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Biography
Although often mistaken for other unreconstructed relics of the failed social policies of the Sixties, Paul Jones is the Director of ibiblio.org, a project that includes the “Site Formerly Known as MetaLab” and SunSITE, The Public’s Library — a large contributor-run digital library. Besides speaking at several conferences worldwide, Jones teaches on the faculties of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library Science. He can be found many places on the Internet. He was the original manager of SunSITE.unc.edu, one of the first websites in North America, and is co-author of The Web Server Book (Ventana, 1995, rereleased as The Unix Web Server Book, Second Edition Ventana, 1997). Jones is also authored articles on digital libraries for Communications of the ACM in May 2001 and February 2002. Jones has an additional on-going research interest in open source and sharing communities and information policy issues as well as being an actively publishing poet. He is the editor of the Internet Poetry Archives, published with UNC Press. Jones is a founding board member of the American Open Technology Consortium, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chapel Hill Public Library, and a board member of the Linux Documentation Project. But he is most pleased to have been admitted into the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists and to have been selected in April 2003 as Best Geek in the Research Triangle by the Independent Weekly.
Overview
Renaissance People portrays the people behind scientific discoveries, technological innovations and inspirational teaching in the sciences, mathematics, engineering and computing. These profiles showcase not only their talents and achievements, but the diversity of their backgrounds and of the experiences that led them to become leaders in their fields. These are the people who educate our young people, conduct research that will lead to important discoveries, and develop the technologies that enable everything from commerce to entertainment to telemedicine. Their stories illustrate the challenges and triumphs that come with being a pioneer and a leader in one of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Our latest Renaissance People profile features Major David French, the deputy director of the Air Force Center for Rapid Product Development at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Biography
Although often mistaken for other unreconstructed relics of the failed social policies of the Sixties, Paul Jones is the Director of ibiblio.org, a project that includes the “Site Formerly Known as MetaLab” and SunSITE, The Public’s Library — a large contributor-run digital library. Besides speaking at several conferences worldwide, Jones teaches on the faculties of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library Science. He can be found many places on the Internet. He was the original manager of SunSITE.unc.edu, one of the first websites in North America, and is co-author of The Web Server Book (Ventana, 1995, rereleased as The Unix Web Server Book, Second Edition Ventana, 1997). Jones is also authored articles on digital libraries for Communications of the ACM in May 2001 and February 2002. Jones has an additional on-going research interest in open source and sharing communities and information policy issues as well as being an actively publishing poet. He is the editor of the Internet Poetry Archives, published with UNC Press. Jones is a founding board member of the American Open Technology Consortium, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chapel Hill Public Library, and a board member of the Linux Documentation Project. But he is most pleased to have been admitted into the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists and to have been selected in April 2003 as Best Geek in the Research Triangle by the Independent Weekly.
Overview
Renaissance People portrays the people behind scientific discoveries, technological innovations and inspirational teaching in the sciences, mathematics, engineering and computing. These profiles showcase not only their talents and achievements, but the diversity of their backgrounds and of the experiences that led them to become leaders in their fields. These are the people who educate our young people, conduct research that will lead to important discoveries, and develop the technologies that enable everything from commerce to entertainment to telemedicine. Their stories illustrate the challenges and triumphs that come with being a pioneer and a leader in one of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Our latest Renaissance People profile features Major David French, the deputy director of the Air Force Center for Rapid Product Development at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Other featured Renaissance People
Joyce Rudinsky is an artist and associate professor in the department of communication studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Her visual and electronic art is often interactive and examines how technology changes people’s perceptions and the way they experience and interact with art and other human artifacts. Rudinsky was a RENCI Faculty Fellow during the 2007-2008 academic year, when she worked with RENCI staff to create Spectacular Justice, a multimedia installation in RENCI’s Social Computing Room that examined the death penalty from a variety of perspectives. She also holds a fellowship from the UNC Chapel Hill Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Rudinsky’s work is both conceptual and technical. Her projects use video projection, live performance, sound, and interactivity to create an immersive environment where a viewer is able to explore and investigate through a variety of aural, visual and spatial perceptions.
Major David French is the deputy director of the Air Force Center for Rapid Product Development at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and was commissioned via Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama in May 1995. He has held numerous assignments over his 15-year career, including service as an aircraft maintenance officer on the MC-130E Combat Talon I special operations aircraft and as an instructor in the department of astronautics at the United States Air Force Academy. He completed his master’s at the Air Force Institute of Technology in 2003 and was selected to take part in the AFIT Civilian Institution program, which allows Air Force personnel to attend universities to receive advanced education and training in highly technical subjects. Major French chose to attend North Carolina State University, where he studied aerospace engineering and recently completed his Ph.D.
