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Steering CommitteeThe DSpace Steering Committee provides oversight of the overall project. The steering committee represents the two major sponsoring organizations (HP and MIT Libraries), as well as DSpace customers. Robin Gallimore, HPMacKenzie Smith, MITMacKenzie Smith is Associate Director for Technology at the MIT Libraries. Formerly she was the Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems where she managed the design and implementation of the Library Digital Initiative. Prior to that she worked in various capacities in the Harvard Library's systems office, and in the Library Systems Office at the University of Chicago. Her background is in applied technology in libraries and academia, and she holds a MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Chicago as well as a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. Nick Wainwright, HPNick Wainwright is currently a research department manager at HP Labs, in Bristol, UK (www.hpl.hp.com). Nick's current research interests are in information infrastructure for future Internet services. Nick has a degree in Electronic and Electrical engineering from the University of Bristol. After graduating, Nick spent four years with London-based software and systems consultancy Logica PLC, working on systems as diverse as the first operational fingerprint matching system for the Metropolitan Police at New Scotland Yard to real time streaming video interface hardware to massively parallel digital array processors. After working with Crossfield Electronics (a leading supplier of pre-press publishing and image processing equipment) to create high speed local network systems, Nick joined the Network and Communications Laboratory of Hewlett Packard Laboratories, in Bristol, England. Nick has been with HP Labs for 14 years, and carried out research into a variety of communications systems, including high speed networks and high speed network interface architectures, and ATM networking. Nick was a founding member and chair of the technical committee of the Infra Red Data Association which created the standard for low cost IR communications for PDAs, phones, and other handheld devices. In addition to research in networks and communication systems, Nick has lead research into embedded reconfigurable computing architectures, resulting in the Chess reconfigurable computing architecture.Ann Wolpert, MITAnn Wolpert is Director of Libraries for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has reporting responsibility for the MIT Press. The MIT Libraries include five major collections, a number of smaller branch libraries in specialized subject areas, a fee-for-services group, and the Institute Archives. The MIT Press publishes about 200 new books and over 40 journals per year in fields related to or reliant upon science and technology, and is widely recognized for its innovative graphic design and electronic publishing initiatives. Ann's Institute responsibilities include membership on the Committee on Copyright and Patents, the Council on Educational Technology, the Dean's Committee, and the President's Academic Council. She is a member of the editorial board of the MIT Press, and chairs its Management Board. Prior to joining MIT, Ann was Executive Director of Library and Information Services at the Harvard Business School. Her experience previous to Harvard included management of the Information Center of Arthur D. Little, Inc., an international management and technology consulting firm, where she was also engaged in consulting assignments. More recent consulting assignments have taken her to the campuses of INCAE in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and to the Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Selangor, Malaysia. Ann is active in the professional library community, currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Boston Library Consortium; on the Information Policies Committee of the Association of Research Libraries; and as a member of the editorial boards of Library & Information Science Research and The Journal of Library Administration. A frequent speaker and writer, she has recently contributed papers on such topics as library service to remote library users, intellectual property management in the electronic environment, and the future of research libraries in the digital age. She received the BA from Boston University and the MLS from Simmons College. In 1998 she was nominated for and accepted into the National Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education of the American Council on Education.
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