General Sessions

• Opening Session: A Wiki Wiki What?
  Jimmy Wales   Wikipedia
  Imagine a world in which the vast repository of human knowledge is accessible to all! Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, and the list goes on. Hear Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikimedia Foundation, describe his efforts to develop and maintain...   more?

• Friday General Session: The Power to Know You're Making a Difference: Embracing Insight Initiatives
  Mark Milliron   The University of Texas at Austin
  Services like Amazon.com, TiVo, and online banking have driven the expectation that technology will be thoughtfully used to better enable teaching and learning, student services, and institutional management. Moreover, they have driven the expectation...   more?

• Closing Session: Under the Sea: Science in Real Time via the Internet
  John Delaney   University of Washington
  The NEPTUNE project will provide a regional cabled observatory of 25 experimental sites in the northeast Pacific Ocean. It will enable regional-scale, long-term, real-time observations and experiments with the ocean, seafloor, and sub-seafloor. Because...   more?