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Advisory Board

Hal Abelson
Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1973. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT’s six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education. Abelson was recipient in 1992 of the Bose Award (MIT’s School of Engineering teaching award). Abelson is also the winner of the 1995 Taylor L. Booth Education Award given by IEEE Computer Society, cited for his continued contributions to the pedagogy and teaching of introductory computer science. He was also a founding director of the Free Software Foundation, and he serves as consultant to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He is co-director of the MIT-Microsoft Research Alliance in educational technology, and co-head of the MIT Council on Educational Technology. Website: swissnet.ai.mit.edu/users/hal
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Stewart Cheifet
Stewart Cheifet is the Director of Collections for the Internet Archive. In this capacity he is responsible for all movies, videos, television programs, music, lectures, radio programs, educational courseware, and software collections.Mr. Cheifet has had a long career in the field of media and technology. He pioneered the field twenty years ago when he created the award winning public television series “Computer Chronicles”. He also anchored another public television series devoted to the people, culture and business of the Internet, called “Net Café”.Cheifet was formerly a correspondent for the PBS “Nightly Business Report” covering high-tech in the Silicon Valley and the Pacific Rim. He has also worked in various capacities for ABC News and CBS News. He has served as CEO of two media companies involved in convergent technologies.He has won numerous awards for his broadcast journalism work, including twelve awards from the Computer Press Association. He wrote the foreword for the book “Tech Trending”, published by John Wiley & Sons.Cheifet is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in mathematics and psychology. He also holds a doctorate in law from Harvard University and he was a Benton Fellow in technology journalism at the University of Chicago.
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William Fisher
Professor Fisher received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is currently the Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993).
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Chen Xiaobo
Chen Xiaobo, senior editor of Xinhua News Agency, director of China Photographers Association, member of the Theory Council of the Photojournalist Society of China.
With over 20 years working experiences, Chen is regarded one of the most important editors in the field of China photojournalism by the circle of outstanding photographers. Chen started her work in the early 1990s involving writing, exhibit organization and book-editing, and she developed interests in the condition of modern visual art. Direction of her research is the cases of documentary and news photography in China.
Besides, she is one of the judges of Golden Photography Awards, which is the best award for Chinese photographers, and a lot of other national photography awards. As an academic councilor of many professional magazines, Chen organized series of exhibitions in international photography festivals in Pingyao, Lianzhou, Guilin and 798 art zones. Meanwhile, she helped lots of photographers as an editor of photography books.
She won the award for personal morality and professional skill by China Photographers Association in 2003;
She hosted a column titled “Talk with photographers” in People’s photography newspaper from 2004-2006;
She participated in the editing work of “Review of China Photography in 50 years” as the organizer and lancer for the chapter of China News Agency, Photojournalism and New Photography and Sports Photography in 2006;
As a chief editor，Chen finished the edition and publication of a series of the book “China photographers”(ten volumes in total) in 2007 ;
In 2008, Chen hosted a column called “Oral account of Xinhua” in “Photography World”. She is also the lancer of “Celebrities and photographers”in Renmin Daily Overseas Edition and the director of “Photographers and the transforming times” on CCTV.
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Fang Xingdong
Mr. Fang Xingdong graduated from Xi’an Jiao tong University with both Bachelor and Master’s degree of Engineering and then entered Tsinghua University pursuing his Doctor’s Degree.
In 1996, he set foot in Information Technology region, and since then, he focused on promoting IT Development in China. Reputed as “Network Leader in China” by Nanfang Weekend, Dr. Fang is appointed as a columnist by Computer World, PC Magazine and Sina.com up to now, he has published 15 books focusing on IT field. As the co-sponsors of “China Digital Forum” and the major scholar of “China Informalization Specialist Forum”, Dr. Fang is regarded as the most powerful critic in IT Industry of China. The comment against Microsoft’s Venus Plan and the conception of “Knowledge Hegemony in Information Era” proposed by Dr. Fang raised nationwide in China and eventually influenced the development of China’s IT Industry discussion.
In Sep.1999, as the Chairman and Chief Analyst, Dr. Fang suspended his schooling and Mr. Wang Junxiu co-established Chinalabs.com - the first professional Internet research and consultant company in China. Chinalabs.com was regarded as the best Investigation and Consultant Company in the “New Top List of China Industries of 2000” sponsored by “New Weekly”.
Dr. Fang was voted as one of the “New Top 10 Youths In China of 2000″ by united medias as “New Weekly”, Sina.com and Hunan TV. Also in 2000, Dr. Fang was reputed both as “Top 10 Youths in the IT Era” by “China Youth Dairly”, and “Top 10 People Effecting the development of Internet Industry In China” by “China Computer Weekly”.
From 2002, Dr. Fang launched Blog in China, and set up the website of “www.blogchina.com“, the most important Blog propellant and practicer in China. Nowadays Dr. Fang is devoted to the promotion of China Network Society & Culture Research Center. In May 2004, Blogchina.com renamed as Bokee.com and keeps as, the No.1Chinese Blog of the world. Dr. Fang Xingdong is the Chairman.
In June 2007, after Chinalabs.com and Blogchina.com, Dr. Fang found yiwu2.com (means yiwu+Web2.0).He is the Founder and Chairman.
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JIANG Zhipei
Commissioner of the Trial Committee and Chief Justice of the Third Civil Trial Chamber (Intellectual Property Right Trial Chamber) of the Supreme People’s Court of P.R.China, Ph. D degree of law of Renmin University of China; Senior Visiting Scholar of University of Birmingham, England, John Marshall Law School in Chicago, USA, Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.
