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Miriam J. Masullo, Ph.D.
President and CEO
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Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, The City University of New York.
M.S., Computer Science, The City University of New York.
B.A., Architecture and English, The City College of New York
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Current position
Dr. Masullo is the founder, President and CEO of inViVo Vision.
She has over 16 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and spent the last
17 years at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a
Research Staff Member, the most senior research position in the
organization. While with IBM she was an executive-on-loan
for two years at the National Action Council for Minorities
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Relevant experience
Dr. Masullo has worked on numerous large-scale technology
projects in the areas of artificial intelligence, expert
systems, natural language processing, object oriented
systems, digital libraries, electronic commerce and educational
technology. She has served on various committees and expert
panels at the National Research Council and has received
numerous national and international awards for her work,
including a medal for contributions to society.
More detailed information on Dr. Masullo can be found at:
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Antonio Ruiz, Ph.D.
Consultant
Co-Founder and Partner
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Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
B.S., Electrical Engineering, City College of New York.
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Relevant experience
Dr. Ruiz is currently Chief Scientist at NAID, Inc.
He is responsible for creating, proposing and delivering all DoD and civilian government
agency solutions related to Homeland Defense. Dr. Ruiz has over twenty years of experience
as researcher, developer, and executive, managing the development of complex solutions for
commercial and government customers. Dr. Ruiz is the inventor of the DMT
(Discrete Multitone) technology which is the basis for the ADSL broadband access industry
standard and has more than twenty patents and patent pending in technology aolutions.
He started his R&D career at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and eventually became an
executive in IBM solutions and services.
Dr. Ruiz has been designing, and implementing solutions for Distance Learning for more than five
years in the areas of K-16, first at IBM, and later in several start-up companies.
He has published several papers in the areas of Distance Learning including a landmark paper
in UNESCO's "50 Years in Education" CD-ROM entitled: "A Universal and Global
Education Infrastructure," co-authored with Dr. Masullo.(ref-global education paper).
Dr. Ruiz personally holds U.S. Patent No. 6,343,319 on distance learning technology entitled:
Method and System for Curriculum Delivery." Dr. Ruiz is the author of over thirty
publications in different areas of technology and dozens of other patents held by
various corporation.
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Daniel Abensour, Ph.D.
Consultant |
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Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Toulouse, France.
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Relevant experience
Dr. Abensour is an internationally recognized expert in high-speed communications and the
technology of multimedia information networks of the future,
including Frame Relay, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), ISDN
(Integrated Services Digital Network), Network Management, Configurators and Security.
Dr. Abensour was Vice President of Technology, Advanced Product Design and Planning,
Corporate Architecture and External Engineering for the Racal Data Group.
He was also Vice Chairman of the Group Technical Office for Strategic Directions
and was in charge of the Racal Research laboratory in Sunrise, Florida.
Prior to joining Racal, Dr. Abensour spent many years with IBM.
Most recently, he was strategist for the IBM Networking Hardware Division.
Previously he was Program Director of ATM market development.
In this position, he developed SVN (Switched Virtual Networking).
Prior to that he was the IBM ATM Systems Manager responsible for worldwide coordination of the related engineering developments across several laboratories in the US and in Europe.
Besides his leadership involvement in ATM, Dr. Abensour was part of the team formulating
Artificial Intelligence strategy and products, and a member of the corporate task force on intermediate systems which led to the creation of the RISC 6000.
Dr. Abensour was Senior Manager of Software Technology (1983-1985) at
the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, where he had responsibility for the development of advanced software tools to improve software quality.
He was Senior Manager of the Communications and Advanced Networking at IBM Research.
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John G. Keating, Ph.D.
Consultant |
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Education
Ph.D., Experimental Physics, St. Patrick’s College, Ireland.
B.Sc., Experimental Physics and Mathematics, St. Patrick’s College, Ireland.
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Current position
Dr. Keating is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science
at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Ireland.
He was Lecturer at St. Patrick’s College in Maynooth, Ireland.
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Relevant experience
Dr. Keating's research interests include Physiological Modelling including Artificial
Neural Networks and Signal Processing. He is currently investigating optical
and acousto-optical implementations of neural networks and associated algorithms.
His research team has successfully implemented two connectionist architectures,
and has recently developed two new algorithms suitable for
implementation of the generalized Hough transform, and the Hough transform.
They have also demonstrated that it is possible to implement matrix-vector multiplication
using an LCD panel, a CCD detector and an Acousto-Optic device, and utilise the recorded
vector sum in an algorithm. Dr. Keating is also
interested in the fundamental limits on the computation possible using such a
co-processing system,
and in particular, the effects of system noise on the computation.
His research team is currently investigating specific and general
examples of training-with-noise for optical computing arrangements.
More detailed information on Dr. Keating can be found at:
National University of Ireland.
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Barbara E. McMullen
Consultant |
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Education
M.A., Public Administration, New York University.
B.A., Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University.
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Current position
Barbara E. McMullen is Director of the Center for E-Business at Marist College and
creator of The E-Commerce Radio Program from Marist College. She was previously
the Director of Academic Technology at Tufts University and earlier Director of
Academic Computing at Marist College. McMullen has also been an adjunct professor
of computer science and public administration at Marist College. She also taught at
New York University and at The New School For Social Research.
