Vinton Gray Cerf is an American internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the internet," sharing this title with TCP/IP co-inventor Bob Kahn. His contributions have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal...
Victoria Reich is executive director of the LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Library. The LOCKSS Program empowers local and national communities to ensure perpetual access to a wide range of materials, including for-fee and open access books and journals. In a 2014 audit, the LOCKSS technology...
Susan Hildreth is the inaugural, Gates-funded distinguished practitioner in residence (professor of practice) at the University of Washington Information School in Seattle. She recently stepped down as the executive director, Peninsula Library System, Pacific Library Partnership and the Califa Group. She also serves as an...
Peter Jaszi is an emeritus professor at American University Washington College of Law who writes and lectures about copyright law in historical and cultural contexts. At American, he was a founder of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and the Program on Intellectual Property and...
Paula MacKinnon is interim director of Califa Group (califa.org), a nonprofit library consortium of more than 220 libraries, the largest library network in California. Founded in 2004, Califa manages statewide and national grant projects that benefit the library community; brokers library product and service agreements;...
Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman distinguished professor of law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley. She is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw, and information policy. Since 1996, she has held a joint appointment at Berkeley...
Nirmita Narasimhan is a policy director with the Centre for Internet and Society, working in the areas of policy research and advocacy related to technology access for persons with disabilities. She was involved in drafting the Indian National Universal Electronic Accessibility Policy and also worked...
Mike Furlough is executive director of HathiTrust, an organization dedicated to collecting and preserving the scholarly and cultural record. Furlough oversees the full suite of its programs and services, which include a trusted digital library holding more than 15 million digitized books, providing collections access...
Michelle M. Wu is the associate dean for library services and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. She has served in this role since 2010, mapping a strategic course for the management and use of legal information, as well as teaching in the...
Dr. Martha Kanter leads the College Promise Campaign’s national initiative to increase college access, affordability and completion in American higher education. She is also a senior fellow at New York University’s Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy. She specializes in policy efforts to identify innovative...