Leadership Awards 2000 Winners

Excellence in Leadership

Ira Fuchs Ira H. Fuchs
Vice President for Research in Information Technology
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Professional Background
Chief information officer of Princeton University for fifteen years, Ira Fuchs established a world-class networking environment at the university and continued to provide it with vital, innovative leadership until his move to the Mellon Foundation in July 2000. Throughout his career he has brought extraordinary creativity, intelligence, and technological expertise to the challenges of providing electronic access to people and information in support of teaching, learning, and research. Perhaps best known as the co-founder and long-time leader of the BITNET international academic networking project, Mr. Fuchs has also provided leadership to the worldwide higher education community as chairman of the board of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN), as chief scientist and board member of the Mellon Foundation's innovative JSTOR (Journal Storage) Project, and through his work to develop the European Academic and Research Network (EARN). In addition to earlier service as CIO of the City University of New York he was a founding board member of the Usenix Association and the Internet Society and has served on the boards of trustees of Educom, Princeton University Press, and Mills College, and on corporate advisory boards for Apple, IBM, and NeXT.

Mr. Fuchs has been described as having a special genius for being able to frame technical materials in intelligible economic, social, and political contexts, to reach not only technologists but librarians, professors, students, and executives. His particular ability to see the potential in rough ideas and to grasp and convey issues attending new technologies have made him an inspirational and effective leader to his staff and spokesman for his field. His efforts have made a measurable difference in the way information resources are used by the scholarly community.

Personal Web site

A $5,000 contribution is being made in the name of Mr. Fuchs and his wife, Karen, to Vassar College, for a one-time scholarship to a student majoring in computer science.

Leadership in the Profession

Jerry Neibaum Jerry Niebaum
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Services
University of Kansas

Professional Background
Jerry Niebaum has been an influential leader and motivator for both the University of Kansas and the broader professional community for more than three decades. Director of the academic computing services functions at the University of Kansas from 1981 to 1999, he has brought the mind of a mathematician and computer scientist and heart of an educator to his professional relationships and activities, mentoring with warmth and wit many of those who have worked with him. In the mid 1980s Dr. Niebaum initiated the New Directors Workshop for the annual Snowmass Seminars on Academic Computing and was the primary instructor for this event for many years. Through this involvement as well as his seminars and workshops for CAUSE, Educom, and the Association for Computing Machinery - SIGUCCS, he has helped grow a new generation of knowledgeable, committed information technology professionals for higher education.

Currently, Dr. Niebaum serves as an IT liaison to the Kansas state government for the Council of Chief Academic Officers for the six regents universities. Very influential in major midwest networking projects, he has served as principal investigator for several National Science Foundation grants, including a project for creating the "Great Plains Network for Earth Systems Science," a prototype information processing program and system to enhance the training of young researchers, and an effort that resulted in the creation of the Kansas Research and Education Network (KANREN) to connect all schools and libraries in Kansas with worldwide electronic information resources.

Personal Web Page

A $2,000 contribution is being made in Dr. Niebaum's name to the Deans Club Scholarship Fund at the University of Kansas School of Education.

David Smallen David L. Smallen
Director, Information Technology Services
Hamilton College

Professional Background
David Smallen has been a leader in the technology management profession for more than two decades, in a career characterized by a focus on partnerships and collaboration. He emerged on the national scene in the late 1970s by connecting Hamilton College to Cornell University, providing large-university computing resources to a small, residential, liberal arts college. In the early 1980s he was a leader in both the Educom Computer Literacy Initiative and the Educom Higher Education Data Sharing Project (HEDS). As a member of the CAUSE Board he championed the formation of the professional development activity that evolved into the EDUCAUSE Institute, and he currently serves as director of the Leadership Institute. In 1988, while serving on both the CAUSE and Educom Boards, he was a member of the committee that created the original "CAUSE/Educom Evaluation Guidelines for Institutional Information Technology Resources," an important step in developing benchmarks for educational institutions to use in evaluating their IT commitments. His most recent work in this arena, the COSTS project for understanding the true costs of information technology support services (with Colgate University CIO Karen Leach), has attracted the participation of over 100 institutions.

