Robert Kolvoord, Board Chairman
Bob Kolvoord is a teacher and researcher. He currently teaches in the
Integrated Science and Technology program where he also directs the CISAT
Medialab, an educational technology production and research facility. For
most of the last decade, he has worked with teachers and scientists to
develop educational software and curriculum that uses computer
visualization tools to connect students and teachers to discovery in math
and science. Some of the curriculum projects he has been involved with
include HIP Physics and the award-winning Hands-on Image Processing for
Educators, and HIP Biology 1 and 2. He was a co-founder of the Center for
Image Processing in Education and currently serves as the Chair of the
Center's Board of Trustees.
Bob has a B.A. (Physics) and an M.S. (Materials Science) from the
University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (Theoretical and
Applied Mechanics) where he studied the rings of Saturn using image
processing techniques. He worked at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at
the University of Arizona, studying problems of planetary formation and
working with the University's Image Processing for Teaching project.
Tony Durando, Board Secretary/Treasurer
Tony Durando is a lawyer in private practice in Tucson, Arizona, with specialization in patent, trademark and copyright law. Through his work, Tony has gained diverse experience in corporate and business law international transactions, technology transfer and intellectual-property taxation. In addition, he benefits from a broad scientific background, based on education and industrial experience. After obtaining chemical engineering degrees from the University of Arizona and an gengineering systems degree from UCLA, Tony attended Loyola University Law School in Los Angeles, where he graduated in 1976. He worked as a research engineer for Chevron Oil Company in Los Angeles and as a lawyer for Northwest Energy Company in Salt Lake City. While at the company, Tony was primarily responsible for international technology sharing arrangements, license agreements, joint ventures, engineering contracts, and general corporate business. At the same time, he served as legal and technical support for international engineering projects. He left the company in 1984 to practice law. In 1989 Ton moved back to Tucson with his family, where he started his current private practice. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, where he teaches a law class for scientists and engineers.
Ted Sjoerdsma
Ted Sjoerdsma is a teacher. He started teaching Mathematics in Middle School at Grand Rapids, MI and progressed to become a professor of Computer Science at the University of Iowa. After six years as Chairman of the Department at Iowa City, he moved to Washington and Lee University where he started a Computer Science Department in 1984. The last two years before retirement he went to the National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE).
His keen interest in Computer Science curricula and the use of computers in enhancing other disciplines lead to many years of service as Treasurer and Board Member of the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) and its predecessor, the Conference on Computing in the Undergraduate Curricula (CCUC).
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