Dr Chuck Severance
Michigan State University

Paper title
Pushing the Boundries of Innovation Through Community Source: Sakai Project

Biography
Charles is currently the Executive Director of the Sakai Project. Previously he was the Chief Architect for the Sakai Project and Sakai Foundation Board member.

Charles is the Author of the book High Performance Computing, Second Edition, published by O'Reilly and Associates. He is currenly a co-investigator on the National Science Founation National Middleware Initive grid portal project (www.ogce.org).

Charles has taught Computer Science courses at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.

Charles has developed several tools to assist in the production of multimedia web-based lectures. The tools are called the Sync-O-Matic 3000 and ClipBoard-2000.

Charles is active in television and radio as a hobby, he has co-hosted several television shows including "Nothin but Net" produced by MediaOne and a nationally televised programme called Internet:TCI. Charles appeared for over 10 years as an expert on Internet and Technology on a call-in radio programme on the local Public Radio affiliate (www.wkar.org).

Chuck's hobbies include off-road motorcycle riding and playing hockey.

Charles has a B.S., M.S., and Phd. in Computer Science from Michigan State University.