Douglas E. Van Houweling is President and CEO of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), the formal organization supporting Internet2. Before being named to the position on October 1, 1997, Van Houweling served as Vice Chair of the Internet2 Steering Committee with responsibility for partner relations. Dr. Van Houweling has played a major role in Internet development in the United States. He was chairman of the Board of MERIT, Inc., a Michigan statewide computing network, when the National Science Foundation awarded it responsibility for operation and management of the NSFNET national backbone in partnership with IBM, MCI and the Michigan Strategic Fund in 1987. Van Houweling was also chairman of the Board of Advanced Network and Services Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that implemented and operated the world's largest Internet backbone network from 1991 until 1995. In 1995, Advanced Network and Services transferred its operational capability to America Online through a $40M sale and is using the proceeds to support networking for education and research. Van Houweling has also been active in inter-university initiatives, serving on the EDUCOM Board and playing roles in establishing numerous initiatives to establish cooperative information technology efforts among universities. He was a founder of EDUCOM's Networking and Telecommunications Task Force and the Inter-university Consortium for Educational Computing. Van Houweling is chairman of the Board of the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM), a research and development enterprise serving Michigan and the nation in the fields of remote sensing, environmental analysis, and information technology. Dr. Van Houweling holds a faculty position at the University of Michigan as Professor in the School of Information. Before undertaking his responsibilities at UCAID, Professor Van Houweling was Dean for Academic Outreach and Vice Provost for Information and Technology at the University of Michigan. As Dean for Academic Outreach, he was responsible for providing access to the University's learning environment, research activities, and service programs unconstrained by space and time. As Vice Provost for Information and Technology, he was responsible for the University's strategic direction in the information technology arena. Professor Van Houweling also holds academic appointments in the University of Michigan Business School and in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts in the Department of Political Science. Van Houweling came to Michigan from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he was Vice Provost for Computing and Planning from 1981 until 1984. In that capacity, he initiated and directed Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew project to enable broad use of personal computer workstations in a networked environment. Before joining Carnegie-Mellon, Van Houweling was at Cornell University from 1970 to 1981 as Assistant Professor of Government. In 1976, he took on the additional responsibility of Assistant Director for User Services in Cornell Computer Services. In 1978, he was named Director of Academic Computing and in 1980 became Director of Academic Computing and Central Computing Services. Dr. Van Houweling received his undergraduate degree from Iowa State University and his Ph.D. in Government from Indiana University. He has consulted with numerous organizations and businesses and has written many articles on information technology, as well as on urban policies and the modeling of political processes.
Ted Hanss is the Director of Applications Development for Internet2. He coordinates activities aimed at building and deploying the next generation of network-based applications in support of research and education.Ted is on loan from the University of Michigan where he served for several years as a senior manager in the University of Michigan's Information Technology Division. Among other responsibilities, he was Director of the Center for Information Technology Integration, a computer science research and development lab focusing on distributed systems. Ted has a B.S. in Biology from Boston College and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Heather Boyles is Director
of International Relations for Internet2. She has senior management responsibilities for
Internet2's relationship with non-US advanced networking initiatives. Heather has been
with the Internet2 project since its inception in the fall of 1996. She has built the
Internet2 international program from its first partnership with Canada's CANARIE
organization to today over 40 partnerships with high-performance research and education
networking organizations from around the world. Heather has also served as Director of
Government Relations and Chief of Staff for Internet2.
Heather came to Internet2 initially on loan from her previous position as Director of
Policy and Special Projects at the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET). At
FARNET, she created and wrote FARNET's Washington Update - a weekly review of policy
issues of interest to the network research and education community. She also served at
FARNET as co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant.
Heather holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from the American University in
Washington, DC and a Bachelor of Art's Degree in International Relations and German from
Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
In his day job, Louis Fox is Vice Provost for Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies at the University of Washington, where he has been for the last twenty years and has held numerous academic and administrative posts, all with obscure titles. Lacking hobbies, Fox has accepted a new role with Internet2 where he is leading a national Internet2-K20 Initiative. The I2-K20 Initiative brings together Internet2 members (180 research institutions) with primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to get new technologies！advanced networking tools, content, and applications！into the hands of innovators, across all educational sectors in the United States, as quickly and as ＾connectedly￣ as possible, and to connect these innovators to similar communities around the globe.
Dr. Ronn Ritke is the manager of the NLANR measurement and network analysis group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). He has participated on the Design Team for the Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative and is working with Matt Zekauskas as part of the Measurement Infrastructure Group. Ronn received his PhD degree in 2000 from the Computer Science Department at the University of California at Los Angeles in Network Measurement and Analysis.
Mary Fran Yafchak is the IT Program Coordinator for SURA (Southeastern Universities Researach Association), where she works to further the development of regional information technology collaborations. She is an active member of ViDe (The Video Development Initiative, http://www.vide.net), Vidmid (http://middleware.internet2.edu/video), and past co-chair and current member of the Internet 2 Digital Video working group (http://dv.internet2.edu). Mary Fran is also currently leading the NMI (NSF Middleware Initiative) Testbed Program, as part of an NSF-funded partnership with Internet 2, EDUCAUSE, and the GRIDS Center.