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Jack Powers

Director, International Informatics Institute
Editor, Pervasive.TV and HealthcareNBIC.org

See also the Informal Biography , Curriculum Silicae, Short Bio and Blogs.


1982 to Present | Director
INTERNATIONAL INFORMATICS INSTITUTE, INC.
(Formerly the GRAPHICS RESEARCH LABORATORY)

Research, education and consulting firm on media, technology, business and society.

2009 | Chairman (pro bono)
ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Public education advisory group appointed by the New York City Schools Chancellor

2005 | Editor
IN3 PERVASIVE.TV RESEARCH PROJECT
Web site, blog and executive education on the spread of video technologies outside the home

2005 to 2006 | Conference chairman
DIVCOM's HEALTH INNOVATION & CONVERGENCE SUMMIT
New conference on disruptive innovations in healthcare.

2005 to present | Editor
IN3 HEALTHCARENBIC.ORG
Conference blog on nano-, bio-, info- and cogno- medical advances.

2005 | Conference chairman
ITD GROUP's OUTSOURCE WORLD LONDON
Europe-wide conference on outsourcing and offshoring IT, HR and BP.

2004 to 2005 | Conference chairman
ROWLAND COURT's DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY + IMAGING EXPO
Launch of an all-digital photography conference and exposition.

2003 | Conference chairman
JUPITERMEDIA's ENTERPRISE IT WEEK
Information technology media company providing news, online resources and product information through more than 150 targeted web sites and 175 e-mail newsletters serving over 20 million unique users each month.

1997 to 2001 | Conference chairman
PENTON MEDIA's INTERNET WORLD
(Formerly Mecklermedia)

Internet media company with major magazine publishing, web sites and the INTERNET WORLD exhibitions and conferences

1996 to 2001 | Adjunct Professor
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
School of Continuing and Professional Studies
Department of Film, Video and Broadcasting

Courses: Introduction to Interactive Multimedia, Entertainment and the Internet.

1991 to present | Editor and Publisher
IN3.ORG
(Formerly ELECTRIC-PAGES
)
World Wide Web journal on media, technology, business and society

1995 to 1997 | Columnist
MICRO PUBLISHING NEWS
1993 to 1995 | Columnist
PRE-
1992 to 1994 | Columnist
MAGAZINE WEEK
Publishing trade magazines

1992 to 1996 | Contributing Editor
PREPRESS ASIA
ASEAN graphic arts magazine

1986 to Present | Member, past-Chairman (pro bono)
GRAPHIC ARTS INDUSTRY ADVISORY COMMISSION
ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Advisory group for graphics career and technical education

1982 to 1995 | President
INTERACTIVE FEATURES, INC.
Technology consulting and conference firm


1976 to 1982 | Vice president, business development
EXPERTYPE, INC.
Advertising typographer and systems developer

1978 to 1981 | Vice president, U.S. sales & marketing
COMPUTER COMPOSITION INTERNATIONAL
Typesetting systems manufacturer

1980 to 1982 | Vice president, general manager
EXPERTEL, INC.
On-line publishing services firm


1975 to 1976 | Director of Training
VOLT INFORMATION SCIENCES
Yellow Pages directory automation

1973 to 1975 | Founder
PHOTOCOMPOSITORS, INC.
Publications typographer

1972 to 1973 | Production manager
REVIEW PUBLISHING
Newspaper publisher


EDUCATION

ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY, New York
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, New York
BA, Social Sciences


PUBLICATIONS & VIDEO PRODUCTIONS

ELECTRONIC TECHNICAL PUBLISHING, (with D. Raker, et al), Printing Industries of America, 1983
ELECTRIC WORDS, National Composition & Prepress Association, 1984
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL IMAGING, Typographers International Association, 1985
PREPRESS 85, Interactive Features, 1985
COMPOSITION ANNUAL, National Composition & Prepress Association, 1986
COMPOSITION ’86 TV and COMPOSITION ’87 TV Daily Coverage sponsored by the National Composition & Prepress Association
LIVE FROM GERMANY: THE DRUPA 90 REPORT sponsored by Agfa Corp.


RESEARCH PAPERS AND ARTICLES

American Printer
Color Publishing
Computer Pictures
Desktop Forms Design
Electronic Publishing & Printing
Folio
Form Magazine
Forms Manufacturing
France Graphique
High Volume Printing
Journal of Forms Management
Local Area Network Magazine
Micro Publishing News
Multimedia PC World
Publish!
Publishing & Production Executive
Publishing News
PrintAction Canada
The Typographer
VAR Business


ASSOCIATION AND NON-PROFIT AFFILIATIONS

Chairman, Advisory Council for Career & Technical Education,
New York City Department of Education

Vice Chairman, Graphic Arts Education Advisory Commission, Advisory Council for
Career & Technical Education, New York City Department of Education

Advisor, City University of New York, College of Technology,
Advertising and Graphic Arts Advisory Board

Trustee, Graphic Communications Scholarship, Award and Career Advancement Foundation

Advisor, Virtual Enterprises International

Past director, National Composition & Prepress Association
Past director, NY Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group for Graphics (NY ACM SIGGRAPH)
Faculty member, Magazine Publishing Association Conferences
Faculty Member, Pratt Institute, Center for Computer Graphics in Design
Technology advisor, National Business Forms Association
Advisor, Japanese Electronic Publishing Association
Advisor, Japanese Printing Federation
Advisor, Typographers International Association
Conference Leader, Singapore Master Printers Association
Man of the Year, Printing Teachers Guild


VISITING LECTURER

Berlin DTP Congress
cross:media Hamburg
Drexel University
European Reprographics Congress
Imagerie Electronique
Interact/Paris
Internet World
Japan Electronic Publishing
Montreaux DM Congress
Norwegian Publishers Assn
Polytechnic University
Pratt Institute
Prepress Asia
Quark International Users Group
Rochester Institute of Technology
School of Visual Arts
Smithsonian Institution


SELECTED CONSULTING CLIENTS

Agfa Corp.
Apple Computer
Associated Press
Central Intelligence Agency
Children’s Television Workshop
Denstu Advertising
Editora Abril, Brazil
Federal Reserve Board
Grupo Bavaria Empresarial
IBM Europe
National Science Foundation
Salomon Brothers
St. Martin’s Press
Time, Inc.
United Stationers
Whittle Communications
John Wiley & Sons
Xerox Corp.


For more information, contact

Jack Powers, director
International Informatics Institute
405 Fourth Street
Brooklyn, New York 11215 USA
PHONE: +1 718-499-1884
EMAIL: JPowers@IN3.ORG
WEB: http://IN3.ORG/

 

 

 


GLOBAL
EXPERIENCE

Representative consulting clients from around the world

North America

Associated Press

Bantam Doubleday Dell

Central Intelligence Agency

Federal Reserve Board

McGraw-Hill

National Academy of Sciences

Salomon Brothers

Time, Inc.

South America

Editora Abril

Gruppo Bavaria Empresarial

 

Europe

IBM Europe

ICT Barcelona

Imagerie Electronique

John Wiley & Sons

 

Asia

Dentsu

Japanese Electronic Publishing Association

Toppan Printing