From: "Cliff Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:14:29 -0400
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Subject: Plenaries fo the Fall 2016 CNI Member Meeting
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I'm delighted to announce the plenary talks for the upcoming CNI Member 
Meeting, to be held in Washington DC December 12-13.

Due to the special presentation that will be part of the closing 
plenary, the length of our meeting has been extended slightly, and our 
closing time on Tuesday will be about 3:45 PM rather that the usual 
3:30 PM. Please note this in your travel planning; I hope it will not 
inconvenience attendees too greatly. 

Our closing plenary speaker on Tuesday afternoon will the renowned 
computer and information scientist Ben Shneiderman, a Distinguished 
University Professor at the University of Maryland. Ben has published 
many important books over the years; a particular favorite of mine is 
the 2002 book "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing 
Technologies". Most recently, Ben has been focusing on the changing 
nature of the research process itself, and what will be needed to meet 
the challenges of the present century. Last year he produced an 
absolutely wonderful book titled "The New ABCs of Research: Achieving 
Breakthrough Collaborations" which I'll simply say should be required 
reading for anyone engaged in any aspect of the research enterprise. He 
will speak to these issues in his presentation. 

Ben has also generously agreed to autograph copies of his book if you 
bring them with you. 

In addition to our closing plenary, we will have a special shorter 
briefing from Dr. Robert Kahn, the long-time president of the 
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). For most of the 
CNI community, Bob needs no introduction; he is known throughout the 
world for his central role in the creation of the Internet and as 
co-creator, with Vint Cerf, of the TCP/IP protocol. But he has made a 
vast number of other high-impact and often prescient contributions; one 
that has proved quite vital to the CNI community is his work in 
creating the Digital Object Identifier System (DOI). In fact, the DOI 
is only one part of a much broader Digital Object Architecture that Bob 
has been developing over the past several decades. In his presentation, 
which will precede Ben's plenary, he will review these developments and 
bring us up to date on this important work. Bob has been a friend of 
CNI since it's founding, and I look forward to welcoming him back to 
our meeting. 

More extensive biographies and abstracts will be available shortly on 
the CNI website. 

Also, as traditional, I will use the opening plenary in Washington to 
survey developments and emerging issues, and to highlight elements of 
our work for the 2016-2017 program year. Please bring your questions!

I look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC. We are just now working 
through the schedule of breakout sessions, but closer to the meeting 
I'll of course share the usual meeting roadmap with the list. 

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI