ALCTS President's Program: The Future of the Internet and the 'Cloud of Things'
Monday, June 27, 2016
10:30-12:00
Orange County Convention Center, Rm. W304 A-D
Dr. Michael R. Nelson is the featured speaker at the ALCTS President's Program at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando. As new tools and business models emerge over the next decade, cloud technology combined with broadband wireless, sensors, Big Data and machine learning will transform how we interact with information and will fundamentally change the way we interact with the world and each other.
Please join us for this intriguing President's Program that will examine principles (open standards, the free flow of information, transparency and empowering users) which will allow these impending technology changes to benefit people around the globe. Join ALCTS President Norm Medeiros, Haverford College, and ALCTS President's Program Chair October Ivins, Ivins eContent Solutions, for this exploration of future developments and consideration of how they may impact library services and programs.
Dr. Nelson works on Internet-related global public policy issues for CloudFlare, a startup that has improved the performance and security of more than 2 million websites. Prior to joining CloudFlare , he was a principal technology policy strategist in Microsoft's Technology Policy Group, a senior Technology and Telecommunications Analyst with Bloomberg Government and director of Internet technology and strategy at IBM.
Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Nelson was director for technology policy at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped craft policies to foster electronic commerce and spur development and deployment of new technologies. Before that Dr. Nelson was the special assistant for information technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. There he worked with Vice President Gore and the President's science advisor on issues relating to the Global Information Infrastructure, including telecommunications policy, information technology, encryption, electronic commerce and information policy.
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ALCTS is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging, metadata, collection management, preservation, electronic and continuing resources. ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association. ALCTS thanks Elsevier for its generous sponsorship of this program.
For more information, please see the full press release
http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/ac/2016/programs
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Contact: Amira Aaron, Associate Dean, Scholarly Resources, Northeastern University Libraries, a.aaron_at_northeastern.edu<mailto:a.aaron_at_northeastern.edu>
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