Keynote Speakers
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor, 55, is the President and Chair of the
Open Source Applications Foundation,
a non-profit organization he founded in 2001 to promote the development
and acceptance of high-quality application software developed and
distributed using open source methods and licenses.
He is widely known as founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980's. He has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist.
In 1990 with John Perry Barlow, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994. The EFF is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.
Mr. Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950 and attended public schools in Freeport, Long Island, where he graduated from high school in 1967. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1971 and studied psychology, linguistics, and computer science as part of an interdisciplinary major in Cybernetics. At Yale, he was very involved with the college's commercial radio station, WYBC-FM, where he served as Music Director and Program Director.
John Halamka, MD, MS
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is Chief Information Officer of the
CareGroup Health System, Associate Dean for Educational Technology
at Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Harvard
Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data
Interchange Network (NEHEN), Chief Information Officer of the
Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), and an Emergency
Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University where he received a degree in Medical Microbiology and a degree in Public Policy with a focus on technology issues. While at Stanford he served as research assistant to Dr. Edward Teller, Dr. Milton Friedman, and presidential candidate John B. Anderson. He authored three books on technology related issues and formed a software development firm, Ibis Research Labs, Inc. Additionally, he served as a columnist for Infoworld, technical editor of Computer Language Magazine and technology consultant to several startup companies.
As Chief Information Officer at CareGroup, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3000 doctors, 12000 employees and one million patients. As Associate Dean for Educational Technology at Harvard Medical School, he oversees the application of information technology tools for knowledge management, faculty/student evaluation and courseware development. As Chairman of NEHEN, he oversees the HIPAA transactions exchanged among the payors and providers in New England As Chief Information Officer of HCRI, he oversees the data management of clinical trials associated with Harvard Medical School.
