Distinguished Lecture:
Universities in the Digital Age Revisited ---- - - ---------- [abstract]

The HICSS Distinguished Lecture Series always features truly outstanding leaders in computer science, information systems, and/or other related fields. This year is no exception.  We are honored to have Daniel E. Atkins as our HICSS-42 Distinguished Lecturer, speaking at 12:45pm on Wednesday, January 7, in the Monarchy Ballroom, immediately following lunch and prior to the afternoon paper sessions.

Dan Atkins is the W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Informatics, and Professor of Information and EECS at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  For the past two years (until June 2008) he has served as the inaugural Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)  at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Created in 2005, OCI makes competitive, merit-reviewed awards for leading-edge, IT-based infrastructure increasingly essential to science and engineering leadership in the 21st century.

Dr. Atkins has made major contributions to high-performance computer architecture, and led or participated in the design and construction of seven experimental machines including some of the earliest parallel computers.  He developed high-speed arithmetic algorithms now widely used in the computer industry, conducted pioneering work on special-purpose architecture including collaboration with the Mayo Clinic on development of computer-assisted tomography (CAT), and chaired the committee at Michigan that developed one of the earliest computer engineering undergraduate degree programs. More recently his research has focused on the social and technical architecture of distributed knowledge communities including digital libraries, collaboratories, and the open educational resources movement.

Additional bio information is available at http://web.mac.com/deatkins/CI_Topics/About_Me.html