We have confirmed the following distinguished individuals as Plenary Speakers for HICSS-32:

Wednesday - EDWARD H. SHORTLIFFE
Thursday - IKUJIRO NONAKA
Friday - BRUCE SHRIVER

Edward H. Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and of Computer Science
Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology
Director, Medical Information Sciences Training Program
Medical School Office Bldg, X-201
Stanford University School of Medicine
251 Campus Drive
Stanford, California  94305-5479

Biographical Information:
Edward H. Shortliffe received an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College in 1970, a Stanford Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences in 1975, and an M.D. at Stanford in 1976.  During the early 1970s, Dr. Shortliffe was principal developer of the medical expert system known as MYCIN.  After a pause for internal medicine house-staff training at Harvard and Stanford between 1976 and 1979, he joined the Stanford internal medicine faculty where he has since directed an active research program in clinical information systems development.  His interests include the broad range of issues related to integrated decision-support systems and their effective implementation.  He has spearheaded the formation of a Stanford degree program in medical informatics and continues to divide his time between clinical medicine and medical-informatics research.

A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association, Dr. Shortliffe also has been elected to fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the American College of Physicians.  He is a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians and sits on the editorial boards of several medical computing and artificial intelligence publications.  He has served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (National Research Council), the Federal Networking Advisory Committee (National Science Foundation),
the Biomedical Library Review Committee (National Library of Medicine), and received a research career development award from the latter agency.

In addition, he received the Grace Murray Hopper Award of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1976 and has been a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in General Internal Medicine.  He has authored over 150 articles and books in the fields of medical computing and artificial intelligence.  Volumes include Computer-Based Medical Consultations: MYCIN (Elsevier/North Holland, 1976), Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence: the First Decade (with W.J. Clancey; Addison-Wesley, 1984), Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project (with B. G. Buchanan; Addison-Wesley, 1984), and Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care (with L.E. Perreault, G. Wiederhold, and L.M. Fagan; Addison-Wesley, 1990).

Contact: Edward H. Shortliffe
Tel:  650/725-3385; Fax: 650/498-4162       Email: Ted.Shortliffe@stanford.edu
Web: http://www.smi.stanford.edu/people/ehs/
 Alternate: http://www.smi.stanford.edu/affiliates/pages/shortliffe.html
Assistant: Barbara Morgan   Email:  bmorgan@smi.stanford.edu

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Ikujiro Nonaka, Ph.D.
Dean, Graduate School of Knowledge Science
Japan Institute of Science and Technology, Hokuriku
1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi
Ishikawa 923-1292  JAPAN
Also:
Xerox Distinguished Professor of Knowledge
University of California, Berkeley

Biographical Information:
Ikujiro Nonaka is the first Xerox Distinguished Professor of Knowledge at the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business, an endowed visiting professorship dedicated to research about knowledge created in businesses. He is also founding dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; former director of the Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.  Dr. Nonaka received his MBA and Ph.D. from Berkeley, and has long been considered one of Japan's foremost authorities on developing and using the intellectual capacity of workers to create and expand business knowledge.

With Hirotaka Takeuchi, Dr. Nonaka wrote The Knowledge-Creating Company:  How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (Oxford:  1995), which was awarded the Best Book of the Year in Business and Management by the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division.

Contact: Ikujiro Nonaka
Tel:  +81-761-51-1700        Fax:  +81-761-51-1149
email:  nonaka@jaist.ac.jp

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Bruce Shriver, Ph.D.
Genesis 2, Inc and
The University of Tromso, Norway

Abstract:
"Authoring a Multimedia Technical Book: Design and Implementation
Considerations"    A new set of book publishing and distribution technologies has recently
emerged. Among them are electronic books, paperless publishing systems, the Web (both the Internet and intranets, CD-ROMs, and DVDs).   This talk uses a newly released book, "The Anatomy of a High-Performance Microprocessor: A Systems Perspective," by Shriver and Smith, as a case study, and discusses various issues that arise in authoring multimedia books, particularly those intended for small, technical audiences. After a brief demonstration of the electronic version of the book, the talk will focus on content development (e.g., the hypertext version of the book itself, video clips, audio clips, technical articles from professional society periodicals and conferences, material from vendors and the trade press, technical presentations, and simulators), mutli-purposing source material, authoring tools, indexing and searching documents, time commitments, protection mechanisms, and copyright issues.  A set of recommendations will be presented to those who are embarking on similar projects.

Biographical Information:
Bruce Shriver received his PhD in Computer Science from SUNY/Buffalo. He has published and lectured extensively on the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems.  Dr. Shriver was made an IEEE Fellow in 1990 for his work in Computer Systems Organization and Microprogramming. He was president of the IEEE Computer Society in 1992, and has been editor-in-chief of IEEE Computer and of IEEE Software.  He also has served as the program or general chair of over 40 international conferences.

Shriver was a Research Staff Member and a Department Group Manager at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in the mid-1980s. He was Vice-President for Research at the University of Southwestern Louisiana where he also held an Eminent Scholar Chair in Computer Science.
Bruce Shriver has served on the Board of Directors of the CRA (Computing Research
Association), FOCUS (Federation on Computing in the United States) and on the Science Advisory Committee of a number of departments and univesities. He is currently an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of Tromso in Norway and a consultant in high-performance computer systems (hardware and software), as well as intellectual property and related areas.

Contact: Bruce Shriver
Tel:  914/762-3251
Fax: 914/941-9181
Email: shriver@genesis2.com