Media artist and scholar William Seaman has exhibited numerous installation works and commissions around the world. His work includes performance and dance collaborations, video screenings, and many articles, essays and reviews in books and catalogues. His creations explore an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means. A self-taught composer and musician, Seaman is currently working on a series of art/science collaborations, poetic installations, scientific/conceptual art research papers and a book in collaboration with the scientist Otto Rössler. He is also collaborating with artist and computer scientist Daniel Howe on works exploring artificial intelligence and creative writing and multimedia; neural scientist and artist Timothy Senior on an expanded approach to neural nets; and computer scientist and experimental writer Patrick Harron on a generative database project. In the 1990s Seaman created “The World Generator/The Engine of Desire,” a digital machine that generates virtual surroundings, with programmer Gideon May. Now he is working with May and Duke University visualization expert Rachael Brady to rework that project as an open source tool. Seaman is a professor in the art, art history and visual studies department at Duke University. Check out his website for more information.
Seaman’s latest work, “The Architecture of Association,” will be featured in the Social Computing Room of RENCI’s engagement center at the UNC Chapel Hill as part of the Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (CHAT) Festival on Feb. 16-20, 2010.
Frances M. (Billie) Richardson, professor emeritus of biological and agricultural engineering at NC State University, received a B.S. in chemistry from Roanoke College in 1943 and an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati in 1947. From 1943 to 1949 she held several chemist positions. From 1951 to 1980, she held positions as research associate and then research associate professor in NC State University’s department of engineering research. She was the first woman faculty member of the College of Engineering and the first tenured female faculty member. Richardson founded and served as the first president of the North Carolina Society of Women Engineers. She was also a mentor to many of its members. From 1980 to 1983 she was associate director of NC State University’s engineering operations program. After working in the dean’s office of the College of Engineering, in 1990 she joined the faculty of the NC State department of biological and agricultural engineering as a professor. With her background in chemistry, Richardson held numerous research and teaching positions in several engineering specialties related to chemistry, physics, nuclear engineering and biomedical engineering. She won national recognition for her contributions to the field of rheology, the science of the flow of materials. She is now an active retiree living in Raleigh.
Meg Urry is the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University and Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Her scientific research focuses on supermassive black holes in galaxies, and she has published over 150 refereed articles in scientific journals. She came to Yale in 2001 from her tenured position on the senior scientific staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which runs the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. Urry has worked hard to increase the number of women in the physical sciences, organizing national meetings on women in astronomy in 1992 and 2003, leading the U.S. delegation to the first international meeting on Women in Physics in Paris, France in 2002, chairing the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy for the American Astronomical Society, and editing the STATUS newsletter. In 2007, she was appointed the first woman Chair of the Department of Physics at Yale. Urry completed her undergraduate work at Tufts University and received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University.
Rachael Brady specializes in the use of technology to aid data exploration and analysis. She promotes the use of visualization and virtual reality technologies for improved understanding of scientific data and human cognition. With nearly twenty-years of experience, she is a leader in the creation of facilities and development of solutions that combine statistical methods, digital image processing methods and visualization methods to provide insight into scientific questions. Brady is the founding director of the Visualization Technology Group at Duke University (vis.duke.edu), where she is responsible for the installation and operation of a 6-sided CAVE-like virtual reality theater. She is also actively involved with developing innovative cross-disciplinary research programs through her role as faculty advisor to the ISIS (interdisciplinary studies + information sciences) program (isis.duke.edu) and research director in the Visual Studies Initiative (visualstudies.duke.edu). In this capacity she has worked on art and engineering collaborations that have produced the FreeSpace, soundSense, Mix Tapestry, demonstration/performances, and the soundSpace exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science.
Linda B. Hayden is the Director of the Elizabeth City State University Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER). She is a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science, author of numerous articles and funded proposals, and is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. In addition to her regular teaching duties, Hayden serves as co-director for the NSF CI-TEAM (Cyberinfrastructure-Training, Education, Advancement and Mentoring) Project and as co-principal investigator for the PolarGrid Project. Her research interests include remote sensing and grid networks. You can learn more about Dr. Hayden by visiting her website at http://nia.ecsu.edu/nrts/lhayden/haydenresume.html.
