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 James WrightJames Wright is the 16th president of Dartmouth College. A noted historian, he has held numerous leadership posts at the College including dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, provost, and acting president. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from Wisconsin State University (now the University of Wisconsin-Platteville), and later master's and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Immediately after receiving his doctorate in 1969, Wright joined Dartmouth's Department of History as an assistant professor, rising to associate professor in 1974 and professor of History in 1980. An active researcher, he has been the recipient of a Social Science Research Council Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Charles Warren Fellowship at Harvard. He is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the Western History Association, and the New Hampshire chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and serves on the board of trustees of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation. President Wright is married to Susan DeBevoise Wright. He has two sons, a daughter, and five grandchildren. |
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 Reed HundtReed E. Hundt is a senior advisor on information industries to McKinsey & Company, a worldwide management consulting firm, and a principal of Charles Ross Partners, LLC, a Washington, DC-based firm that provides consulting and investment advice on telecommunications. As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1993 to 1997, Mr. Hundt presided over the implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and helped negotiate the World Trade Organization Telecommunications Agreement, opening markets in 69 countries to competition and dropping barriers to foreign investment. Under his administration, the FCC raised more than $12 billion for the U.S. Treasury through competition-creating spectrum auctions. Hundt is author of "You Say You Want a Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics" (Yale University Press, 2000). He lives in Chevy Chase, MD, with his wife and their three children. |
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Mac AganMac Agan is a wireless marketing director for the Intel Wireless Networking Networking Group (WNG). He holds a bachelor's from the University of Puget Sound. Agan leads numerous market development initiatives for WNG focused on accelerating the adoption of wireless LAN and technologies, particularly in the enterprise and digital home segments. Mac is a seven-year veteran of Intel and brings nearly 20 years of computing and communications industries experience to this assignment. |
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Don BerryDon Berry supports the wireless infrastructure in Microsoft's Operations and Technology Group. The Seattle native joined the U.S. Air Force in 1975 and worked on radar jamming equipment. Berry started with Digital Equipment Corporation in 1979. He joined Microsoft in 1995 as a senior network engineer. In 2000 he designed and implemented the wireless network at Microsoft - one of the largest deployments of WLAN, with more than 4,200 access points and over 30,000 wireless users. |
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 Edmond S. CooleyEdmond S. Cooley is an assistant professor of Engineering and director of Information Technology at Dartmouth's Thayer School. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont, and master's and doctoral degrees from Thayer School. Cooley has worked in VLSI circuit design for Raytheon Company and Aerodyne Research, and has consulted with a number of companies in hardware and software development, design, and implementation. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles and abstracts on systems design, hardware description languages, artificial intelligence, circuit tests, communications, and networking. Cooley teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in systems, systems design, hardware description languages, and communication theory. He is a member of IEEE, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers. |
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 Lewis M. DuncanLewis M. Duncan is a professor of Engineering and dean of Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. He received his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics and his master's and doctorate in space physics from Rice University. As a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, Duncan conducted research at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Puerto Rico. He then joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research scientist and became a section head in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences. He was a Carnegie Science Fellow at Stanford before joining the faculty of Clemson University, where he became associate dean for the College of the Sciences. He was founding director of the South Carolina Space Grant Consortium, and is a fellow in the Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs. At the University of Tulsa from 1992 to 1998, Duncan served as dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, provost, acting president of the university, and a fellow in the National Energy-Environmental Law and Policy Institute. His current research interests include experimental space plasma physics, radiophysics, and technology and public policy. |
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Matt DunneMatt Dunne is a Vermont state senator representing Windsor County. He is also a consultant to Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center on the Public Impact Initiative. Dunne received his bachelor's in public policy from Brown University. Before being elected senator in 2002, Dunne served for two-and-a-half years as the national director of AmeriCorps*VISTA, one of the federal government's primary community service programs. Before then, he served four terms as a state representative, working with constituents and colleagues to find creative and common sense solutions to Vermonters' problems. First elected to the Vermont General Assembly at the age of 22, Dunne served in a variety of leadership roles. From 1997 to January 2000, he was marketing director for Logic Associates, a top-500 software company now based in Lebanon, NH, that serves the commercial printing industry worldwide. A lifelong resident of Hartland, VT, Dunne and wife Sarah live on the farm where he grew up. |
