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We're pleased to welcome the following distinguished featured speakers to the 2011 Merit Member Conference.
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Brad WheelerVice President for Information Technology & CIO, Indiana University
About Dr. Brad Wheeler:
Dr. Brad Wheeler, Indiana University's vice president for information technology and chief information officer, leads IT services for IU's eight campuses. These services include research, educational, administrative, networking, and other shared IT services. He has co-founded some of higher education's most transformative software and service collaborations including the Sakai Project for teaching and learning software, Kuali for financial and other administrative systems, and the HathiTrust for digital copies of scanned books as part of the Google Book Project. These projects are a blend of both open source and traditional development models that have grown to an ecosystem encompassing over $60M of pooled investments from 50 institutions and 22 commercial firms. He is a professor of information systems in IU's Kelley School of Business, and has taught executive programs for corporate and MBA audiences on six continents.
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Jason ScottInternet historian, archivist and filmmaker, TEXTFILES.COM and Archive Team
About Jason Scott:
Jason Scott is a historian, archivist and raconteur affiliated with a host of projects dedicated to preserving digital and online history. In 1998, utilizing items he'd saved throughout his childhood, he started
TEXTFILES.COM, a collection of BBS texts, which expanded into all manner of files and programs. He has directed multiple documentaries on computer subjects, including "BBS: The Documentary", and "GET LAMP", a film about the text adventure genre. In 2009, he founded the
Archive Team, a rogue band of preservation activists fighting a trend of unchecked data deletion and loss of early online communities.
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