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David
Lassner
Chief Information Officer, University of Hawaii
David Lassner serves as
the University of Hawaii's first Chief Information Officer. In that capacity
he has been responsible for designing, implementing and directing a new integrated
organization to support academic computing, administrative computing, distributed
learning technologies and voice, data and video telecommunications. This unit
provides the technology support for UH-Manoa as well as addresses the statewide
needs of the university system which is comprised of 10 campuses and 5 education
centers on 6 islands.
David is a member of the University's Cooperating Graduate Faculty and has
taught, both in-person and on-line, in the UH Department of Information &
Computer Science, the College of Business Administration, the School of Communication
and the College of Education as well as at Roosevelt University. David has
been at the University of Hawaii since 1977, holding both technical and management
positions in instructional technology, computing, networking, and distance
education. Prior to that, David worked his way through the University
of Illinois as a member of courseware development teams working with the PLATO
system at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory.
David is active in a wide variety of local, national and international activities
relating to information technologies. He represents Hawaii in the Internet2
project and has been elected to chair Internet2 Applications Strategy Council
and serve on the Internet2 Board of Trustees. He was a founder of the Hawaii
Internet Exchange, Hawaii's first neutral public/private peering facility,
and is the immediate past-chair of the Hawaii Intranet Consortium which provides
Internet linkages and peering among federal and state facilities in Hawaii.
David has coordinated a number of education projects for the Internet Society
internationally and is active in EDUCAUSE, where he initiated and led several
constituent groups, chaired the nominations & elections committee and
currently serves on the national faculty of the EDUCAUSE Institute. He is
the current VP for Education&Seminars on the Executive Board of the Pacific
Telecommunications Council and is a founding Steering Committee member, current
Vice-Chair and a past-Chair of the WICHE Western Cooperative for Educational
Telecommunications, which awarded him the 2000 Richard Jonsen Award for service
to educational telecommunications. David has attracted and served as host
for a number of international technology meetings in Hawaii including INET95,
Webnet99, GOIN99, Internet2/APAN 2001, WWW2002 and EdMedia 2003. He was appointed
by the Governor and confirmed by the State Senate to serve on the Board of
Directors of Hawaii's High Technology Development Corporation.
David is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Maui High Performance Computing
Center, a $181m 10-year contract to operate and manage one of the largest
supercomputer centers in the world. He was also PI for the University's High
Performance Connections grant, through which he established the first cooperative
arrangement between a university and a federal network to bring Internet2
to a state, and was PI for the Hawaii Education and Research Network (HERN),
Hawaii's 3-yr $2.1M NSF-sponsored Networking Infrastructure for Education
demonstration project that focused on the transformation of K12 and higher
education with networking technologies. David is the author of several book
chapters, hosts a monthly television show on high technology in Hawaii, and
is regularly invited to speak on a broad range of topics locally, nationally
and internationally.
David earned his A.B. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in Economics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also earned an M.S. in
Computer Science as a University Fellow. He spent a year as a Research Fellow
at the East-West Center in Honolulu and earned a Ph.D. in Communication and
Information Sciences from the University of Hawaii.