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 Ira FuchsIra Fuchs is vice president for Research in Information Technology at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He received his master's in computer science and bachelor's in physics at Columbia University. At Mellon, Fuchs directs the Foundation's expanding investigations of digital technologies that can be applied to teaching and research. He is also senior technology advisor to the president of Princeton University and serves as the chief scientist of JSTOR, a rapidly growing digital archive of more than 100 out-of-print core scholarly journals. As the vice president for Computing and Information Technology at Princeton University from 1985 to 2000, Fuchs was responsible for the overall management of the University's academic and administrative computing services, electronic communications, media, intranet, and printing services. In 1981 he founded the BITNET Network, the world's first and largest academic telecommunications network, and now serves as president of its successor, the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). |
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 Adam GolodnerAdam Golodner is the associate director for policy at Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), a national center for cybersecurity and homeland security research, development, and analysis. He graduated from Colorado College and the University of Colorado School of Law, and was a partner in a Denver law firm before joining the government in 1993. Golodner served first as the deputy administrator of the Rural Utilities Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, where he focused on rural telecoms and economic development issues. In 1997, he became chief of staff of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, where he worked on mergers, enforcement, and competition policy. Golodner focused on telecoms, media, intellectual property, international, and agriculture issues. Prior to joining ISTS he was vice president of Wallman Strategic Consulting in Washington, DC, a telecoms and economic policy consultancy. |
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Paul GoranssonPaul Goransson is president of Meetinghouse, which he founded in 1988 as a contract software engineering company specializing in large embedded protocol and internetworking projects for leading IT and communications companies. After receiving his doctorate in computer science from the University of New Hampshire, he held various management positions at GTE Telenet, where he was responsible for significant projects in Latin America. In 1996, he co-founded Qosnetics and served as its president until Hewlett-Packard acquired it in 1999. He held a senior management role within HP and its subsidiary, Agilent Technologies, before returning to Meetinghouse in September 2001. |
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 Joel L. HartmanJoel L. Hartman is vice provost for Information Technologies and Resources at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. As the university's CIO, he has overall responsibility for library, computing, networking, telecommunications, media services, and distributed learning activities. Hartman worked in information technology management at Bradley University from 1967 to 1995. An active participant and presenter at industry conferences, Hartman is chair of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors and also serves on the NLII Planning Committee. Hartman has been an information technology consultant to public and private sector organizations including state governments of Illinois and Florida, where he helped develop educational telecommunications policy and resources. He has served on numerous state, regional, and national IT committees in areas including public broadcasting, distributed learning, and networking. Hartman graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with bachelor's and master's degrees in Journalism and Communications and received his doctorate from the University of Central Florida. |
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 Chris HerwigChris Herwig is director of technology for NCR Corporation's Retail Solutions Division. He holds a degree in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College and a bachelor's of engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Herwig is responsible for identifying significant technology trends in the retail industry, prototyping promising technologies, and developing product strategies to embrace them. As a member of the engineering staff, Herwig helped bring the industry's first PC-based transaction terminal to the market. Over the past several years, his technical leadership roles have included director of engineering and director of advanced development for Store Automation Hardware Platforms. He is also NCR's representative to the Technology Board of the Auto-ID Center at MIT. A native of Columbus, OH, he now lives in Atlanta with his wife and daughter. |
