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Marc Prensky is an internationally
acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical
areas of education and learning. He is the author of Digital
Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the founder of Games2train,
whose clients include IBM, Nokia and the US Department of Defense;
and creator of www.socialimpactgames.com.
Marc has created over 50 software games, including the world's first
fast-action videogame-based training tools and world-wide, multi-player,
multi-team on-line competitions. He has been featured in articles
in The NY Times and The Wall Street Journal, has appeared on CNN,
MSNBC and PBS, and was named as one of training's top 10 "visionaries"
by Training magazine. He holds graduate degrees from Harvard and
Yale. www.marcprensky.com
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Dr. Chris Dede is the Timothy E.
Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School
of Education. Chris Dede's fundamental interest is the expanded
human capabilities for knowledge creation, sharing, and mastery
that emerging technologies enable. His teaching models the use of
information technology to distribute and orchestrate learning across
space, time, and multiple interactive media. His research spans
emerging technologies for learning, infusing technology into large-scale
educational improvement initiatives, policy formulation and analysis,
and leadership in educational innovation. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~dedech
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Frank Anderson is President of
the Defense Acquisition University (DAU). He is a retired Brigadier
General, United States Air Force. He previously served as Vice President
of Defense Acquisition University and led the strategic planning
process that shaped the current DAU reengineering initiatives. He
was a former Commandant of the Defense Systems Management College,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Contracting, and
Air Force Competition Advocate General. He also served as the first
chairman of the Federal Inter-agency Working Group for Alternate
Dispute Resolution. He was selected for Who's Who in America for
2000 and received the 2001 National Contract Management Association's
National Achievement Award. Finally, he was selected to receive
the 2002 E-Learning Magazine's E-Learning Innovator of the Year
Award.
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J.C. Herz is a researcher and designer
with a background in ecology and computer game design. Drawing from
an understanding of ecology, online social dynamics, complex systems
and information theory, J.C.'s focus is multiplayer interaction
design, and systems that leverage the intrinsic characteristics
of networked communication. Clients include multinational corporations,
nonprofit organizations and the U.S. Defense Department. J.C. is
a White House special consultant to the Office of the Secretary
of Defense. Current DOD projects include the creation of a collaborative
web site for humanitarian relief and reconstruction operations,
and a collaborative interface for tactical satellite data. She has
lead several DARPA projects, most recently a computer-game derived
interface for next generation UAV's. As of September 2005, she has
been tasked to support the CIO of the newly established National
Center for Counter-Terrorism in the development of collaborative
tools and interfaces for information sharing and knowledge creation
in the intelligence community.
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