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Brian Mathews is Library leader, administrator, and innovator whose career in academic libraries spans multiple decades. He maintains a driving interest in helping research libraries evolve — and the related structures & culture that enables successful transformation. Mathews explores professional interests in the way people engage with information: in his words, their “personal knowledge management.” Mathews also was the co-founder of the Carnegie Mellon University Library’s Robotics Project, and he served as the principal investigator on a grant from Sloan Foundation related to the formation of the Digital Robotics Archive. | Brian Mathews is Library leader, administrator, and innovator whose career in academic libraries spans multiple decades. He maintains a driving interest in helping research libraries evolve — and the related structures & culture that enables successful transformation. Mathews explores professional interests in the way people engage with information: in his words, their “personal knowledge management.” Mathews also was the co-founder of the Carnegie Mellon University Library’s Robotics Project, and he served as the principal investigator on a grant from Sloan Foundation related to the formation of the Digital Robotics Archive. | ||
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| + | Brandon Nightingale is a highly experienced professional in the fields of project management and academia, currently serving as a Senior Project Manager at Howard University since May 2022. Previously, Brandon held multiple roles, including Professor, University Archivist, and Assistant Archivist at Bethune-Cookman University from April 2019 to December 2022, and worked as a Public History Contractor with the National Park Service focusing on African American history at Cumberland Island National Seashore from December 2020 to April 2022. Educational credentials include a Master of Arts in Public History and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Central Florida and Florida State University, respectively, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Central Florida. Currently, Brandon is pursuing a PhD in History at Howard University, expected to conclude in December 2026. | ||
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Keynote nominations are closed.
Kate Deibel
Katherine "Kate" Deibel has had a varied career in academia working within and across many disciplines, including computer science, education, disability, comics, digital literacies, and libraries. After transitioning in her first year of graduate school, she earned her PhD in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in 2011 with a multidisciplinary study of the social and technological factors that hinder adoption of reading technologies among adults with dyslexia. As an ardent advocate for usable and accessible technologies, she works and educates to ensure that library technologies are effective tools for both library patrons and staff. Having worked in library technologies at the University of Washington and Syracuse University Libraries, she now is the systems librarian at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, spearheading their adoption of open library systems such as FOLIO and VuFind.
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Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is a science journalist who also writes science fiction. They are the author of several books, including Automatic Noodle, an instant USA Today bestseller, The Terraformers, which was nominated for the Nebula Award, and Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age. They have a monthly column in New Scientist magazine, and are the co-host of the Hugo-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. (from Website)
Newitz was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 2002 to 2003, supporting them as a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004 to 2005 Newitz was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007 to 2009 was on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. (from Wikipedia)
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Xe Iaso
Xe Iaso is "a technical educator, conference speaker, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process." They are best-known in the code4lib community for their work on Anubis, which "weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers" and is widely used by code4libbers defending cultural heritage web sites from bot onslaught. They are an experienced and engaging conference speaker. They have gotten pretty engaged with the code4lib community as they support our use of Anubis, and I think it would be neat if we all got to meet each other.
Nate Matias
Dr. J. Nathan Matias is a social scientist and Cornell faculty member who "stud[ies] digital governance and behavior change in groups and networks shaped by AI systems" and "collaborate[s] with the public in citizen behavioral science, working for a world where digital power is guided by evidence and accountable to the public." His research includes concrete interventions to improve the quality of discourse and safety in online communities. These days, he's interested in speaking on AI governance, "community-led field experiments in computing, social-psychology, and technology governance", and independent, non-corporate research. He is an experienced public speaker and also one of the nicest people you will ever meet.
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis, completed in 2005, was the first publication to use the term "human computation", referring to methods that combine human brainpower with computers to solve problems that neither could solve alone. In 2007, von Ahn invented reCAPTCHA,[26] a new form of CAPTCHA that also helps digitize books. In 2009, von Ahn and his graduate student Severin Hacker started developing Duolingo, which now has 46.6 million daily active users worldwide.
von Ahn was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in 2009, a Sloan Fellowship in 2009, and a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship in 2007, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012.
Much of this information was taken from the Wikipedia article, Luis von Ahn.
Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen is the digital archivist at the UC San Francisco Archives and Special Collections. With over 20 years of experience in archives, Lisa is constantly innovating ways to preserve and share historical collections from audiovisual to born-digital content for future access by researchers and the general public. Lisa is collaborating with others to harness and leverage AI to enhance discovery and access to historical collections in medicine and health sciences, especially from marginalized voices and experiences. At a time when government agencies censor or erase invaluable scientific research/documents/websites, it has become timely and more critical for digital archivists like Lisa to work collaboratively, collectively, and efficiently as a community to document the past in health sciences and to share how they are approaching it. As an archivist, Lisa has presented and participated in global projects in Asia. She brings an international perspective and vision on how technologies are evolving and changing to be utilized for digital archival and library work.
Welcome Lisa Nguyen, Digital Archivist CLIR Preserving Voices, Saving History Celebrating World Digital Preservation Day
Brian Mathews
Dean and University Librarian of the Carol Grotnes Belk Library, Elon University
Brian Mathews is Library leader, administrator, and innovator whose career in academic libraries spans multiple decades. He maintains a driving interest in helping research libraries evolve — and the related structures & culture that enables successful transformation. Mathews explores professional interests in the way people engage with information: in his words, their “personal knowledge management.” Mathews also was the co-founder of the Carnegie Mellon University Library’s Robotics Project, and he served as the principal investigator on a grant from Sloan Foundation related to the formation of the Digital Robotics Archive.
Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff is a retired professor from the Harvard Business School, and is "a scholar, writer, and activist" and "is the author of three major books, each signaling a new epoch in technological society. Her most recent work, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019), synthesizes her decades of research and thinking to reveal a new economic era in which once private human experience is secretly invaded, extracted as data, and exploited for hidden processes of manufacturing, prediction, and sales." Her research is particularly important as libraries and technologists grapple with the emerging role of AI in the information landscape.
Emily Laird
Emily Laird is the AI Integration Technologist at UW-Stout, where she collaborates in support of campus-wide efforts to integrate artificial intelligence into education, research, and industry collaboration. With expertise in AI foundations, generative AI, AI literacy, and industry integration, she works closely with faculty, staff, and students to advance AI adoption and support ethical, effective implementation of emerging AI technologies.
Emily is the host of Generative AI 101, a podcast dedicated to supporting AI literacy for all. She is also a national speaker [and an entertaining one!] on AI literacy and AI integration, engaging industry leaders, educators, and policymakers in discussions on the changing role of AI in business, education, and society. (from University Profile)
Brandon Nightingale
Black Press Manager of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center of Howard University
Brandon Nightingale is a highly experienced professional in the fields of project management and academia, currently serving as a Senior Project Manager at Howard University since May 2022. Previously, Brandon held multiple roles, including Professor, University Archivist, and Assistant Archivist at Bethune-Cookman University from April 2019 to December 2022, and worked as a Public History Contractor with the National Park Service focusing on African American history at Cumberland Island National Seashore from December 2020 to April 2022. Educational credentials include a Master of Arts in Public History and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Central Florida and Florida State University, respectively, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Central Florida. Currently, Brandon is pursuing a PhD in History at Howard University, expected to conclude in December 2026.
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