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List of Speakers, Panelists, and Moderators
By BradStenger | January 29, 2008
When we started planning this meeting we said we wanted a mix of newspeople, technology entrepreneurs, academics, and researchers. Diversity, we felt, would allow us to see the intersection of computation and journalism from every possible angle. So far, so good.
- Chris Barr - senior editorial director at Yahoo! and former founding Editor in Chief of CNet Networks
- Krishna Bharat - Principal Scientist at Google and creator of Google News
- Ian Bogost - videogame designer, critic, and researcher, Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games
- John Brothers - CTO of the Sunlight Foundation
- Amy Bruckman - Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Neil Budde - former Editor in Chief at Yahoo! News
- David Cohn - Beatblogging.org and NewAssignment.net
- Ezra Cooperstein - Director of Development and Production for the Viewer-Created Content group at Current TV
- Leah Culver - Founder of Pownce, a San Francisco-based micro-blogging service
- Wally Dean - Online/Broadcast Director at the Committee of Concerned Journalists
- Carl DiSalvo - Assistant Professor, School of Language, Literature, and Communication, Georgia Tech
- Paul Ferguson - Supervising Editor, International News, CNN
- Nic Fulton - Chief Scientist, Reuters Media
- Xaquin G.V. - Assistant Art Director at Newsweek.com and former Infographics Director at elmundo.es
- Mitchell Gelman - senior vice president and executive producer of CNN.com
- John Geraci - Co-Creator of outside.in
- Rich Gordon - Associate Professor and Director of Digital Technology in Education, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
- Andrew Haeg - Senior Producer, Center for Innovation in Journalism, American Public Media
- Kristian Hammond - Co-Director Intelligent Information Lab, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University
- Mark Hansen - Co-PI of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA, creator of sensorbase.org
- Alexander Hauptman - Senior Systems Scientist working on the Informedia: News-on-Demand project at Carnegie Mellon University
- Jeffrey Heer - University of California-Berkeley, creator of the Vizster social network visualization, the prefuse visualization toolkit, and the sense.us collaborative visualization interface
- Ramesh Jain - Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences, Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss - lead developer for the Lawrence Journal-World and the Django Web application framework
- Anton Kast - Lead Scientist, Digg
- Gary Kebbel - Program Director at the Knight Foundation in charge of the Knight News Challenge
- Lila King- Senior Producer, Interactive Storytelling and User Participation at CNN.com
- Cliff Lampe - Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
- Solana Larsen - co-Managing Editor, GlobalVoicesOnline.org
- Shawn McIntosh - Director of Culture and Change at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Wilson Miner - Designer and Co-Founder of Everyblock
- Carol Minton Morris - Communications Director, National Science Digital Library
- Nate Nichols - Creator of NewsAtSeven
- Nora Paul - Director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota
- Jenny Preece - Dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, developing 911.gov, a prototype Community Response Grid
- Michael Rogers - Futurist in Residence, R&D Operations, New York Times
- Michael Skoler - Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Journalism at American Public Media
- John Stasko - Director of the Information Interfaces Research Group at Georgia Tech, currently on leave at Microsoft Research and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Elizabeth Spiers - media columnist for Fast Company magazine, founding editor of Gawker.com
- Amra Tareen - Founder and CEO, AllVoices.com
- Leonard Witt - Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and Founder of the Public Journalism Network
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