President George W. Bush has appointed Eli
Noam, professor of economics and finance at the School
and director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
(CITI), and Judith L. Klavans, director of
Columbia’s Center of Research on Information Access (CRIA) to
the President’s Information and Technology Advisory Committee
(PITAC). Noam and Klavans are among 25 nominees representing
the leading information technology experts in both industry
and academia.
As members of the committee, Noam and Klavans will provide
the president with expert, independent advice on advanced information
technologies and national information technology infrastructure
such as high performance computing, large-scale networking and
high assurance software and systems design.
PITAC was established by executive order to help guide the
government’s efforts to accelerate the development and
adoption of information technologies vital to American prosperity
in the 21st century.
Noam is the director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information,
a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management and
policy issues in telecommunications, computing and electronic mass
media. In addition to leading CITI’s research activities, Noam
initiated the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications and Information at the Business School and the Virtual Institute of Information, an independent, Web-based research facility.
Klavans is the director of the Center for Research on Information Access,
an interdisciplinary research unit of the University Libraries, whose
goal is to develop creative technological solutions for dealing with
the serious problems of growing amounts of digital data.
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President Bush Appoints Eli Noam and Judith Klavans
President George W. Bush has appointed Eli
Noam, professor of economics and finance at the School
and director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
(CITI), and Judith L. Klavans, director of
Columbia’s Center of Research on Information Access (CRIA) to
the President’s Information and Technology Advisory Committee
(PITAC). Noam and Klavans are among 25 nominees representing
the leading information technology experts in both industry
and academia.