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Chair and Day 1 Moderator
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Biography
Jim Spohrer is the Director of Almaden Services Research at IBM's Almaden Research
Center in San Jose, CA. IBM Global Services (IGS) is a people-intensive, information-intensive
business of over 170,000 professionals world-wide, accounting for almost half
of IBM's yearly revenues, and innovation for IGS is the focus of the Almaden Services
Research group. Human sciences, On-Demand Innovation Services (ODIS), deep industry
knowledge of future trends, and operations technology are areas of active exploration.
From 2000-2003, at IBM, he was CTO of IBM's Venture Capital Relations Group, where
he identified technology trends and worked to establish win-win relationships
between IBM and VC-backed portfolio companies. Previously, Dr. Spohrer directed
the IBM Almaden Research Center's (ARC) Computer Science Foundation Department,
and before that was senior manager and co-strategist for IBM's User Experience/Human
Computer Interaction Research effort.
From 1989-1998, at Apple, he was a DEST (Distinguished Engineer, Scientist,
and Technologist) and program manager of learning technology projects in Apple's
Advanced Technology Group (ATG). He lead the effort to create Apple's first
on-line learning community and vision for mobile any time, any where e-learning.
From 1978-1982, he developed speech recognition algorithms and products at Verbex,
an Exxon Enterprises company.
Jim received a B.S. in Physics from MIT in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science
from Yale University in 1988. In 1989, Jim lived in Rome, Italy where he was
a visiting scholar at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and lecturer at major
universities across Europe. Jim has published broadly in the areas of speech
recognition, empirical studies of programmers, artificial intelligence, authoring
tools, on-line learning communities, open source software, intelligent tutoring
systems and student modeling, new paradigms in using computers, implications
of rapid technical change, as well as the coevolution of social, business, and
technical systems. Jim has also helped to establish two education research non-profit
web sites: The Educational Object Economy (http://www.eoe.org/)
and WorldBoard: Associating Information with Places (http://www.worldboard.org/).
Jim is a frequent advisor to the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department
of Education, and other groups (http://www.merlot.org,
http://www.newmediacenters.org)
on the implications of rapid technological change to the future of education.
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