Dr. Smallen has mentored and worked cooperatively with many IT professionals over the years, especially his colleagues in the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) in which he has played a leading role. He shares his work and energies freely. His numerous professional publications, conference presentations, and on-campus consultations and accreditation visits have influenced the infusion of technology into the academic community and born witness to his rare combination of vision, reasonableness, persuasiveness, humor, and common sense.

Personal Web site

A $2,000 contribution is being made in Dr. Smallen's name to the Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Scholarship at Mohawk Valley Community College. This scholarship is awarded annually to students showing academic promise, need, and community service. It is given in memory of Steven Smallen, a multitalented young man who was an avid gardener and bird watcher and who won many awards for his biology projects and artwork. He died of leukemia at the age of 19.

Leadership in Information Technologies

Jeffrey Schiller Jeffrey I. Schiller
Network Manager
MIT

Professional Background
An internationally renowned expert on computer security and network architecture, Jeffrey Schiller has had significant influence on the development of robust, scalable, secure networks for higher education and the broader community. He has managed and served as principal designer of the MIT campus computer network since its inception in 1984, and is one of the primary forces behind the implementation of MIT's distributed computing infrastructure through Project Athena, as well as co-author of MIT's Kerberos password-based authentication system that has become the key component for secure operating environments. He is also responsible for the development and deployment of an X.509-based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) at MIT.

Among his many activities outside of MIT, Mr. Schiller is a founding member of the Steering Group of the New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet-now part of GTE Internetworking and a major nationwide Internet Service Provider), an area director for security on the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), responsible for overseeing security-related working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and a founding member of the Internet Privacy Coalition. He was responsible for releasing a U.S. legal freeware version of the popular PGP encryption program, and is currently the technical lead for the new Higher Education Certifying Authority being operated by the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). Colleagues know him as a constant experimenter with new technologies, a hands-on designer and architect who tests and explores possibilities, applies an intuitive sense of what will scale and work reliably, and is always willing to share his discoveries with others.

Personal Web site

A $2,000 contribution is being made in Mr. Schiller's name to an MIT scholarship fund.

