I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be conducting a 30-minute live interview with Dan Clancy, engineering director for Google Book Search, at the Mark Logic User Conference in San Francisco on May 12-14, 2009.
Dan has been working on Google Book Search for approximately four years, worked directly on the Google Book Search class action settlement, has been a key spokesperson for Google in communications about the settlement (e.g., this ALA panel, this New York Times article), and is able to hold a quite a broad range of conversations about Google Book Search. For example, in a recent chat with Dan, we covered topics ranging from e-book formats, the internal XML-based representation of books that Google uses, details of the settlement, implications of the settlement, cases not covered by the settlement, and possible future scenarios for the book publishing industry.
Suffice it to say that Dan’s a fascinating guy with an extraordinarily broad knowledge of a topic critical to the future of publishing. I’m thrilled that Dan has agreed to join us and certain it will be an awesome session.
About Dan Clancy (biography lifted from here)
Daniel J. Clancy, PhD, is the Engineering Director for the Google Book Search Project. This project is working to bring off-line books content on-line and make it searchable to allow discovery of books. Google is working with both publishers and libraries as part of this project.
Prior to coming to Google in January 2005, Dr. Clancy was the Director of the Exploration Technologies Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center. The Directorate supports over 700 people performing both basic and applied research in a diverse range of technology areas intended to enable both robotic and human exploration missions. Technology areas include Intelligent Systems, High-end Computing, Human-Centered Systems, Bio/Nanotechnology, Entry Systems and others. In this role, Dr. Clancy played numerous roles at the agency level including participating in the team that developed the agency’s plan to return men to the Moon and eventually Mars.
Dr. Clancy received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in artificial intelligence. While in school, Dr. Clancy also worked at Trilogy Corporation, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Xerox Webster Research center. Dr. Clancy received a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1985 in computer science and theatre.
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