Plenary 1 –

John Unsworth was named dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2003. From 1993-003, he served as the first director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and as a faculty member in the English department at the University of Virginia.

From 1989-2003, he was a faculty member in the Department of English at North Carolina State University, where in 1990 he co-founded Postmodern Culture, the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities.

Founder and president of Intelligent Television. He has been a World Policy Institute Senior Fellow in media and international affairs for 12 years, and serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the World Policy Journal. Prior to Intelligent Television, Kaufman served as founder and president of TV Books, where he developed and concluded publishing deals with television networks and independent television producers, literary agents, and authors around the world.

After he sold majority interest in TV Books to Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels’s television and film company, Mr. Kaufman served as Director of Strategic Initiatives at Innodata Corporation, the world’s largest provider of digital asset services and XML solutions. He also has served as founder and executive director of PUBWATCH, a nonprofit organization supporting book industries in Eastern Europe, and director of publications at the Institute for EastWest Studies.