Dr. Yael Ravin
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Yael Ravin received her Ph.D in Linguistics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She also holds an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from Columbia University in New York and a B.A., Cum Lauda, from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
Since joining IBM in 1987, Dr. Ravin has worked as a Research Staff Member, at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, in the areas of computational linguistics and knowledge management, specializing in grammar checking, advanced search technologies and text analysis. In 2001-2002, she was on a one-year assignment to IBM Headquarters, as technical staff. Until recently, she led IBM’s Institute for Advanced Learning, a research program dedicated to the design and development of technologies for e-learning. Currently, Dr. Ravin is working on an internal IBM initiative in Knowledge Sharing.
Dr. Ravin has published two books on lexical semantics and holds five patents in computational linguistics.
Dr. Ravin has presented at major international conferences on Natural Language Processing and e-Learning. Most recently, she spoke about learning technology and innovation at Online Educa in Berlin, eLearn Expo in Moscow, and in the US at TechLearn and ASTD.
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Teemu Arina
Mr. Teemu Arina has spent 1/3 of his life as an entrepreneur before the age of 25, teaching his first semester at the age of 17, building two large internationally known Open Source projects and working as an advisor to many startups, enterprises, universities and policy makers on the impact of social technologies on their operations.
Currently he helds the CEO position at Dicole Ltd., a SME focusing on understanding the role of social technologies (including Web 2.0) in knowledge work and networked learning in organizations. Dicole Ltd. develops Dicole Knowledge Work Environment, a professional environment for knowledge workers that combines wikis, blogs, feeds, APIs and other technologies in a unified system that supports multiple separate or interconnected work areas for individuals and groups.
He also works occassionally as a visiting lecturer at universities like Helsinki University of Technology, University of Joensuu, Lappeenranta University of Technology and University of Art and Design Helsinki. In addition to his duties as an industry advisor, Teemu is on the industry board of PROLEARN and is one of the founding members of Vope Ry (Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Education Association) in Finland. He writes on FLOSSE Posse (Vope group blog) focusing on Open Source in education and Tarina (personal blog) focusing on networked learning, knowledge and collaboration in organizations.
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Dr. Detlef Schoder
Detlef Schoder is Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne, Germany. He was appointed reviewer to the German Parliament's Lower House for e-Commerce issues and consults the European Commission on research projects. He was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and MIT, Cambridge, USA. Detlef is on the editorial boards of several international journals covering e-Business. His research interests include Ambient Intelligence, Mass Customization, Information Management, and IT-based media innovations.
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Collaborative Innovation Networks
Daniel Oster
Daniel Oster holds a Master's degree in Information Systems of the University of Cologne. He is a staff member of a large German Savings Bank. His areas of expertise include management support tools, change management, and collaborative innovation networks. His research areas are "social networks and team performance" and the "dynamics of social networks".
Dr. Peter Scott
Dr Peter J Scott is the Director of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University. Peter's own research group in KMi prototypes the application of new technologies and media to learning at all levels. Peter’s current research interests range widely across knowledge and media research. Three key threads at the moment are: tele-presence; streaming media systems; and ubiquity. He has a BA (1983) and PhD (1987) in Psychology. Before joining the Open University in 1995, Dr Scott lectured in Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Sheffield. He has a textbook in each of these subjects. Dr Scott is regularly a keynote speaker at international research conferences, from Netties in Oulu, Finland; Learning Management Congress Munich, Germany; the K2 Summit in Amsterdam, Holland; to Tedis in Venice, Italy. In 2006 he was invited speaker at EdMedia in Florida, USA, keynote speaker at the i-Know congress, Graz Austria, and keynote at Online Educa, Berlin Germany.
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Dr. Eleftheria Tomadaki
Dr Eleftheria Tomadaki is a research fellow in the Knowledge Media Institute (Open University, UK), focusing
on collaborative media, e-Learning and social software. Her role involves the integration of the video conferencing tool FlashMeeting with the Moodle e-learning environment and the development of a theory and analytical framework to underpin the study of large-scale synchronous collaborative media, in the context of the Open Content Initiative. She received her PhD in information extraction by the University of Surrey. Her PhD research investigated the merging of information from texts describing video content for video annotation by employing cross-document coreference techniques and introduced a new and challenging scenario - film and the variety of collateral text genres narrating its content, including unrestricted sets of events.
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Hans Coppens
Hans Coppens is a teacher and researcher at the Japanse Studies department of the K.U.Leuven. He is also the coordiantor for ICT-projects in the faculty of Arts at K.U.Leuven. His professional interests include: Educational Technology, Open Source methods, Japanese media and popular culture and (self-directed) learning.