David Lassner
Vice President for Information Technology &
Chief Information Officer
University
of Hawaii
David Lassner
serves as the University of
Hawaii's first Vice President for Information Technology and 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. Under his leadership, Information Technology
Services (ITS) provides campuswide technology support for Hawaii's
flagship research university, UH-Manoa and addresses the statewide
needs of the University of Hawaii System, which provides all public
higher education in Hawaii through its 10 campuses and 5 education
centers on 6
islands.
David is also 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 support, networking, and distance education. Prior to that, David worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a student programmer on courseware development teams working with the PLATO system at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory.
David is active in a wide variety of national and international activities relating to information technologies. He serves on the Internet2 Board of Trustees and has coordinated a number of international education projects for the Internet Society. David serves on and Chairs the Board of Governors of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, and was 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 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 is active in EDUCAUSE, where he initiated and led several constituent groups, has chaired the Recognition and Nominations&Elections committees, and served for a number of years on the faculty of the EDUCAUSE and CAUDIT Management Institutes in the U.S. and Australia. David also serves on the founding Board for Kuali, the first community/open source project in higher education to address administrative information systems.
Within Hawaii,
David 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 attracted, hosted and/or chaired a number
of international technology meetings in Hawaii including INET95,
Webnet99, GOIN99,
WWW2002, EdMedia 2003 and Internet2/APAN
2001, 2004 and 2008 (Techs in Paradise).
He has served on the Board of Hawaii Public Television and 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 currently chairs the Hawaii Broadband Task Force, which was
established by the Hawaii State Legislature in 2007 to advance
broadband throughout the State.
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 and is co-PI for the Pacific Disaster Center, which applies geospatial information and analysis to foster disaster-resilient communities. 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 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 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 his Ph.D. in Communication and Information Sciences from the University of Hawaii.
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2532 Correa Rd |
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