WHO IS CAIRNS?

Beth Simone Noveck,  Principal Investigator, directs the Democracy Design Workshop. She is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School, where she also directs the Institute for Information Law and Policy. She is also a founding fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and the President of Bodies Electric LLC. For more information, please click here.

David Johnson, Co-Principal Investigator, is a Professor of Law at New York Law School. Previously, Mr. Johnson joined Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in 1973 and became a partner in 1980. Mr. Johnson recently retired as a partner of WCP and is devoting substantial time to the development of new types of "graphical groupware" software products. For more information, please click here.

Chun Li, Project Manager is Program Manager for the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School and the Democracy Design Workshop.   He is currently pursuing a J.D. at NYLS.  For more information, please send email to cli@nyls.edu.

NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL LEAD TECHNOLOGISTS

Tom Igoe is a researcher and physical interaction design consultant for The American Museum of the Moving Image, EAR Studio, Diller + Scofidio Architects, Eos Orchestra, and other clients. Came to interactive multimedia after several years of theatre lighting, working for the Spoleto Festival USA, the American Repertory Theatre, and others. Main area of research and consulting is physical interaction and human-computer interface, especially as related to public space and/or live performance. Recent projects include a a series of networked banquet table centerpieces and musical instruments for Eos Orchestra; an email clock; and "Not Your Mother's Dollhouse", a series of interactive dioramas, created in collaboration with M.R. Petit. The latter was shown as part of the IV Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital in Cuba, June 2002. For more information, please click here.

Dan O’Sullivan is an associate professor at ITP, the interactive media program in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His interests include building more evocative online public spaces and generally richer human computer interfaces. He has been teaching at ITP since 1991 and came on full time in 1998. Dan developed the classes, the show and the lab for Physical Computing at ITP and is currently the area head for Networking and Computational Media. At NYU he has also been an Interval Research Fellow, and research scientist for Intel, Microsoft and NYNEX. Prior to becoming full time at ITP, Dan was president of his own new media company, O'Sullivision for seven years with clients including HBO, Microsoft, Oxygen, USA Networks and Viacom. As a NYNEX research scientist at NYU he developed the YORB interactive television show which ran for many years on Manhattan Cable. At Apple Computer he worked at the Human Interface Group and is credited with developing QuickTimeVR. As a graduate student in 1990 he developed many zany interactive shows such as Dan’s Apartment and Marianne Rubberhead which are still remembered fondly by late night viewers of Manhattan Cable Television. B.S., Northwestern; M.P.S., New York.

FRIENDS OF CAIRNS   Geraldine Chung is a Multimedia developer whose secret ambition is to become a music producer.  After graduating from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in English and economics, she worked as a Web programmer in San Francisco before moving to New York to receive her Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU.  Geraldine co-produced "Hello Kitty Is Dead," an experimental video piece exploring the exotification of Asian women in the media and received a NIA award as a co-coordinator of "Fortunes for Cookies," an after-school program for outer-borough New York high school girls.  Her mini-documentary, "The Art of Hollering" (co-produced by Vivian Wenli Lin) was shown at the Hip Hop Documentary Film Festival in New York.     Patrick Dwyer is an independant software developer seeking answers to new and old problems through creative applications and tools. A firm believer in computer code as an expressive form, Patrick lives, works, and plays in New York City. For more information, please click here.       Sandy Heierbacher, Convenor, National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation.  NCDD emerged from the October 2002 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation, which was held in Alexandria, Virginia, and was attended by 240 leaders in the D&D community. The Coalition has grown from having 50 members at the time of the conference to over 170 members a year later.  The organizations and individuals who make up NCDD are committed to continuing to find ways to strengthen and unite the dialogue and deliberation community. The 2002 National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation was a collaborative effort among 60 practitioners and 50 organizations. For more about Sandy, please click here

Brook Manville is the Chief Learning Officer and Chief Customer Evangelist at Saba Software Inc., and leads the think tank and executive education initiatives. He is the author of A Company of Citizens: What the Worlds First Democracy Teaches Leaders About Creating Great Organizations and of The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens. For more information, please click here.

Marianne Law is a recent graduate of New York Law School. She worked in the field of international human rights advocacy with Human Rights Watch before attending law school. She founded Cirque Pour Tous, USA  to raise funds with circus partners in France and the UK for a circus school for homeless children in Cali, Colombia. Currently, she is writing an article on the electronic litigation system in Singapore. For more information, please click here.