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Alex HillsAlex Hills is Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a master's in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, and a doctorate in engineering and public policy from CMU. He teaches wireless communications and researches its application in residential, business and educational settings. As CMU's vice provost and chief information officer, Hills led the development and operation of the university's computing and telecommunications systems. In 1993 he conceived and founded Carnegie Mellon's Wireless Andrew project - a campus-wide, high-speed, wireless network that is available to all students, faculty, and staff - and led the project until 1999. It was the first network of its kind in the world and served as a model for many other universities and businesses. Because of his efforts, Yahoo selected Carnegie Mellon as the nation's "most wired university," reflecting the very high quality of its computing and networking facilities. Since completing his tenure as CIO, Hills has been a leader in stimulating and promoting the use of technology in learning, focusing on the use of the best teaching methods in each course. He lives with his wife Meg, who is a nurse practitioner. The couple has two daughters, Rebecca, 27, and Karen, 25. |
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 G. Christian JernstedtG. Christian Jernstedt is professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and adjunct professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He received his doctorate in experimental psychology from the Johns Hopkins University and specializes in human learning, educational technology, and evaluation research. Jernstedt is director of Dartmouth's Center for Educational Outcomes, which has pioneered the effective use of electronically supported teaching and learning. The Center is currently focusing on providing students wireless access to competence-building activities. The Center has developed powerful technological tools for the design, implementation, and evaluation of education over networks and seeks to develop a system of continuing assessment and quality improvement for schools, universities, business organizations, and government agencies. |
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 Scott KirsnerScott Kirsner is a Boston-based business and technology writer focusing on new technologies, the people and companies that create them, and their impact. A contributing editor at Fast Company and a contributing writer at Wired Magazine, he also writes "@large," a column on the tech sector in New England that appears each Monday on the front page of the Boston Globe's business section. Kirsner has also written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Boston Magazine, CIO Magazine, Salon, the London Sunday Telegraph, and the Columbia Journalism Review, and has made frequent appearances on TV and radio to discuss technology issues. He is one of the founders and program chair of Future Forward: The New England Technology Summit, which will be held this November in Portsmouth, NH, and the Nantucket Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which is held each May. |
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 David KotzDavid Kotz is a professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth. He graduated from the College in 1986, and returned to join the faculty in 1991 after receiving his master's and doctorate from Duke University. Tenured in 1997 and promoted to professor in 2003, Kotz draws on research interests such as context-aware mobile computing, pervasive computing, wireless networks, and intrusion detection to create leading-edge courses for undergraduates. In addition, he coordinates the Dartmouth Center for Mobile Computing (CMC), serves as an area editor of Mobile Computing Communications and Review, and is a program committee member for the First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots. An avid hiker, Kotz lives in Lyme, NH, with his wife and their three children. |
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 Larry LevineLarry Levine is director of Computing Services at Dartmouth. Focusing on research methodology and statistics, he earned his doctorate from Indiana University, Bloomington, and received his undergraduate degree from SUNY Stony Brook. In 1984, after serving as a programmer, research consultant, and manager at IU's Computing Services, Levine became director of Social Science Computing at Dartmouth. He later directed Academic Computing and in 1991 took his current position as overseer of an enterprise-wide IT environment that includes academic, administrative, and network IT functions. His focus as director has been on the use of computing in teaching and research, the overall digital infrastructure, and administrative information systems. He has emphasized a leading IT environment aligned with supporting and enabling the College's priorities. Active in a number of higher education IT professional organizations, Levine is also chair of the board of ValleyNet, a major nonprofit community ISP in the Hanover region. Levine lives with his wife, two children, and three dogs in Hanover, New Hampshire. |
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 Scott MacklinScott Macklin directs the University of Washington's Program for the Educational Transformation through Technology. PETTT seeks to enhance the effectiveness of the educators at University of Washington, and thus of the institution itself, by creating a campus framework to promote the thoughtful exploration, development, assessment, and dissemination of next-generation technologies and strategies for teaching and learning. In 2000, he co-authored an article, "The Catalyst Project: Supporting Faculty Uses of the Web... with the Web," which won the EDUCAUSE contribution of the year award. Formerly the associate director of UWired, Macklin serves as vice president of education on the executive board of the Society of Information Managers. He also serves on the EDUCAUSE Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning Award committee and is a member of the Society of the Learning Sciences. |
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Mike McAndrewsMike McAndrews is director of business operations for the Wireless Networking Business Unit (WNBU) at Cisco Systems. He received a bachelors in electrical engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. WNBU is responsible for Cisco's Aironet Series of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) solutions, utilizing 802.11 technology. McAndrews and his colleagues develop WLAN solutions that meet the critical management, security, and performance needs of business customers. He is also responsible for driving new WLAN applications such as voice and PDAs. |
