[slikom] Moderatorska poruka- "Champions of Change"
- From: "Gradimir Kragic" <bastono@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 07:46:43 +0200
Zdravo svima,
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vec znatno sire. Bas to mi je povod da objavim ovaj tekst. Molim da se zato
ova poruka ne komentarise. Komentare prenesite na neke druge liste koje
dozvoljavaju takvu raspravu. Nadam se da ja licno necu biti predmet te
rasprave, posebno ne one kakve sam ranije bio.
Sutra, ponedeljak 7. maja u "Bjeloj Kuci" predsjednik Sjedinjenih
Americkih Drzava" Gospodin Obama ce primiti 14 osoba sa invaliditetom koji
su svojim radom doprinijeli da polozaj osoba sa invaliditetom bude bolji.
Osobe koje su kao invalidi postigli velike rezultate u edukaciji, nauci,
ekonomiji ili uopste u drustvu.
Ono sta je zanimljivo je da ce se ovaj dogadaj moci pratiti preko
interneta uzivo. Vrijeme ovog svecanog prijema i prenos preko live
streaming je u 13:30 po istocnom americkom vremenu sto odgovara nasem
vremenu 19:30. Dogadaj se moze pratiti preko linka:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
Preporucujem da posebno obratite paznju na sledeca imena:
Sina Bahram.
Henry Wedler.
Dr. Dimitri Kanevsky.
George Kerscher.
Steve Jacobs.
Joseph Sullivan.
Ispod slijedi originalni tekst na Engleskom jeziku sa objasnjenjem za svaku
od osoba koja ce sutra biti na prijemu u bijeloj kuci kod predsjednika
Obame.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of Communications
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 7, 2012
White House Highlights STEM Innovators in the Disability Community as
"Champions of Change"
WASHINGTON, DC - On Monday, May 7th, the White House will honor 14
individuals as Champions of Change for leading the fields of science,
technology, engineering, and math for people with disabilities in
education and employment.
"STEM is vital to America's future in education and employment, so
equal access for people with disabilities is imperative, as they can
contribute to and benefit from STEM," said Kareem Dale, Special
Assistant to the President for Disability Policy. "The leaders we've
selected as Champions of Change are proving that when the playing
field is level, people with disabilities can excel in STEM, develop
new products, create scientific inventions, open successful
businesses, and contribute equally to the economic and educational
future of our country."
The Champions of Change program was created as a part of President
Obama's Winning the Future initiative. Each week, a different sector
is highlighted and groups of Champions, ranging from educators to
entrepreneurs to community leaders, are recognized for the work they
are doing to serve and strengthen their communities.
To watch this event live, visit www.whitehouse.gov/live at 1:30 pm ET
on May 7th.
The White House "Champions of Change" are:
Ralph Braun is the founder and CEO of The Braun Corporation.
Diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in 1947, he began using a
wheelchair for mobility. Determined to maintain his independence, he
engineered the world's first motorized scooter and followed with the
first accessible vehicle a few years later. The company grew
substantially over the next decades, and today, The Braun Corporation
is the worldwide leader of wheelchair accessible vehicles and
wheelchair lifts in the mobility industry. What started as a
part-time business operated from his parents' garage has grown into
an international corporation with over 800 employees. Ralph is now 71
years old and is the father of five adult children. He still lives
and runs The Braun Corporation from his hometown of Winamac, Indiana
with his wife, Melody.
Joseph Sullivan is president of Duxbury Systems, Inc., a small
company that has specialized in software for braille since its
founding in 1975, and which now employs two blind people and which
provides braille translation software for more than 130 languages
worldwide. He has also served on many braille-related committees,
including the Literary Braille and Computer Braille Committees of the
Braille Authority of North America, was chair of the technical design
subcommittee of the Unified English Braille (UEB) project of the
International Council on English Braille (ICEB), and currently serves
on the UEB Maintenance Committee of ICEB. Joe believes that braille
is the key to literacy for blind persons, that literacy is the key to
an informed citizenry, and that an informed citizenry is essential to
civilization.
University of North Texas (UNT) Biochemistry graduate student Nasrin
Taei is developing a model peptide system to investigate the effects
of mutations that cause sudden cardiac arrest in young adults. Her
model system will be used for testing potential candidate drugs that
ameliorate the structural effects of heart disease causing mutations.
Nasrin is a member of Phi Theta Kappa an international honor society.
As a STEM model, she tutored at the community college and mentored
high school students, which led to her recognition at UNT as a
Soaring Eagle. Nasrin is being honored as a Champion of Change for
her humanitarianism and contributions toward discovering a treatment
for heart disease and making a better future for people around the globe.
