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Appendix II: Public Information-Gathering Sessions

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Appendix II: Public Information-Gathering Sessions

The ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences convened seven public information-gathering sessions to hear from those interested in contributing to the work of the Commission. Below is a record of those who testified at these public sessions, held throughout the country on the following dates. Transcripts of these testimonies are available on the ACLS Web site at: http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_public_sessions.htm

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004 – Washington, DC

  • Michael Jensen, National Academies Press
  • Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • Max Evans, National Historical Publications and Records Commission

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004 – Chicago

  • William Barnett, Field Museum
  • James Grossman, Newberry Library
  • Myron P. Gutmann, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • James Hilton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Lorna Hughes, New York University
  • Martin Mueller, Northwestern University
  • Bill Regier, University of Illinois Press

Saturday, June 19th, 2004 – New York

  • Stephen Brier, New Media Lab, CUNY Graduate Center
  • Diana Taylor, New York University
  • Kevin Guthrie, Ithaka Harbors
  • Kate Wittenberg, Columbia University
  • Robert Darnton, Princeton University
  • Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University

Saturday, August 21st, 2004 – Berkeley

  • Suzanne Calpestri, University of California, Berkeley
  • Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley
  • Michael Buckland, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
  • Richard Rinehart, University of California, Berkeley
  • Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University
  • Gregory Niemeyer, University of California, Berkeley
  • John Ober, University of California, Berkeley
  • Marc Levoy, Stanford University

Saturday, September 18th, 2004 – Los Angeles

  • Janice Reiff, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Kenneth Hamma, J. Paul Getty Trust
  • Jerry D. Campbell, University of Southern California
  • Douglas Greenberg, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
  • David Theo Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute
  • Zoe Borofsky, University of California, Los Angeles

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 – Baltimore

  • James J. O’Donnell, Georgetown University
  • David Greenbaum, The Interactive University Project, University of California, Berkeley
  • Fred Heath, University of Texas, Austin
  • Patricia Kosco Cossard, Medieval Academy of America, University of Maryland
  • Bernard Frischer, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia

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