Advisors: Berlekamp, Donoho, Waller, Epstein ...

Elwyn Berlekamp

Elwyn Berlekamp is a professor of Mathematics at the U.C. Berkeley, where he has held a variety of positions since 1964, including professor and associate chairman of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. He has done groundbreaking research in game theory, algorithms and statistical information theory. He holds twelve different patents for products including the Bit Serial Reed-Solomon Encoders used by NASA. He sits on the editorial board at Theoretical Computer Science and has written five books.

Berlekamp has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berlekamp was also president of Cyclotomics (which became Kodak Berkeley Research) in the mid-1980s and is currently a board member for several corporations including Cylink and Space Computers. He earned his Ph.D. from M.I.T., where he presently sits on the Mathematics Department's academic review board.

Lorne Buchman

Lorne M. Buchman, Ph.D. has dedicated his career to education and the arts and, more recently, to innovations in online learning. He served for ten years on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, as professor of dramatic literature and theory, chair of the Department of Dramatic Art, and associate dean of the College of Letters and Science. His list of publications and public lectures is extensive, as is the breadth of his expertise, from education to technology to Shakespeare films, a subject Buchman covers in his 1991 book, Still in Movement, published by Oxford University Press.

In 1993 Buchman took the post of President of the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), a leading independent art and design college in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, he has pursued his interest in education and the Internet, first serving as an equity research analyst in the technology and education sector at Thomas Weisel Partners, and then taking the post of President of the School of Education at KaplanCollege.com. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Bob Burnett

Bob Burnett has more than thirty years' experience managing leading-edge technology projects. He was founding Vice President of Engineering for Cisco Systems, whose engineers he led in building the routers that made the Internet commercially viable. Burnett headed the first implementation of a complete COBOL compiler, and then the first commercial multiprocessor for Burroughs in the 1960s. He later managed the development of the first digital tester for VSLI chips at Fairchild and led the implementation team for Rolm/IBM's large scale digital branch exchange -- yet another first. Burnett continues to work as an entrepreneur with for-profit and non-profit enterprises. He sits on the board of Xamplify. Burnett is a graduate of Stanford University.

David Donoho

David Donoho is a professor of Statistics at Stanford. Winner of a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship, Donoho has done pioneering work in statistical theory and has applied it to a broad range of practical applications. One of his primary interests is "robust statistics." He has devised strategies for detecting errors in a database containing many dissimilar types of data. His recent research has centered on the theoretical properties of wavelets and he has developed a suite of interactive computer modules for exploring their properties. He is a former Presidential Young Investigator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively. Donoho earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard.

Terry Winograd

Terry Winograd is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford. He develops conceptual models for human-computer interaction and user-centered workflow software. He is also principal investigator on the Stanford Digital Libraries Project. He has authored a number of books, among them "Understanding Computers and Cognition," and sits on the editorial boards of Human-Computer Interaction and Personal Technologies. Winograd co-founded Action Technologies, a leading provider of Web-based workflow and work management software. A regular consultant to Interval Research, he is also the founder and past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society. He graduated from Colorado College with a B.A. in Mathematics and received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from M.I.T.

Robert Epstein

Founder, Sybase

Alan Stein

Alan Stein is a venture partner for Western Presidio Capital. He has been a General Partner as Goldman Sachs and Executive Director and Senior Managing Director at Montgomery Securities. He has also served as the Secretary of Business Transportation and Housing Agency for the state of California, and as Associate Dean for Executive Education at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Haas School of Business. Stein is a graduate of Columbia College and received his MBA from Harvard.

Psychometric: Daniel S. Weiss, Steven Reise, Niels Waller, Alan Shonkoff,

Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen has been a cognitive scientist at Lotus Research since 1997. His focus is on how teams collaborate. He is currently working with IBM Research on software to support collaborative browsing and searching for information in large enterprises. He is also developing lightweight software to support planning, shared workplaces and workflow - an investigation based on Cohen's study of the professional co-authoring of documents. He is the author of several conference and journal articles in the cognition and human-computer interaction fields. Cohen received his Ph.D. from the Center for Applied Cognitive Science at The University of Toronto.

