Michael L. Brodie |
Chief Scientist, Verizon Information Technology. He works on large-scale strategic Information Technology (IT) challenges for Verizon Corporation's senior executives. His primary interest is in the use of IT, with an emphasis on emerging technologies, to enable organizational and business objectives, including organizational change. Since 1998 he has investigated e-commerce and the relationships between economics, business, and technology. His long-term industrial and research focus is on large-scale information systems - their total life cycle, business and technical contexts, core technologies, and "integration" within in a large scale, operational telecommunications environment.
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Keith Jeffery |
Professor, currently Director, Information Technology and Head of Business and Information Technology Department. He is based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of CLRC, but the Department has staff both at RAL and DL (Daresbury Laboratory). He was previously Head of Information Technology Department and before that Head of Information Systems Engineering Division, which - together with Systems and Services Division and the Advanced Interactive Systems Group - formed the Information Technology Department
Keith has wide interest in Advanced Information Systems but his major current research interests include heterogeneous distributed database systems, digital libraries, knowledge repositories and metadata.
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Johan De Kleer |
Johan de Kleer received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979.
Widely published in the areas of qualitative physics,
model-based reasoning, truth maintenance systems, and
knowledge representation, Dr. de Kleer has co-authored three
books: Readings in Qualitative Physics, Readings in
Model-Based Diagnosis, and Building Problem Solvers. In 1987,
he received the prestigious Computers and Thought Award at
the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. Johan de Kleer is Manager of the Systems and
Practices Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The
laboratory is interdisciplinary, conducting research ranging
from social science to robotics. Its research is based on the
perspective that people, technology and the world with which
they interact form a system that must be honored in order to
make fundamental breakthroughs. Dr. de Kleer champions work
to develop methodologies and technologies to support
knowledge creation, use and sharing in organizations.
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