SYMPOSIUM 2005 About

Hilda Kruger holds the degrees BA (Hons) Information Science (cum laude) and BBibl from the University of Stellenbosch. In 2005 she lectures Socio-Informatics at the Department of Information Science, University of Stellenbosch, teaching modules in corporate information management, knowledge management & knowledge dynamics, and organisation theory. She is currently completing her Masters degree in Socio-Informatics.

While previously working as an infomediary at the Information Centre of the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, she trained Associates in Management and MBA students in the use of advanced database and Internet search techniques. Her current research interests include the role of infomediaries in the network society, barriers to organisational information flows and knowledge creation, and information organisation and retrieval in the context of the emerging Semantic Web. She is a member of the Knowledge Management Practitioners Group of the Western Cape, and an associate at Knowledge Leadership Associates.

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		Professor Antony Melck was educated in law and economics at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cambridge (UK). At the same time he studied music and has been admitted as a fellow of the Trinity College of Music (London). He received a doctorate in the economics of education from the University of Stellenbosch in 1983 and an honorary doctorate from Thomas Edison State College (New Jersey, USA) in 1999. As visiting professor and fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation he spent two periods at the University of Cologne in Germany. Prof Melck was professor of economics at the University of Stellenbosch before being appointed to various senior management positions at the University of South Africa (Unisa), culminating in the position of Principal and Vice-Chancellor. In addition to membership of various public bodies, he has served two terms as a member of the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), (one of which as deputy chairman), the constitutional body that advises Parliament on the division of financial resources amongst the national, provincial and local spheres of government. Prof Melck is currently advisor to the Rector of the University of Pretoria. Presentation (82KB)
		Roy Page-Shipp, M Sc (Physics), Dip Occ Hyg., retired from the CSIR at the end of 2002 after 27 years service, having joined the National Building Research Institute of the CSIR in an R&D management role in 1975, and becoming the first Director of the Division of Building Technology in 1987. In 1992 he moved to his final role of Director: Strategy Support at CSIR, undertaking a range of assignments including Secondment to the RDP Office in President Mandela’s Office to create the Programme Management Service (1994/5) Strategic and Scenario Planning Refocusing of the CSIR’s Information Services Knowledge Management Champion. He has been a part-time lecturer in Information and Knowledge Management at GIBS since 2001 and led the SARIS project in 2004. He undertakes assignments relating to Knowledge Management, Decision Support and Strategic and Scenario Planning for a variety of organisations. Presentation
		Prof Julian Smith: Qualifications: B.A., STD., B.A. HONS., M.A., D.LITT. (All conferred at UWC). Papers and essays: Theatre, Popular Culture, Literary Theory, Higher Education Policy, Higher Education Management (including human resources management). International conferences: Presentations at and/or attendance of conferences in the USA, Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland, The Zcech Republic, Spain, Egypt, Zimbabwe and New Zealand. Employment history: 1976 - 1981: Teacher at senior secondary schools; 1982-1990: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Department of Afrikaans, University of the Western Cape; 1991 - Feb 2000: Registrar, UWC; March 2000 — present : Vice-Rector (Operations), University of Stellenbosch. Directorships: Casidra, Sabinet Online, National Library of South Africa. Presentation
		Lourens du Plessis has long been involved in issues of library services and information provision, as well as topical questions such as quality assurance. He is an accounting student, but has made sojourns in journalism (working for a major South African newspaper), and student leadership structures. He served as the chairperson of the Academic Affairs Council in 2004, and was therefore member of the University Library Committee, Academic Planning Committee, Senate and the Students’ Representative Council. During 2005, he was chairperson of the SRC, again serving, among others, on the DVC (Teaching)’s Management Team, Senate and Council. Presentation
		Hilda Kruger holds the degrees BA (Hons) Information Science (cum laude) and BBibl from the University of Stellenbosch. In 2005 she lectures Socio-Informatics at the Department of Information Science, University of Stellenbosch, teaching modules in corporate information management, knowledge management & knowledge dynamics, and organisation theory. She is currently completing her Masters degree in Socio-Informatics. While previously working as an infomediary at the Information Centre of the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, she trained Associates in Management and MBA students in the use of advanced database and Internet search techniques. Her current research interests include the role of infomediaries in the network society, barriers to organisational information flows and knowledge creation, and information organisation and retrieval in the context of the emerging Semantic Web. She is a member of the Knowledge Management Practitioners Group of the Western Cape, and an associate at Knowledge Leadership Associates. Presentation
