MII Home Page

Registration

Workshops

Invited Speakers

Breakout sessions

Lincoln Map - Parking

Housing

Who to Contact

Institute Archives

Student Web Contest

Invited Speakers - 1998

Bob Hughes, ETX
John Gage, Sun Microsystems
Cheryl Lemke, Milken Exchange
Trevor Owen, York University, Toronto/Ontario
Robert Denicola, University of Nebraska Law College
Tom Burnett, Ph. D., Apple Computer Inc.

Bob Hughes,
Educational Technology Exchange (ETX)

Bob Hughes has traveled extensively during the last ten years lecturing on the importance of change in our schools. His background includes both business and education in that he has been a member of the Lake Washington School District Board of Directors, Kirkland and Redmond, Washington (24,000 students) for the past nineteen years, serving as its President in several recent years and currently serving as Vice President.

Along with school related activities, Mr. Hughes is also a retired executive from The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington (31 years), where he served as Corporate Director of Education Relations, General Manager of Programming Services and General Manager of Professional Software Products. Because of his strong background in both technology and schools, Mr. Hughes has become an invited speaker at more than 400 workshops and conferences nationwide, organizing nine major conferences and lobbying legislators for both educational and technology reform.

John Gage
Director, Science Office
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation

John Gage is responsible for Sun Microsystems' relationships with the world scientific and public policy communities, international scientific institutions and groups developing new forms of scientific research involving computing.

He is on scientific and advisory panels of the United States National Science Foundation, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the European Institute of Technology and the United States National Academy of Sciences. He has recently been appointed to the US National Research Council Mathematical Sciences Education Board. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, SIAM, AMS, AAAS, and SMPTE.

He attended the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Public Policy. He did doctoral work in economics and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley at the same time as Bill Joy. Gage subsequently left Berkeley with Joy to start Sun in 1982.

Gage is on the Board of Directors of Unicode, an industry consortium of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Novell, and others to provide multilingual capability in all world scripts for all documents and applications.

Cheryl Lemke
Milken Exchange

Cheryl L. Lemke is Executive Director of the Milken Exchange on Education Technology and Vice President, Education Technology, for the Milken Family Foundation.

Ms. Lemke is a nationally recognized expert in education technology who is establishing the Milken Exchange as the nerve center of an emerging national network of educators, public officials and business leaders advancing technology in America's classroom. To accelerate a compelling national agenda, Ms. Lemke is deploying strategies she successfully used at the state level to convince policy makers and business leaders to make wise community investments in technologies which improve student learning.

A professional educator with more than 20 years experience at the classroom, district and state superintendent levels, Ms. Lemke led technology efforts in both Illinois and Washington State. She pioneered access to the Internet for students in Washington State, and in Illinois built a statewide K-12 telecommunications network and engaged students and teachers in online learning initiatives like the Museum in the Classroom project. Her state technology plan for Illinois' schools has resulted in 1997-98 state legislative appropriations of over $73 million for technology in schools. She continues to work with the Illinois State Board of Education on special projects.

Trevor Owen
York University, Toronto/Ontario, Canada

TREVOR OWEN was born in Toronto. He is a graduate of the B.F.A. and B.Ed. programs at York University, and the M.A. (Education) program at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. Trevor has worked in a variety of positions with the Toronto Board of Education, and more recently with the faculties of education at SFU and York University.

Trevor is involved in a number of educational telecommunications projects in addition to the Writers In Electronic Residence program, including

• Current Practice (online learning network of York's Faculty of Education)
• Canada's SchoolNet
• Composers In Electronic Residence

He is currently the editor of the Journal of Online Learning (formerly Telecommunications In Education News)a quarterly journal of the International Society for Technology in Education, and serves as a member of the Instructional Technology Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), chairing the Teacher Education group.

Robert Denicola
University of Nebraska College of Law

Professor Denicola joined the Law College faculty in 1976. He received a B.S.E. degree, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 197l and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1974. He also received an LL.M. degree from Harvard in 1976. Professor Denicola worked with a Boston law firm before coming to Nebraska. He has also been a visiting professor at Cornell and was Acting Dean of the Law College from 1994-96. Professor Denicola teaches courses in Contracts, Copyright, and Unfair Competition. He has written a casebook on copyright law published by Foundation Press and was the Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law of Unfair Competition.

Tom Burnett, Ph. D.
Apple Computer, Inc.

Tom Burnett not only has a long history with Apple Computer, but also with K-12 Education in Nebraska. Before working at Apple, he served as Assistant to the Superinendant in charge of computer technology at Lincoln Public Schools for many years. Dr. Burnett has worked as a teacher, researcher, consultant, software developer and administrator in K-12 education, higher education and business. Currently, he is Manager, Distributed Learning Environments at Apple Computer.