French and History from Macalester College, a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of Minnesota, and a post-graduate certificate in publishing from George Washington University.

Tatia L. Williams is a senior advisor to Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the NTIA at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Since 1994, Williams has also served as the Acting Director of NTIA's Minority Telecommunications Development Program. Prior to joining NTIA, Williams spent eight months as a special counsel to the President in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel where she was involved in the selection of Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officials. Williams also served as a lawyer on President Clinton's Transition Team. Prior to her work at the White House, Williams was an associate with the law firm of Simpson Thacher and Bartlett in New York City where she specialized in corporate banking law. She received a B.A. with high distinction from the University of Virginia where she was an Echols Scholar and a member of the Distinguished Majors Program. She received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1990.

Ernest J. Wilson has been Director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland/College Park since 1995. He also holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Departments of Government and Politics, and African-American Studies. From 1993-95, Wilson served in several policy positions, as Director of International Programs and Resources on the National Security Council, The White House; as Director of the Policy and Planning Unit of the Office of the Director, US Information Agency; and Deputy Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. He has over 25 years of experience in research, the media, policy and academia in the areas of the impact of information technology on governance, development and conflict, trade relations energy and international development, especially in Africa. He has directed several major research projects concerned with the link between information infrastructure, conflict management and trade relations, including "The Impact of New Information Technologies on Conflict Management and Development in Africa" of the Leland Project on Internet Connectivity in Africa. He is Co-Editor of National Information Initiatives: Vision and Policy Design (MIT Press) with Brian Kahin; and Co-author of "The U.S. and Africa: Toward a New Relationship," a Ford Foundation study, with David Gordon and Stephen Cashin.

William Julius Wilson is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. He is the recipient of 27 honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, and the University of Amsterdam in Holland. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society. He is also past President of the American Sociological Association, and is a MacArthur Prize Fellow. In June 1996 he was selected by Time magazine as one of America's 25 Most Influential People. He is the author of numerous publications and is a member of numerous national boards and commissions, including the President's Commission on White House Fellowships, the National Urban League, The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The Twentieth Century Fund, and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Martha Stone Wiske is Co-Director of the Educational Technology Center and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on the processes of individual, organizational, and systemic learning associated with the improvement of public schools, with a special focus on the role of new technologies. She also studies the interaction between developments in telecommunication technologies and advances in educational theories and practices. Dr. Wiske is the co-editor of Software Goes to School: Teaching for Understanding with New Technologies (1995) and editor of Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice (1998). Her current projects include the development of an online learning community (at http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent) to support school people and others in using the Teaching for Understanding framework to improve the design, enactment, and assessment of learning with new technologies.

Christopher Wolf, a partner at Proskauer Rose law firm, specializes in high technology law, especially with respect to the emerging law of the Internet. He brought the first lawsuits challenging copyright infringement of sound recordings and is a frequent commentator on Internet and technology legal issues. His litigation victories include a case for the Macmillan Publishing Company in a federal court libel action arising out of the publishing of Moscow Station which portrayed the so called "sex for secrets" scandal at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The case was won on summary judgment. He advises corporations on the range of legal issues implicated in the use of the Internet in commerce and in the workplace. He chairs Proskauer's EMIT (Entertainment Media and Information Technology) practice group. His community service includes board membership with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Anti-Defamation where he chairs the Internet Law Committee, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and others.

Peter Yip is a co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman of China Internet Corporation (CIC). CIC has been responsible for the creation of China Wide Web, (CWW), an online business information and communication system that spans China. CWW is supported through a series of strategic alliances with the world's leading news and information corporations, including Bloomberg, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Dun & Bradstreet, Nikkei, Thomson, Xinhua News, MSNBC and Financial Times. Yip's primary responsibilities at China Internet are to 1) liaise with institutional investors and concluded corporate investors from Bechtel, New World Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, Bay Networks, Mitsui & Co. and 2) structure strategic partnership with world class pioneers such as Netscape, PointCast and America Online. Yip has over two decades of successful entrepreneurial experience in media and telecommunication, technology investment and technology transfer. Prior to China Internet, Yip successfully started a network communication company, and guided the company to major success. He subsequently sold the company to MCI. Yip previously held management positions at KPMG, and Wharton Applied Research. Yip received his M.B.A. from Wharton School and his M.S.E.E. and B.S.E.E. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dorothy Shore Zinberg is a Lecturer in Public Policy and a Faculty Associate in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. A biochemist or ten years at Harvard Medical School, she later received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, and has since worked in the field of social science. Her research focuses on international human resources in science and engineering, and the impact of technology on work, careers, research universities and other formal institutions. She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of Directors of General Scanning, Inc. Zinberg has taught in the course "Law, Technology, and Society" at Harvard Law School, and currently teaches "Issues in Science, Technology and Public Policy" at the Kennedy School of Government. The author of many books and articles, she is at work on the second volume of The Changing University, which examines the impact of biotechnology and the information technologies on universities. In addition, she writes a monthly column for The London Times Higher Education Supplement.