		Chris Aldrich has in-depth experience in process systems technology, particularly with regard to machine learning in process engineering. Apart from his practical experience in data mining and advanced process modelling and control systems, he has published widely in the chemical engineering literature and is the author of Exploratory Analysis of Metallurgical Process Data with Neural Networks and Related Methods, published Elsevier Science’s Process Metallurgy Series in 2002 (See www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444503129). He has extensive consulting experience with major international companies in the mining and chemical industries, including BHP Billiton, Anglo American, Anglo Platinum, Impala Platinum, Richards Bay Minerals and Sasol. His general area of professional experience is related to exploratory analysis of large data bases in the process industries, multivariate statistical process control, optimization, development of smart sensors, response surface methodology, nonlinear system identification and advanced process control. His specific industry experience include water treatment, mineral processing, iron and steel, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, paper and pulp, petrochemical, automotive and the aerospace industries. He has received among other the following awards, honors and grants, mostly based on his research and development in data mining in the process industries: British Association (S2A3) Silver Medal (2000); President’s Award of the Foundation of Research and Development (FRD) in South Africa for international recognition of research (1995); Listed in the 19th, 20th and 21st editions of Marquis’s Who’s Who of the World, (2002-2004), as well as the forthcoming 6th edition of Who’s Who in American Education, (2004-2006), Marquis Who’s Who, 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, NJ 07974, USA (www.marquiswhoswho.com). Listed in 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (2002-2003) by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Listed in 500 Leaders of Influence, 10ed, (2002) by the American Biographical Institute, Inc., NC, USA. Qualifications: Ph.D. in Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1993; M. Eng. (Metallurgical Engineering) University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1986; B. Eng. (Chemical Engineering)University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1982. Current Position(s): Professor of Process Engineering and Director of the Centre for Process Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa; Director (founded 1996): Aldrich Consultants CC (founded 1996 - data mining consulting and industrial short courses); Director: Datacube Technologies CC (founded 1999 - development of analytical software). Presentation
		Kurt de Belder, MA MLIS, is the 25th University Librarian of Leiden University. Famed for its unique special collections and its role as a cultural centre that gave direction to the development and spread of knowledge during the Enlightenment, the University Library, founded in 1575, is the oldest in the Netherlands. Kurt’s responsibilities include university-wide strategic planning and policy making in the area of scientific information provision and the integral management of the University Library. Kurt enjoys a broad and international library experience at a number of prominent universities including Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, New York University and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has gained solid experience with regard to the implementation, improvement and innovation of work processes in research libraries. His main area of expertise is digital libraries, scholarly communication, e-publishing and e-learning. He has served as keynote speaker and has presented papers at conferences in the United States and Europe on a broad variety of topics. Kurt has also contributed to the library profession by serving on a variety of professional committees in the United States and the Netherlands. Kurt has been a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, a Queen Beatrix Scholar and was elected to the International Library Honor Society. He is also a member of the Governing Board of the Society for Dutch Literature. Kurt de Belder studied Germanic Philology (summa cum laude) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and specialized in Comparative Literature and in Library and Information Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Presentation
		Derek Law is the Librarian and Head of Information Resources Directorate at the University of Strathclyde, as well as Professor in the Department of Computing and Head of the Centre for Digital Library Research. Derek Law has been described as the "father of the electronic library in the UK" and played a substantial role in developing new models and structures that shaped and transformed the management of information within universities. http://www.mis.strath.ac.uk/staff/IRDDerek.htm Presentation
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