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 Brad NobletBrad Noblet is director of Computing Technical Services at Dartmouth College. He is responsible for campus data, telephone and cable TV networks, the central computer facility in Berry Library, and the software development group. After graduating in 1982 from Indiana University at Bloomington with a degree in computer science, Noblet managed that institution's data communications and statewide data network. He later became director of engineering and general manager at Ungerman-Bass, overseeing development of the world's first smart hub, a device that allows computers to share a single network connection. Noblet then served as vice president of product development, then president, at Cayman Systems, where he led efforts to move that firm away from its dependence on Apple products. In 1995, he joined Wellfleet, a predecessor of Bay Networks, to manage its router products division - delivering 40 percent of Bay's profit and $600 million in annual revenue. Since 1998, he has been involved in a number of start-up ventures. |
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Robert PepperRobert Pepper is chief of policy development at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate. Pepper is a direct advisor to the chairman of the FCC on long-term policy planning. This includes formulating and evaluating long-range policy options, especially those that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries as a result of new technological developments. He also has primary responsibility for developing the Commission's overall relationship with the financial community. Before his appointment to his current position in March 2003, Pepper was chief of the FCC's Office of Plans and Policy. At OPP, Pepper led teams developing policies for digital convergence; implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the development of the Internet and electronic commerce; designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the Internet on traditional communications industry and policy structures. |
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Peter PitschPeter Pitsch is director of Communications Policy for Intel Corporation. He received a bachelor's in economics from the University of Chicago in 1973 and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. Pitsch is responsible for the coordination of Intel policy surrounding communications and electronic commerce. Prior to joining Intel, he was the president of Pitsch Communications from 1989 to 1998. He and his firm represented telecommunication's clients before the FCC and Congress, provided business and regulatory planning, and published and lectured on U.S. regulatory policy. Pitsch was chief of staff to the chairman of the FCC from 1987 to 1989. He advised the chairman on all issues before the FCC including access reforms, price caps, major tariffs, and broadcasting. |
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Naval RavikantNaval Ravikant is a veteran of multiple start-ups and brings experience in broadband telecommunications, wireless, software, optical networking, and Internet-related businesses. He joined August Capital in 2001. Formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence at August Capital, he conceived of and co-founded Epinions.com. Naval was also a co-founder of Genoa corporation, a Fremont-based manufacturer of semiconductor optical components. Before Genoa, Ravikant worked in the strategic planning group at @Home Network. He has also served as a consultant in the high-tech practice area of the Boston Consulting Group and as an advisor and consultant to numerous companies, including IPivot Inc., which was subsequently sold to Intel, and Tripath Technologies, now a public company. |
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 Daniela RusDaniela Rus is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth. She earned her doctorate in computer science from Cornell University. A 2002 MacArthur Fellow, Rus's research interests include distributed robotics, self-reconfiguring robotics, mobile computing, and information organization. She founded and directs the Dartmouth Robotics Laboratory, and co-founded and co-directs the Transportable Agents Laboratory and the Dartmouth Center for Mobile Computing. She has received an NSF Career award and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. |
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 John SanGiovanniJohn SanGiovanni is Microsoft Research's Technical Evangelist. He manages Microsoft's worldwide academic research funding into mobile computing and wireless technologies. Previously, SanGiovanni was on the Advanced Technology Learning Team with PPI/Knowledge Universe, and worked in technology and entertainment at the Walt Disney Company. His current research focus is into interaction techniques and hardware interface technologies for next-generation mobile devices. In this area, SanGiovanni has several patents for alternative text input systems, including non-handwriting, non-speech, and non-typing. In recent years, he has explored how mobile devices and wireless technologies will transform communication, entertainment, and learning. |
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 Julie ShimerJulie Shimer is CEO of Vocera. She holds a bachelor's in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's and doctorate in electrical engineering from Lehigh University. Shimer has over 20 years of leadership experience. Most recently she was vice president and general manager of 3Com's Residential Connectivity Group, which was responsible for DSL and cable modems, home networking products, and Internet appliances. Prior to 3Com, Shimer was vice president and general manager in Motorola's Paging Division and vice president in its Semiconductor Products Sector. She has also worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bethlehem Steel Company. Actively involved in programs that encourage women to enter engineering fields, Shimer is a senior member of the IEEE and of the Society of Women Engineers. She is also a director of Welch Allyn. |