Professional Development Professional Development Mentoring Information Kit Management and Leadership Offerings Conferences, Seminars, and Institutes Jane N. Ryland Fellowship Program EDUCAUSE Awards Higher Education IT Events Calendar Job Opportunities Volunteer Opportunities		Leadership Awards 2000 Winners Excellence in Leadership Ira H. Fuchs Vice President for Research in Information Technology The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Professional Background Chief information officer of Princeton University for fifteen years, Ira Fuchs established a world-class networking environment at the university and continued to provide it with vital, innovative leadership until his move to the Mellon Foundation in July 2000. Throughout his career he has brought extraordinary creativity, intelligence, and technological expertise to the challenges of providing electronic access to people and information in support of teaching, learning, and research. Perhaps best known as the co-founder and long-time leader of the BITNET international academic networking project, Mr. Fuchs has also provided leadership to the worldwide higher education community as chairman of the board of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN), as chief scientist and board member of the Mellon Foundation's innovative JSTOR (Journal Storage) Project, and through his work to develop the European Academic and Research Network (EARN). In addition to earlier service as CIO of the City University of New York he was a founding board member of the Usenix Association and the Internet Society and has served on the boards of trustees of Educom, Princeton University Press, and Mills College, and on corporate advisory boards for Apple, IBM, and NeXT. Mr. Fuchs has been described as having a special genius for being able to frame technical materials in intelligible economic, social, and political contexts, to reach not only technologists but librarians, professors, students, and executives. His particular ability to see the potential in rough ideas and to grasp and convey issues attending new technologies have made him an inspirational and effective leader to his staff and spokesman for his field. His efforts have made a measurable difference in the way information resources are used by the scholarly community. Personal Web site A $5,000 contribution is being made in the name of Mr. Fuchs and his wife, Karen, to Vassar College, for a one-time scholarship to a student majoring in computer science. Leadership in the Profession Jerry Niebaum Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Services University of Kansas Professional Background Jerry Niebaum has been an influential leader and motivator for both the University of Kansas and the broader professional community for more than three decades. Director of the academic computing services functions at the University of Kansas from 1981 to 1999, he has brought the mind of a mathematician and computer scientist and heart of an educator to his professional relationships and activities, mentoring with warmth and wit many of those who have worked with him. In the mid 1980s Dr. Niebaum initiated the New Directors Workshop for the annual Snowmass Seminars on Academic Computing and was the primary instructor for this event for many years. Through this involvement as well as his seminars and workshops for CAUSE, Educom, and the Association for Computing Machinery - SIGUCCS, he has helped grow a new generation of knowledgeable, committed information technology professionals for higher education. Currently, Dr. Niebaum serves as an IT liaison to the Kansas state government for the Council of Chief Academic Officers for the six regents universities. Very influential in major midwest networking projects, he has served as principal investigator for several National Science Foundation grants, including a project for creating the "Great Plains Network for Earth Systems Science," a prototype information processing program and system to enhance the training of young researchers, and an effort that resulted in the creation of the Kansas Research and Education Network (KANREN) to connect all schools and libraries in Kansas with worldwide electronic information resources. Personal Web Page A $2,000 contribution is being made in Dr. Niebaum's name to the Deans Club Scholarship Fund at the University of Kansas School of Education. David L. Smallen Director, Information Technology Services Hamilton College Professional Background David Smallen has been a leader in the technology management profession for more than two decades, in a career characterized by a focus on partnerships and collaboration. He emerged on the national scene in the late 1970s by connecting Hamilton College to Cornell University, providing large-university computing resources to a small, residential, liberal arts college. In the early 1980s he was a leader in both the Educom Computer Literacy Initiative and the Educom Higher Education Data Sharing Project (HEDS). As a member of the CAUSE Board he championed the formation of the professional development activity that evolved into the EDUCAUSE Institute, and he currently serves as director of the Leadership Institute. In 1988, while serving on both the CAUSE and Educom Boards, he was a member of the committee that created the original "CAUSE/Educom Evaluation Guidelines for Institutional Information Technology Resources," an important step in developing benchmarks for educational institutions to use in evaluating their IT commitments. His most recent work in this arena, the COSTS project for understanding the true costs of information technology support services (with Colgate University CIO Karen Leach), has attracted the participation of over 100 institutions. Dr. Smallen has mentored and worked cooperatively with many IT professionals over the years, especially his colleagues in the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) in which he has played a leading role. He shares his work and energies freely. His numerous professional publications, conference presentations, and on-campus consultations and accreditation visits have influenced the infusion of technology into the academic community and born witness to his rare combination of vision, reasonableness, persuasiveness, humor, and common sense. Personal Web site A $2,000 contribution is being made in Dr. Smallen's name to the Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Scholarship at Mohawk Valley Community College. This scholarship is awarded annually to students showing academic promise, need, and community service. It is given in memory of Steven Smallen, a multitalented young man who was an avid gardener and bird watcher and who won many awards for his biology projects and artwork. He died of leukemia at the age of 19. Leadership in Information Technologies Jeffrey I. Schiller Network Manager MIT Professional Background An internationally renowned expert on computer security and network architecture, Jeffrey Schiller has had significant influence on the development of robust, scalable, secure networks for higher education and the broader community. He has managed and served as principal designer of the MIT campus computer network since its inception in 1984, and is one of the primary forces behind the implementation of MIT's distributed computing infrastructure through Project Athena, as well as co-author of MIT's Kerberos password-based authentication system that has become the key component for secure operating environments. He is also responsible for the development and deployment of an X.509-based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) at MIT. Among his many activities outside of MIT, Mr. Schiller is a founding member of the Steering Group of the New England Academic and Research Network (NEARnet-now part of GTE Internetworking and a major nationwide Internet Service Provider), an area director for security on the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), responsible for overseeing security-related working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and a founding member of the Internet Privacy Coalition. He was responsible for releasing a U.S. legal freeware version of the popular PGP encryption program, and is currently the technical lead for the new Higher Education Certifying Authority being operated by the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). Colleagues know him as a constant experimenter with new technologies, a hands-on designer and architect who tests and explores possibilities, applies an intuitive sense of what will scale and work reliably, and is always willing to share his discoveries with others. Personal Web site A $2,000 contribution is being made in Mr. Schiller's name to an MIT scholarship fund.
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