Alan Shonkoff

Alan Shonkoff is a board-certified neuropsychologist with expertise in personality organization, testing, and assessment. A member of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, he has a private practice and is also co-director of Neuropsychological Services at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Oakland. Shonkoff received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Ph.D. from the U.C. Berkeley. His doctoral thesis was on "Self, Ideal and Retrospective Images in the Organization of Personality." He currently teaches at U.C. Berkeley.

Niels Waller

Niels Waller is Xamplify's chief consultant on psychology. He is Professor and chair of Quantitative Psychology at Vanderbilt. His main interest is the development and application of quantitative models of individual differences. His primary areas of expertise are item response theory, taxometric methods, factor analysis, and computerized adaptive testing. Among numerous other awards, Dr. Waller received the 1998/1999 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Steven Reise

Steven Reise is currently chair in measurement in the Department of Psychology at the UCLA. His primary specialty areas are in measurement and data modeling with particular specializations in item response theory and multilevel models. Dr. Reise has been a consultant at RAND for over 3 years working primarily on grant proposal development and statistical analyses consultation. Dr. Reise is affiliated with the UCLA Intervention Research Center and the UCLA Psychology Health Area Center grant. He received his Ph. D. in psychometrics from the University of Minnesota in 1990.

Daniel S. Weiss

Daniel S. Weiss, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Psychology at the U.C.S.F. His major areas of study include personality assessment, psychotherapy assessment and measurement, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Weiss has been a Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on research grants from the National Institutes of Mental Health, Drug Abuse, and Alcohol and Alcoholism, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and NASA. He is also a regular commissioner for the Board of Psychology of the State of California. He has published extensively and has served as a reviewer for over 20 academic journals.

A recipient of the Laufer award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement, Weiss graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Johns Hopkins University, where he also earned a master's in Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Personality/Clinical Psychology from the U.C. Berkeley.

Legal: Tom French, David Rockower, Joe Siino

David Rockower

David B. Rockower has practiced High Technology and Intellectual Property law for over seven years, most recently at the Silicon Valley firm of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, where he gave strategic consulting to fledgling companies and Fortune 500 corporations. His clients included DaimlerChrysler, Matsushita, and Samsung. He guided a large number of Internet startups from founding to IPO, negotiating joint venture, licensing, distribution, and other agreements.

Rockower has lectured and written extensively on Internet and e-commerce law. He has been recognized in "An International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers" as one of twenty top United States attorneys in this area. He is founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Internet Law, and Co-Chair of the Computer Law Association Round-Table Committee. He holds a bachelor's degree in Physics, with a concentration in Computer Science, from U.C. Berkeley.

Tom French

Recognized as one of "Silicon Valley's Best Business Lawyers" in a San Jose Magazine poll of industry attorneys, Tom French is a partner at the Palo Alto law firm of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich. Specializing in high technology-based business formations and intellectual property law, French has served as counsel primarily to semiconductor, and emerging technology and banking interests, among them SEMATECH, LearnMart.com, OffNet.net, Semiconductor Industry Association, Silicon Valley Bank, and Interprise Ventures. He currently chairs the firm's Commercial Law and Financial Institutions group. French is also an Executive Advisory Board member for the School of Technology and Industry at Golden Gate University and sits on the board of several non-profit charitable organizations. He is a graduate of Butler University and received his J.D. cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law.

Joseph Siino

Joseph Siino is a partner at the firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and is widely recognized as a leading expert in intellectual property. He has helped high technology companies devise strategies to recognize and capitalize upon their proprietary assets through the use of computerized idea-gathering systems. An adjunct professor at the U.C. Berkeley, Siino teaches the first full-semester intellectual property strategy course of its kind in the nation. He frequently speaks to technology companies and consortia with interests in this area. He also specializes in venture financing and has provided representation for a number of emerging growth and high technology ventures. Siino graduated from the U.C. Berkeley in 1985 and from the Boalt School of Law at Berkeley in 1989.