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Relevant experience
Barbara McMullen has been professionally involved with computer systems since 1964 and
has been an executive in the information systems area of large corporations as well
as president of the consulting firm, McMullen & McMullen, Inc. She is the co-author of
"Microcomputer communications: A Window on the World,"(John Wiley & Sons),
one of the first books on microcomputer communications, and over 1,000 news and
magazine articles. McMullen has also been a contributing editor to major
technological publications and is currently a charter editor for the
"Gallery of Course Vignettes," published by David Brown, Ph.D.,
Vice President and Dean, International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning (ICCEL),
Wake Forest University. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) and is cited in"Who's Who In American Women".
As Director of Academic Computing at Marist College,
McMullen founded "Marist Country," one of the first 1,000 World Wide Web servers.
Its primary purpose was to promote faculty who were incorporating technology
into the curriculum and to be a platform for experimentation and exploration
for Marist faculty and students. In her roles
as director of Academic Technology at Tufts University and director
of Academic Computing at Marist, McMullen created the Power!Team program as a
model of support for faculty multimedia development.
More detailed information on Barbara E. McMullen can be found at:
Marist College.
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Wilfredo Moreno, Ph.D.
Consultant
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Education
Ph.D., Electrical Enginenering, University of South Florida.
M.S., Electrical Enginenering, University of South Florida.
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Current position
Dr.Moreno, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering
at the University of South Florida and a member of the Center for Microelectronics
Research (CMR) where he serves as the supervisor of the Laser Processing &
System Integration Laboratory.
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Relevant experience
Dr. Moreno is involved in system integration by providing hardware/software solutions
to product development in the areas of communications, industrial controls,
and microelectronics based systems.
He also conducts research oriented towards the use of Lasers: Argon, Excimer,
and Nd:YAG in developing new methods and techniques for electronic circuitry interconnects
and test validation of VLSI fault tolerant designs.
Dr. Moreno has 13 years of teaching experience at the University level and 5 years at the
High School level prior to coming to USF.
He is also an active participant of instructional workshops and seminars offered at
the Center for Teaching Enhancement at USF.
In addition, Dr. Moreno has served as the Electrical Engineering Laboratory Supervisor
since 1986 and during his tenure he has developed a series of state-of-the art
laboratories in electrical engineering in the areas of circuits, electronics,
logic design, and microprocessors.
His latest development is based on a Prototype for Remote Laboratories via Internet
designed to be used as an additional teaching tool to undergraduate/graduate
Electrical Engineering courses and as a "virtual/real" laboratory for distance
learning programs.
Dr. Moreno serves as the faculty advisor to the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
(SHPE) student chapter at USF and during the last 3 years he has fostered
the ADVANCING CAREERS IN ENGINEERING (ACE) program at Tampa Bay Tech.
This program provides high school students with support in the areas on science and
mathematics, through the tutoring and guidance of college students, so they can excel in
these areas. The program was formed to create relationships between high school and
college students, to enforce the confidence of the high school student through moral and
educational support in order to encourage them to pursue a college education in engineering
after high school graduation.
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Gilbert Padilla
Consultant
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Education
ABD, 1997, Public Administration, University of Southern California
M.P.A., 1992, Public Administration, University of Southern California
B.S., 1979, Business Administration, University of Albuquerque
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Mr. Padilla brings over twenty years of government and private sector experience
gained as a program/project manager, analyst, and management consultant.
His education and experience provides a 360-degree perspective of the engineering
processes as well as the human dynamics that influence information technology
implementation efforts. His most recent research experience is with
Dynamics Research Corporation as a Senior Systems Analyst assigned
to the Interagency Task List (IATL) and Universal Joint Task List (UJTL)
Version 5.0 project. Principal responsibilities include research of the internal and
external tasks performed under interagency agreements that comprise the federal
emergency preparedness and response system. Mr. Padilla conducted research and analysis
to determine the Needs, Values, and Responsibilities (NVR) of the Federal Management
Administration (FEMA) and support agencies, with emphasis on tasks that have reciprocal
impact the Department of Defense. Collateral responsibilities include: assist
project manager plan and track project related activities, develop periodic reports of
work planned, work in progress, and accomplishments achieved, monitor project
expenditures. Mr. Padilla brings both private and public sector experience
leading a variety of Information Technology integration projects.
His responsibilities include full life cycle project planning, control, and execution,
change management, risk assessment, issues tracking, and status reporting.
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Linda A.Tsantis, Ed.D.
Consultant |
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Education
Ed.D. Education, George Washington University.
M.S., Special Education, Old Dominion University.
B.A., Sociology and Psychology, Old Dominion University.
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Relevant experience
Dr. Tsantis is currently at the Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Division of Education,
directing the educators program for the Center for Technology and Educators. She is also a
n Assistant Professor, Teacher Development and Leadership Department, Technology for
Educators Program at Johns Hopkins Univesity. Dr. Tsantis was Director of Academic
Affairs for the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association. She was a founder
and Director of Academic Affairs for the America Tomorrow, Inc. Prior to these assignments,
Dr. Tsantis worked at the IBM Washington Center, at George Washington University, Graduate
Division, and the Georgetown University Medical Center. She has presented and published in
the areas of Data Based Decision-Making, Educational Reform, Special Education, Use of Data
Mining Tools, Assistive Technologies, Cross Cultural Reactions and Alternative Assessment.
More detailed information on Dr. Tsantis can be found at:
Johns Hopkins University.
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