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. Among other achievements, in his role as Chief
Information Officer David has provided institutional leadership in
developing the University's strategic plans for information technology,
for developing and advancing the institutional distance and distributed
learning program, for designing and implementing statewide networks
with
national/international connectivity, and for the selection and
implementation of major administrative information systems.
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 at Urbana-Champaign 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. David serves on the Board of the
Pacific Northwest Gigapop and is a founding Board member of the
Internet Equal Educational Access Foundation (IEEAF), which acquires
international fiber optic assets in support of education and
research. He was a founder of the Hawaii
Internet Exchange, Hawaii's first neutral public/private peering
facility, and is a 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, has served on and chaired several committees and was a member
of the national faculty of the EDUCAUSE Institute. He currently
serves on the faculty of the CAUDIT-EDUCAUSE Institute serving
Australia and New Zealand.
David serves on
the founding Board for Kuali, the first community/open source
project in higher education to address administrative information
systems. He serves on the Board of Governors of the
Pacific Telecommunications Council and is a founding Steering Committee
member and two-time Past-Chair of WICHE's Western
Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, which awarded him the
2000 Richard Jonsen Award for service to educational
telecommunications. David has attracted, hosted and/or chaired a number
of international technology meetings in Hawaii including INET95,
Webnet99, GOIN99, Internet2/APAN 2001 and 2004 (Techs in Paradise),
WWW2002, EdMedia 2003 and PTC2005. He has been
appointed by two Governors and confirmed by the State Senate to serve
on
the Board of Directors of Hawaii's High Technology Development
Corporation, where he chairs the Federal Programs Committee.
David is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Maui High Performance Computing Center, a $181m 10-year contract to operate and manage a major supercomputer center for the U.S. government. 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.
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