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LIU Dianqiu
Senior consultant of China Open Resources for Education(CORE),former Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs Office,Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
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LIU Chuntian
LIU Chuntian is a professor of law and academic supervisor for LL.D candidates of Renmin University of China. He is also the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Law Research Center and the Director of the Research Center for Civil and Commercial Jurisprudence of Renmin University of China. His research interests include Chinese civil law, Chinese commercial law, intellectual property law etc. He participated in the drafting work of the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China as well as the revising work of the Trademark Law and the Anti-unfair Competition Law. Professor Liu was once appointed as the consultant of the group who drafted the Anti-unfair Competition Law and the Commercial Secrets Law.
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Jing WANG (Chair, MIT)
Professor Jing WANG received her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She taught at Duke University for sixteen years before joining the MIT FL&L faculty. She is the Head of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the founder and organizer of the MIT International Committee of Critical Policy Studies of China and a participating member of the MIT Laboratory for Branding Cultures. Professor WANG also serves as the Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons China Mainland and is currently working with Dr. Kurt Fendt to develop several international projects under the auspices of FL&L’s digital media lab Hyperstudio. While directing a digital animation project in collaboration with the Beijing Film Academy and MIT Comparative Media Studies, she is helping MIT building the infrastructure for Digital Humanities.
Professor WANG published several books and articles, among them, the award-winning The Story of Stone, High Culture Fever, and the editor of Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture (availble in Paperback from Routledge), Popular Culture and the Chinese State, China’s Avant-Garde Fiction, Cinema and Desire (with Tani Barlow). Her current research interests include branding and marketing, advertising, popular culture, and media and cultural policies, digital media and educational technology, with an area focus on the People’s Republic of China. Her new book Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2007.
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Fun-Den WANG
Dr. Fun-Den WANG is a professor Emeritus of Colorado School of Mines, Chairman of IET, Inc, Chairman and president of IET Foundation, He was also the founder of the International Water Jet Technology Association, US Water Jet Technology Association, and Research Institute of EMI. He has been aboard member or honorary board member of the above organization.His work has been widely recognized and he has received many awards, among them the superior performance awards form the US Department of Interior and Pioneer Awards from the US Water Jet Association. In China, he was also appointed honorary professor of China university of Mining and Technology, central South University of Technology and China University of Geoscience, also honorary board member of Peking University Foundation.
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WANG Xiaoming
Professor Wang Xiaoming is the Head of Cultural Studies Department of Shanghai University, and serves as the Head of Program of Cultural Studies of the university. He is also a professor of East China Normal University, Chinese Department, and is holding the position of Chair of Center Committee of Center of Research on Modern Chinese Literature of the university. His main academic direction is the studies of modern Chinese literature of the 20th Century and contemporary Chinese metropolis culture. He is currently performing academic duties as the Vice-President of Literature and Arts Theory Association of China, a Managing Director of Modern Literature Association of China, a guest professor of East China University of Politics & Law, and a Consultant of College of Film Studies of Tongji University. He is the Deputy Chief-Editor of Theoretical Studies in Literature and Arts, Shanghai, member of Editorial Committee of Traces, Cornell, member of Editorial Committee, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Routledge, and consultant and member of the Revising Committee of Encyclopedia, Britannica. Professor Wang Xiaoming has also published numerous monographs including Between Thoughts and Literature, The New Dominant Ideology in China, and Selected Works of Wang Xiaoming, and served as Chief-Editors of lots of books including Shrouding of the New Leading Ideology, Creation of Critical Sphere, etc.
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WEN Tiejun
WEN Tiejun is a Professor and academic supervisor of the School of Agriculture & Rural Development of Renmin University of China. He is also the Dean of the School and the Director of the Rural Construction Centre under it. Professor WEN is also authorized as the Government Specially Awarded Outstanding Expert by the State Council of China.
Over the past 20 years, Professor WEN has engaged in the policy studies in different central policy think tanks, and provided research and consultancy for numerous international organizations. He has visited over 30 Countries and regions for investigation and exchanges.
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XU Chao
Dr. XU, an honorary associate professor of Renmin University, is the Deputy Director of the Copyright Department, the National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China. He is also a professor of Tianjin Intellectual Property Training College, and expert consultant of the law systems of Beijing, Shanghai and Fujian. Dr. XU has participated in the work of making and revising regulations and laws, such as the Copyright Law, the Implementation Regulations of the Copyright Law and the Copyright Protection of Computer Software of the People’s Republic of China. Return to the list

Wejen CHANG
Wejen CHANG, LL.M. (Yale), S.J.D. (Harvard), a Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, specializes in Chinese jurisprudence and legal history, taught these subjects at Taiwan University, Tsinghua University, Beijing University, UCLA, Harvard, NYU and College de France, is currently finishing a book entitled Struggle for Justice in Late Imperial China and starting another entitled In Search of The WAY.
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ZHANG Xiaoxing
ZHANG Xiaoxing is the Deputy Director of the National Centre for the Construction of Cultural Information Resources. Graduated from Nanjing University, he then with the support of Ministry of Education went to study at public expense and worked for over ten years in the USA, during which he paid much attention to the research trend in the fields of the development and utilization of cultural information resources, knowledge management and the construction of digital library etc. In 2003, he assumed the curator of The National Library of China, mainly in charge of the construction of digital library. He then was also the general manager of the China Digital Library Ltd. and the Director of the National Centre for the Sharing Project of the National Cultural Information Resources. He now works in the National Centre for the Construction of Cultural Information Resources.
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