Speaker Biographies

Steven L. Worona (Steve)
Director of Policy & Networking Programs
EDUCAUSE
Washington, DC

Steve Worona is Director of Policy and Networking Programs at EDUCAUSE, and the Founding Director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law. He is also the producer and host of “EDUCAUSE Live!”, a Webcast featuring conversations with leaders of information technology in higher education. During his 35-year career at Cornell University, Worona developed CUinfo (the first Campus-Wide Information System) and Dear Uncle Ezra (the first online counseling service). He taught courses in Cornell’s Computer Science Department and Graduate School of Management, founded Cornell’s Computer Policy and Law Program, and managed award-winning projects in electronic publishing, digital libraries, programming languages, and factory automation. He has lectured internationally on a wide range of topics, focusing most recently on the impact of technology on our social and legal system. At EDUCAUSE, he helps coordinate programs in such areas as leading-edge authentication systems, intellectual property, privacy, computer and network security, and management of the .EDU top-level Internet domain. Worona holds degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science from Cornell.



Micki Caskey
Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Graduate School of Education
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

Micki M. Caskey, associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, draws on more than 20 years of teaching inner city adolescents in middle and high schools. Her areas of specialization include middle grades education, content area literacy, action research, learning strategies and content enhancements, and teacher education.

She is president of Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), chair of National Middle School Association's (NMSA) Research Advisory Board, editor of Research in Middle Level Education Online, higher education representative to the Oregon Middle Level Association, and board member of the Portland Reading Council. Her publications include /The Young Adolescent and the Middle School, Middle Level Education Research Annual: Engaging Young Adolescent Learners, Making a Difference: Action Research in Middle Level Education/ as well as book chapters, curriculum, and journal articles.


Michael Clark
Associate Professor, Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

Michael Clark, PhD, JD, teaches technical and professional writing with additional specialization in Law and Literature, Literary Criticism, Literature and the First Amendment, and Legal Writing. During 1995-96, he taught at the University of Jordan in Amman, a period that included U.S. State Department-supported lectures in Syria and Egypt. Dr. Clark was a member of the White House staff during the Carter Administration and has taught at the University of Oregon, the University of Michigan, and Iowa State University. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton as well as a JD from the University of Oregon School of Law. His most recent work focuses on First Amendment issues and the Internet.

J.D. University of Oregon
Ph.D. State University of New York, Binghamton
M.A. State University of New York, Binghamton
B.A. Stockton State College

Barbara Sestak
Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

Barbara Sestak has over 25 years of Portland State experience including teaching, research, and administration. Prior to her role as Dean, she was the Associate Vice Provost for Sponsored Research at Portland State from 2000–2005; Chair of the Department of Architecture from 1995–98; and both Associate Dean and Interim Dean for the School of Fine and Performing Arts from 1995–1997.

Sestak is a registered architect and was in private practice before joining Portland State University in 1982. She has been president of AIA/Portland and currently serves, by appointment of the governor, on the Oregon State Board of Architect Examiners. She was a member of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Practice/Education Committee for five years and served as jury chair for the NCARB Prize for four years. As the NCARB representative, she was a member of the architectural accreditation teams to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Harvard and Cornell. Sestak holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from the University of Washington.



Andrew Black
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

Andrew Black has been a Professor at Portland State since 2004. He became interested in programming languages in 1972 when he was introduced to Algol 60. Compared to Fortran, the conceptual elegance was overwhelming. He was introduced to objects through the process of writing one of the earliest Object-Oriented distributed operating systems, the Eden System at the University of Washington. After a spell in industry, Professor Black returned to academia in 1994 when he joined the Oregon Graduate Institute as Head of their department of computer science and engineering. His research interests are in programming languages, operating systems, object-oriented systems and distributed computing, and more specifically in the region where they overlap (such as language design for distributed Object-oriented computing.)

Professor Black became interested in copyright issues when he discovered that he could not legally hand out copies of his own publications to the students in his classes. Moreover, some of his early papers were essentially unavailable: many libraries had purged their paper copies of early computer science journals, and the publishers had not made good quality electronic copies available. He now reserves the right to place a copy of everything that he publishes on his own web site.

Education
D. Phil., Computation, University of Oxford, Oxford England
B.Sc. with First Class Honours, Computing Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England