Information and Service Design Lecture Series

Prior to joining Boalt, Chris Hoofnagle was senior counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where he ran the organization’s West Coast Office. In 2005, he was a non-residential fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society. Over the years, he has testified before Congress, the California Legislature, and before the Judicial Conference of the United States on various privacy issues. He has commentated in over 1'000 news stories in national print and broadcast media. His academic articles on the First Amendment and privacy are online at SSRN.

Daniel is an internationally recognized technology pioneer with a rich background in home entertainment, consumer electronics and Internet services. His track record includes the launch of the world’s-first MP3 Jukebox, the world’s-first Internet stereo system, and the first wireless home entertainment system incorporating Internet video services.

With over twenty five years of system software management, consulting and entrepreneur experience, Ly currently serves as chief executive officer and founder of Mobiscale. Prior to Mobiscale, she was CEO at Bluekey Services Inc. and Turbolinux Inc., SVP at Cray Inc., COO at Onscreen24, CTO at Vtel corp., and held other senior management roles at Apple Computer Inc. and Wang Laboratories, Inc. She was a venture advisor to IDG VN, a venture fund investing in Vietnam and a director of VSVN. She is a co-inventor of ten granted patents. Ly received a B.A. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Information Systems from Boston University, a Presidential/Key Executive M.B.A. from Pepperdine University, and is currently enrolled in the Human and Organization Systems Ph.D program with Fielding Graduate University.

Elizabeth F. Churchill studies Internet Experiences at Yahoo! Research.

Ahrash Bissell comes to CC from Duke University (Durham, NC) where he was a Research Associate in Biology and the Assistant Director of the Academic Resource Center. He received his BS in Biology in 1994 from UC San Diego, followed by a Ph.D. in Biology in 2001 from the University of Oregon, where he pursued research on animal behavior and evolutionary genetics. While he has continued an active research and teaching program in biology, the bulk of his time in recent years was focused on educational research and technology, pedagogical and curriculum development, assessment (with a focus on critical-thinking skills and metacognition), and facilitating interdisciplinary research, especially via open dissemination, data sharing, and Web-based communities of expertise. He is also a board member (and current International director) for InnoWorks and a research consultant for the Alexandria Archive Institute.

Robert Cook co-founded Metaweb Technologies in July 2005. At parent company Applied Minds, Robert led the San Francisco office as Director of Knowledge Product Development, specializing in large-scale computation and data visualization. Since the start of his career, Robert has played the role of an author, designer and programmer for myriad software applications. At the young age of 15, Robert created database software for a small publishing company, and at 18 published his first computer game through Broderbund Software. Robert holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Yale University.

Virgil Griffith is a first year graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. On weekdays he studies evolution, computational neuroscience, and artificial life. On weekends, he makes the Internet a better and more interesting place. Virgil gained notoriety as a freshman in college when the fallout from his first paper caused him to get sued under the Sedition and Espionage Act. Recovering from litigation-related injuries, the following year he dropped out of college to become faculty at the Indiana University School of Informatics. After a stint as faculty, he resumed his undergraduate career at Indiana graduating two years later. Now under the auspice of expensive Caltech lawyers, Virgil has renewed his security research part-time with particular interest in data-mining for the people. In science, his passion is the creation of artificial intelligence and the scientific study of consciousness.

Jim Gemmell is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Next Media research group. His current research focus is on personal lifetime storage, as architect of the MyLifeBits project and chair of the First and Second ACM Workshops on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experience (CARPE). Dr. Gemmell received his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University and his M. Math from the University of Waterloo. His research interests include personal media management, telepresence, and reliable multicast. He produced the on-line version of the ACM 97 conference and is a co-author of the PGM reliable multicast RFC. Dr. Gemmell serves on the editorial boards of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal and Computer Communications. He also served on the editorial advisory board of ACM netWorker.

Jay Trimble leads the User Centered Technology (UCT) Group at NASA Ames Research Center. UCT develops technologies for NASA mission operations systems, using user centered design methods to develop technologies that meet mission and user needs. UCT currently has four projects: the Mission Control Technologies Project, which seeks to enable software to be built from composable components, the XBoard Collaborative Workspace Project, Planetary Data System user centered design project and a collaborative project with Google to index planetary mission data. Prior to leading the UCT Group at NASA Ames, Jay proposed and led the Mars Exploration Rover Human Centered Computing Project, building a multi-disciplinary team to work with the Jet Propulsion Lab to bring process and technology improvements to Mars Rover Operations. At U.C. Berkeley, Jay was the Integration and Test Manager for the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager Spacecraft, a successful mission to gather data on solar flares. From 1996-98, Jay ran a multimedia consultancy, which developed web sites and CD-ROM's for NASA and industry clients. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jay was the Lead Mission Operations Director for Shuttle Imaging Radar, responsible for design and development of the ground operations software and mission procedures, and managing an international team to operate the Earth remote sensing radar on two successful missions on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. Prior to that, he was a science support team member for the Voyager Spacecraft encounter with Neptune in 1989. At NASA Johnson Space Center he was a flight controller for Space Shuttle Missions, in the Payloads postion, responsible for operational integration of payloads on the Shuttle. Education: M.S. Computer Science from the University of Southern California, B.A. in Geology from the University of California, Berkeleye