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A cybercast of Mr. Kahle's lecture was presented live on Wednesday,
November 20th from 10:30am-12:00noon.
  
(Above - pictures from the lecture. L-R
- Brewster Kahle gesturing, The audience, Brewster Kahle speaking)
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ABOUT THE LECTURE:
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The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within
our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive
collections, and with digital networks we can make these available
to students and scholars all over the world. The current challenge
is establishing the roles, rights, and responsibilities of our
libraries and archives in providing public access to this information.
With these roles defined, our institutions will help fulfill this
epic opportunity of our digital age.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-founder of
the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org),
has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge
for more than fifteen years.
Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing transformational
technologies for information discovery and digital libraries.
In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet’s first publishing system,
WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded
WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was
sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet
Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital
archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet
in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services
are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers.
Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence
with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Kahle helped
start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving
there as lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati:
Encounters with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected
as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996
and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995.
APPOINTMENTS:
Internet Archive 1996-present
Director, Co-Founder |
Alexa Internet 1996-2002
President, CEO, Co-Founder (sold to Amazon.com) |
National Digital Strategy Advisory Board
April 2001
The Library of Congress |
America Online 1995-1996
Internet Strategist |
Wide Area Information Servers, Inc (WAIS)
1992-1995
Founder, President (sold to AOL) |
WAIS Inventor and Project Leader 1989-1992
at Thinking Machines with Apple, Dow Jones, KPMG |
Thinking Machines 1983-1992
Scientist. Helped start company, chips, boards, architected
CPU of CM2 |
PUBLICATIONS
Kahle, B., Prelinger, R. & Jackson, M.E. “Public Access
To Digital Material” D-Lib Magazine, October 2001, Vol.
7, No. 10
Lyman, P. & Kahle, B. “Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts:
Organizing an Agenda for Action”, D-Lib Magazine, July/August
1998
Kahle, B. “Archiving the Net”, Scientific American
March 1997
PATENTS
| PAT. NO. |
Title |
| 6,282,548 |
Automatically generate and displaying metadata
as supplemental information concurrently with the web page,
there being no link between web page and metadata |
| 5,530,809 |
Router for parallel computer including arrangement
for redirecting messages |
| 5,148,547 |
Method and apparatus for interfacing bit-serial
parallel processors to a co-processor |
| 5,117,420 |
Method and apparatus for routing message packets |
| 5,050,069 |
Method and apparatus for simulating m-dimension
connection networks in and n-dimension network where m is
less than n |
| 4,984,235 |
Method and apparatus for routing message packets
and recording the roofing sequence |
| 4,870,568 |
Method for searching a database system including
parallel processors |
| 4,827,403 |
Virtual processor techniques in a SIMD multiprocessor
array |
| 4,805,173 |
Error control method and apparatus |
| 4,805,091 |
Method and apparatus for interconnecting processors
in a hyper-dimensional array |
| 4,773,038 |
Method of simulating additional processors
in a SIMD parallel processor array |
| 4,709,327 |
Parallel processor/memory circuit |
RECENT KEYNOTE TALKS
International Symposium On Web Archiving January 30, 2002
“Web Resources as Cultural Heritage”
ASIS&T, Opening Keynote November 2001
“Universal Access to Human Knowledge”
JCDL, Opening Keynote June 2001
“Public Access to Digital Material”
Association of Research Libraries May 24, 2001
“Born Digital Scholarly Resources”
Australian Library and Information Association Conference October
24, 2000
“Digital Libraries”
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