2004 Judge Biographies
Robert Bishop
Elizabeth Cullingford
Andrew Dillon
Joan Huntley
Leslie Jarmon
Min Liu
Tim Rowe
Robert Bishop is Chairman and Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and the Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in Engineering. Dr. Bishop specializes in guidance, navigation and control of aerospace vehicles. He has served on the College of Engineering faculty since 1990. He has 10 years of industrial experience and has published numerous journal articles and three books. He was the recipient of the 1997 Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award, the 1997 Begeman Teaching Fellowship, the 1999 John Leland Atwood Award, and was elected to The UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2002. Dr. Bishop is also affiliated with the Center for Space Research.
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford is Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English Literature and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture, 2001; Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry,1993 and Yeats, Ireland and Fascism,1981. She is currently studying conflicting representations of nuns in Irish literature and popular culture, and also working on a feminist cultural studies project analyzing literary representations of the only child in the contexts provided by folklore, history, demography, and sociology. Her multimedia course, E316K Masterworks of British Literature, won the ITAP Gold Award last year. She likes family, food, wine and travel.
Andrew Dillon has been an active researcher of the human response to information technology for the last 15 years, graduating from University College Cork and Loughborough University of Technology before being appointed Research Fellow at the Human Sciences and Advanced Technology Research Institute in the UK. He moved to Indiana University in 1994 where, amongst other duties, he developed and served as Director of the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Informatics. He joined the University of Texas at Austin in January 2002 as Dean and Professor of the School of Information. Defying professional categorization, he has held appointments in departments or schools of cognitive science, computer science, instructional systems technology, psychology, management information system, curriculum and instruction, library and information science, and informatics. Having published more than 80 articles and books on various aspects of human information behavior, Andrew serves or has served on the editorial boards of many leading journals such as the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Interacting with Computers, the Journal of Digital Information, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. He has contributed invited entries for the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics & Human Factors and the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. He strongly advocates designing information resources and systems that work for people to augment and enhance their lives.
Joan Huntley is currently coordinator of new technologies in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, where she has worked for the past five years. She formerly directed the Stead Advanced Learning Technologies Center in the college. Prior to this she worked in the University of Iowa Information Technology Services where she held a number of positions including Group Leader, Market Analysis and Services Development, and Director, Second Look Computing. She is an author, program developer, and state- and national-level consultant, and recently served as the chair of the board of directors for the international New Media Centers. She earned her B.A. in English from National Louis University and her Ph.D. in Instructional Design from the University of Iowa.
Leslie Jarmon is best known for creating the first multimedia digital dissertation in the U.S. submitted and published only in CD-ROM format ("An Ecology of Embodied Interaction: Turn-Taking and Interactional Syntax in Face-to-Face Encounters." 1996, UT). After teaching at Indiana University in Bloomington, Dr. Jarmon returned to UT and now serves on the faculty of the Graduate Studies Professional Development Program and offers courses for all graduate students in interdisciplinary communication, community engagement, and a systematic approach to academic and professional writing. She is also Director of Executive Presence for the McCombs School of Business Plus Program. Dr. Jarmon is also part of the Strategic Team serving as liaison between UT and the World Congress on Information Technology 2006 Executive Board. She also serves as faculty for and consultant to the Science, Technology & Society Program and coordinated the 2004 Inaugural Summer Workshop for Graduate Students in Science, Technology and Society in collaboration with the WCIT 2006. Dr. Jarmon participated in IITAP Sharing What Works Awards in 2003.
Min Liu is associate professor of Instructional Technology at the College of Education. She develops and teaches graduate courses on new media design, production, and research. Her teaching and research interests focus on the impact of new media technology on learning and the design of interactive learning environments for all age groups. She is actively working with, supervising, and training students in using technology for learning. One of her projects received the 1st place in a national design competition. She was the 2nd place recipient in the first IITAP competition. Currently she is also the program coordinator and graduate advisor for the Instructional Technology Program in the College of Education.
Tim Rowe is Professor and J. Nalle Gregory Regents Professor in Geological Sciences and Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory. Dr. Rowe's primary research focuses on the evolution and development of the vertebrate skeleton. In this work, Dr. Rowe uses phylogenetic systematics to study the evolution of skeletal form as well as the evolution of skeletal development in the ontogeny of living species. This work is directed mostly at the early history of mammals and their extinct relatives among Synapsida, and on the history of birds and their extinct relatives among Dinosauria, and on other amniotes. An important tool for this research is high-resolution X-ray computed tomography, which has become a secondary research focus. This breakthrough technology permits the non-destructive inspection of internal structure in even the smallest and most delicate of vertebrate specimens. In collaborative research with scientist from many countries, Dr. Rowe is scanning and studying the anatomy of some of the world’s most significant fossils. An interest in publishing these exquisite digital datasets has also carried him into the realm of informatics. Tim maintains an active program in field paleontology that explores Mesozoic terrestrial sediments of Texas and the American Southwest.