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 Sean SmithSean Smith is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth. He received his bachelor's in mathematics from Princeton University and his master's and doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a member of ACM, USENIX, the IEEE Computer Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi. Smith has focused for more than a decade on information security - attacks and defenses - for industry and government. Following graduate school, where he worked with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service on postal meter fraud, he was a post-doc and staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. There, he performed security reviews, designs, analyses, and briefings for a wide variety of public-sector clients. He then moved on to IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, where he designed and helped code and test the security architecture for the IBM 4758 secure coprocessor. Smith then led the formal modeling and verification work that earned it the world's first FIPS 140-1 Level 4 security validation. Convinced that the academic education and research environment is a better venue for changing the world, Smith came to Dartmouth in July 2000. His current work, as PI of the Dartmouth PKI Lab, investigates how to build trustable systems in the real world. |
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James H. SniderJames H. Snider is senior research fellow in New America Foundation's Spectrum Policy Program, where he analyzes and critiques the federal government's management of the airwaves. He came to New America after serving in the United States Senate as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in Communications and Public Policy. A graduate of Harvard College, he holds advanced degrees in political science from Northwestern University and in business administration from the Harvard Business School. Snider is the author of The Citizen's Guide to the Airwaves and has written many of the New America Foundation's issue briefs, working papers, FCC filings, and popular articles on spectrum policy. |
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Edward StritterEdward Stritter was awarded a bachelor's in mathematics from Dartmouth College, and a master's and doctorate in computer science from Stanford University. Stritter has extensive experience in hardware and software technologies. He has worked as a programmer for Bell Laboratories, as chief architect for Motorola's 68000 microprocessor, and as director of Product Development for Nestar, Inc. He also founded three companies: MIPS Computer, Inc., the developer of the first commercial RISC microprocessor; NeTpower, Inc., a producer of workstations and servers using MIPS and Intel processors; and Clarity Wireless, a producer of high data-rate fixed broadband wireless equipment. Most recently, Stritter was director of Business Development for Cisco Systems wireless access business unit. He has served as a board member for several startup technology companies and is a member of the Board of Overseers at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. |
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Ron TrellueRon Trellue is deputy director of the Infrastructure and Information Systems Engineering Center at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in computer science from New Mexico State University. A 27-year veteran at Sandia, Trellue is responsible for programs safeguarding critical infrastructure systems. He directs research efforts in ad hoc wireless network security, cryptography, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) security, and intelligent agent software, and leads Sandia's cyber security team for Department of Homeland Security interactions. Trellue is a member of Dartmouth's Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection Consortium (I3P), where he led the Wireless Security Cluster Group workshop. |
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 Colonel Donald WelchColonel Donald Welch is associate dean for Information and Educational Technology and an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy, West Point. He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park, his master's in computer science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and his bachelor's from West Point. Welch has served as a line officer and IT leader in infantry, special operations, and educational organizations. Responsible for all student and faculty computing at West Point, he develops and implements the IT strategic plan, aligning it with USMA's vision. Welch is currently leading USMA through a transformation to an information-rich mobile computing environment that supports all learning. His primary research area is information assurance. Welch lives at West Point with his wife and four energetic children. |
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Howard E. WoolleyHoward Woolley is vice president of federal relations and state public policy for Verizon Wireless. He holds a bachelor's in TV and radio from Syracuse University and a master's in management from Johns Hopkins University. Woolley develops and manages company strategy and initiatives in the Congress, Executive Branch, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and state governments. Previously, he served as vice president of Wireless and International Relations for Bell Atlantic Corporation and was a member of the State Department Communications and Information Policy Advisory Committee. Prior to joining Bell Atlantic, Woolley was vice president of Regulatory Affairs at the National Association of Broadcasters, where he directed association initiatives at the FCC. Woolley and his wife Gail live in Potomac, MD. |
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