Keynote Speakers

Annie Stunden: Building the Technology Quilt

The conference will open with a plenary keynote address by long-time SIGUCCS member, Ann (“Annie”) Stunden, Chief Information Officer and Director of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW-Madison is a 40,000 student research university with a major commitment to transformational change of the teaching and learning environment through the use of technology.

Annie will be talking about the challenge of putting in place the "right" technology organization for a campus community. The pieces of the challenge include the organization, the staff, the technology infrastructure, the applications, the services, the policies and procedures.  Getting this "stuff" together in an integrated fashion to provide an excellent environment for our higher education user communities is an ongoing creative adventure.

From 1996 to 2000 Annie was Director of Academic Technology at Cornell University. At Cornell, Annie led a 70-person organization (and about 200 student staff) in the provision of technology support for faculty and students in their teaching and learning efforts, as well as support for the campus community in doing their day-to-day work using technology tools.

Annie's long-term ties with SIGUCCS have included being deputy program chair and then program chair for the SIGUCCS Management Symposium. She has also served as a program track leader and a member of the program planning committee for the Seminars on Academic Computing, an EDUCAUSE affiliated program.

Annie believes she has been "grandmothered" in the field of technology, having started out as an operating systems and compiler developer in 1959. She brings perspective, vision and enthusiasm to her presentation. Conference participants will quickly understand why her staff has nicknamed her "the Bionic CIO."

More information about Ms. Stunden can be found at www.doit.wisc.edu/stunden.

Ben Shneiderman: "Leonardo's Laptop: Building Creativity into Education"

Ben Shneiderman is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland. Dr. Shneiderman is the author of Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies (2002, MIT Press) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th edition, 2004, Addison-Wesley). Leonardo's Laptop won the IEEE 2003 award for Distinsguished Literary Contribution.