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facilitator and panelist biographies |
| About Professor Karim
Lakhani, Participate 08 facilitator |
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Karim R.Lakhani is an
assistant professor in the
Technology and Operations Management Unit
at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in the
management of technological innovation and product
development in firms and communities .His research is on
distributed innovation systems and the movement of
innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into
communities. He has extensively studied |
| the emergence of open
source software communities and their unique innovation and
product development strategies. He has also investigated how
critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be
found and put to use inside for innovation in the
biotechnology, life science and industrial chemicals
industries. He is co-editor of
Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software(MIT
Press,2005) and co-founder of the MIT-based
Open Source research community and web portal. |
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| About John Wilbanks,
Participate 08 panelist |
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John Wilbanks is the
Vice President of
Science
Commons, a project of
Creative Commons. He came to
Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the World Wide Web
Consortium in Semantic Web for Life Sciences. Previously,
he founded and led to acquisition Incellico, a
bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks
for user in pharmaceutical research & development. Before
founding Incellico, John was the first |
| Assistant Director at
the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law
School. His first technology work was at fornix, where he
researched human-computer interface and pattern recognition.
He also worked in US politics as a legislative aide to
U.S. Representative Fortney(Pete) Stark and a grassroots
coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical
Therapy Association. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in
Philosophy from Tulane University and studied modern letters
at the Universite de Paris IV(La Sorbonne).He is a research
affiliate at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory and can be found in the project MAC
groupspace. He serves on the Advisory Board of the U.S
National Library of Medicines's PubMed Central and the
International Advisory Board of the Prix Ars Electronica's
Digital Communities awards. |
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| About Allison Randal,
Participate 08 panelist |
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Allison Randal is the
Program co-Chair for
O'Reilly's Open Source Convention
and Energy Innovation Conference. Her first geek career was
as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her
love of coding drew her away from natural languages to
artificial ones. Allison is the architect of Parrot(a
virtual machine for dynamic languages),on the board of
directors of the
Perl
Foundation, and |
| founder and president of
Onyx Neon. She co-authored Perl 6
and Parrot Essentialism, and has edited various O'Reily
books on dynamic languages including Perl Hacks and
Programming PHP. |
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| About Siobhan O'Mahony,
Participate 08 panelist |
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Siobhan O'Mahony's is an
Assistant Professor of Management at the
UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Her research examines the social, technical, online
production communities organize and how new forms of
cooperation unite individuals, firms and communities in the
development of shared platforms Siobhan O'Mahony's is an
Assistant Professor of Management at the UC Davis Graduate
and School of |
| Management. Her
research examines the social, technical, and legal factors
that influence cumulative innovation. She has studied how
online production communities organize and how new forms of
cooperation unite individuals, firms and communities in the
development of shared platforms for cumulative innovation. A
pervasive objective is to understand how competing logics or
interests shape the design and management of new forms of
organizing. Her
work
has been published in Research Policy and Research in
Organizational Behavior, among other edited volumes. She has
presented her research at numerous industry and academic
conferences throughout North America and Europe. Her
research, "Competing on a Common Platform", examines how
more than 100 firms define grounds for cooperation and
contribute to a common and open technical platform while
creating a source of competitive differentiation. |
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| About Bryan Kirschner,
Participate 08 panelist |
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Bryan Kirschner is
Director of Platform Community Strategy at Microsoft Corp.
He has been a leader in Microsoft's efforts to establish
deep cross-domain expertise as a basis for engagement with
commercial and non-commercial open source communities. He is
responsible for development of a global community of
practice inside and outside of Microsoft for users and
developers of open source |
| software and academic
researchers on open source approaches. He is a member of the
Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft team and an active
blogger on Microsoft and open source on
Port25. the portal for
communication from the Open Source Community at Microsoft.
He has a previous background in public policy analysis. He
holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale University. |
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| About Zack Urlocker,
Participate 08 panelist |
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Zack Urlocker is Vice President of Products for Sun's database products. He is responsible for all marketing, product management and engineering activities. Zack is a veteran technology executive, with 20 years of enterprise software experience. Prior to joining MySQL AB, Zack held executive positions at Active Software, and Borland International. He is a frequent speaker and blogger on open source technology. |
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