2008 Internet2 Board of Trustees Elections

This year, Internet2 will hold an election for the Board of Trustees. The election is being held February 11-22, with results announced the week of March 10.

Candidate bios can be viewed by clicking on their name.

CIO Representative : James Bottum

Chief Information Officer and Vice Provost for Computing and Information Technology
Clemson University

James R. “Jim” Bottum was named Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer for Computing and Information Technology at Clemson University, effective July 17, 2006.
Mr. Bottum leads Clemson’s efforts to build a state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure for education, research and service. In his first year on the job, he was able to bring Clemson into the Top 100 supercomputing sites in the world and link Clemson to the national research infrastructure through a privately gifted optical fiber network, CLight.
Before coming to Clemson University, Mr. Bottum was Purdue University's first Chief Information Officer (CIO) beginning in August of 2001.  His leadership at Purdue was recognized in a 2005 report by the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research in the case study, A New Model for Supporting Research at Purdue University, and also in Newsweek as well as a cover story in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Before arriving at Purdue, Mr. Bottum was Executive Director for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He serves on number of national committees including the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, NSF’s GPRA Advisory Committee and the Internet 2 Applications, Middleware and Services Advisory Council.  

In December 2006, Mr. Bottum was selected as one of Computerworld Magazine’s 100 Premier IT Leaders for 2007.  He was one of a small number of academic CIO’s in the list of mostly private sector IT leaders.

CIO Representative : James Hilton

Vice President and Chief Information Officer
University of Virginia

James Hilton is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia where he is responsible for planning and coordinating academic and administrative information technology, voice communications, and network operations on a university-wide basis. He is an advocate of strong collaboration between academic and technology cultures in university environments. He is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Hilton was the Associate Provost for Academic Information and Instructional Technology Affairs and a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Institute for Social Research and in the Psychology Department where he served as the Chair of Undergraduate Studies between 1991 and 2000. He is a three-time recipient of the LS&A Excellence in Education award, has been named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (1997-2006), and received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award. He has published extensively in the areas of information technology policy, person perception, stereotypes, and the psychology of suspicion. Mr. Hilton received a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Texas in 1981 and a Ph.D. from the social psychology program at Princeton University in 1985.

Network Researcher Representative: Larry L. Peterson

Chair, Department of Computer Science
Princeton University

Larry Peterson is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science. He is also Department Chair and Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab Consortium. Peterson is co-author of the best selling networking textbook Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (4e),* and chaired the initial planning efforts that led to NSF's GENI Initiative. His research focuses on the design and implementation of networked systems. Some of his recent projects and papers can be found here.

Professor Peterson recently served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, he has been on the Editorial Board for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the IEEE Journal on Select Areas in Communication, and he has served as program chair for SOSP, NSDI, and HotNets. Peterson is a Fellow of the ACM. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1985.

Discipline Researcher Representative: Edward Siedel

Director, Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University

Edward Seidel is a physicist recognized worldwide for his work on numerical relativity and black holes, as well as in high-performance and grid computing. In 2003, LSU recruited Seidel to lead its investment in the Governor's Information Technology Initiative, and he became director of LSU's newly formed Center for Computation & Technology. Seidel also is the Floating Point Systems Professor in LSU's Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science. In addition to leading the CCT, he helped initiate, and is presently the chief scientist for, the $40M Louisiana Optical Network Initiative.

Seidel earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in relativistic astrophysics. Prior to becoming CCT director, Seidel was a professor at the Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute, or AEI) in Germany from 1996-2003. There, Seidel founded and led AEI's numerical relativity and e-science groups, which became leading forces worldwide in solving Einstein's equations using large-scale computers, and in distributed and grid computing. He still maintains a strong affiliation with AEI. LSU and the AEI numerical relativity and computational science groups still work very closely together.

He also was a senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and associate professor in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Industry Representative: Michael R. Nelson

Visiting Professor, Internet Studies
Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology Program

Mike Nelson is currently Visiting Professor of Internet Studies in Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology Program. Since January, he has been doing research and teaching courses on "The Future of the Internet" and Internet governance.

Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Nelson was Director of Internet Technology and Strategy at IBM, where he managed a team helping define and implement IBM's Next Generation Internet strategy. His group worked with university researchers on NGi technology, shaped standards for the NGi, and communicated IBM's vision of NGi and the future of computing to customers, policy makers, the press, and the general public. He worked closely with governments around the world on next generation Internet technologies and applications. In 2003 Nelson was selected as the Internet Society's Vice President for Public Policy. In that role, he attended the UN's World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2003 and has been very involved in the second phase of WSIS in Tunis in November, 2005, and the recently-completed Internet Governance Forum. He is serving on the Applications, Middleware, and Services Advisory Council of the Internet2 university consortium. In February, 2008, he became the chairman of the Information, Computing, and Communication Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Prior to joining IBM in July, 1998, Nelson was Director for Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission. There he helped craft policies to foster electronic commerce, spur development and deployment of new technologies, and improve the reliability and security of the nation's telecommunications networks.

Before joining the FCC in January, 1997, Nelson was Special Assistant for Information Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked with Vice President Al Gore on telecommunications policy, information technology, encryption and online privacy, electronic commerce, and information policy.

Nelson has a B.S. in geology from Caltech, and a Ph.D. in geophysics from MIT.

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