Maria Dolores Cimini, Ph.D. is the Assistant Director for Prevention
and Program Evaluation at the University at Albany Counseling Center
and has served as the Principal Investigator for over six million
dollars in behavioral health projects funded by the National
Institutes of Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, and the U.S. Department of Education during the past
decade. As a scientist-practitioner, Dr. Cimini has been active in
promoting access to STEM for students with disabilities, particularly
young women with disabilities, through her work with the American
Psychological Association's Women with Disabilities in STEM Education
Project for which she serves as Co-Chair and her mentoring of
students and early career scientists on a national scale. Through her
own experience as a scientist with a disability, she is helping our
nation identify and enhance facilitators and address barriers to STEM
education and career success for people with disabilities. Dr. Cimini
is being honored as a Champion of Change for her work in enhancing
access to the STEM disciplines by students with disabilities through
her research, leadership, and mentoring efforts.
As a professional and a parent, Virginia Stern has been working for
more than four decades to raise expectations of persons with
disabilities, their families, educators, and employers, especially
employers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM). Since 1977 she was a guiding force of the Project on Science,
Technology and Disability of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS). She recognized that talented students
with disabilities needed more than legislation and STEM degrees to
gain employment in their chosen fields. In 1996 Mrs. Stern and her
colleagues developed the flagship program, Entry Point!, to provide
paid internships and develop career skills in the private and public
sectors for students with disabilities in STEM. Hundreds of Entry
Point! alumni have joined and continue to advance in the STEM
workforce of the nation.
Steve Jacobs is President of IDEAL Group. Steve is dedicated to
enhancing the accessibility of STEM curriculum for students with
disabilities. Steve's company offers software that translates printed
STEM materials into digital formats for conversion into speech and
Braille. Steve's company also developed fully-accessible
STEM-enabled eBook reading software. Over the past 3-1/2 years,
Steve's company has become one of the world's largest developer of
mobile accessibility applications with five million installations in
136 countries. Steve is also working with many institutions to
tech-transfer their STEM-related work to mobile platforms. These
institutions include Smith-Kettlewell's Video Description R&D Center,
University of Oregon's Mathematics eText Research Center, and Georgia
Tech wireless RERC and sonification lab. Steve is a 1973 graduate of
Ohio State University. Steve and wife Pauline have been married for
37 years. Pauline and Steve have two daughters, Shana and Jessica,
and a granddaughter Brooke Christine... who is Steve's boss.
Rafael San Miguel began his career at NASA working on the Space
Shuttle program, and has spent the past 23 years as a scientist for
The Coca-Cola Company. He also serves as a board member of the
Atlanta Speech School, an 80-year old private institution focused on
meeting the needs of those with speech and language based
disabilities. Rafael, who has been profoundly deaf since infancy,
creates awareness about disability by focusing on ability as he
inspires young people to pursue education in science and math. Using
his unique format that presents science in an exciting way, he has
volunteered at schools both locally and in communities where he
travels by connecting with underserved schools through the volunteer
network of Points of Light. Rafael is now turning his energies toward
a call to action and creating an initiative called the U.S. Science
Project focused on inspiring individual scientists, businesses,
legislators and community leaders to scale efforts for engaging in
impact-driven volunteerism to begin to fill the science deficit in
our nation through a volunteer Science Corps.
David H. Rose, EdD, is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator
whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for
learning. In 1984, Dr. Rose co-founded CAST, a not-for-profit
research and development organization whose mission is to improve
education, for all learners, through universal design for learning
(UDL). Dr. Rose also teaches at Harvard's Graduate School of
Education where he has been on the faculty for more than 25 years. He
is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on UDL, and
the winner of awards from the Smithsonian Museum, the Tech Museum, and
others.
Christine Reich is Director of Research and Evaluation at the Museum
of Science, Boston, one of the world's largest science centers. The
Museum of Science brings science, technology, engineering, and math
to about 1.5 million visitors a year through its dynamic programs and
interactive exhibits. As Director of Research and Evaluation,
Christine oversees a department that conducts research and evaluation
studies related to various aspects of the Museum experience, but her
passion and expertise focus on researching ways to advance the
inclusion of people with disabilities in museum learning. Prior to
her current position, Christine worked as a museum educator and an
exhibit planner, specializing in the development of museums
exhibitions and programs that are inclusive of people with disabilities.
George Kerscher began his IT innovations in 1987 and coined the term
"print disabled." George is dedicated to developing technologies
that make information not only accessible, but also fully functional
in the hands of persons who are blind or who have a print disability.
He believes properly designed information systems can make all
information accessible to all people and is working to push evolving
technologies in this direction. As Secretary General of the DAISY
Consortium and President of the International Digital Publishing
Forum (IDPF), Kerscher is a recognized international leader in
document access. In addition, Kerscher is the Senior Officer of
Accessible Technology at Learning Ally in the USA. He chairs the
DAISY/NISO Standards committee, and serves on the USA National
Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) Board.
As a child in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind
in 1949, John Boyer found that contemporary scientific material in
braille was almost non-existent. John has never lost the sense of
frustration he felt when the braille resources available to him were
insufficient to satisfy his hunger for more science education. John
believes that is the motive for his life's work. He obtained a
master's degree in Computer science, with a minor in electronics
engineering at the University of Wisconsin in 1980. His first company
was a Braille publishing enterprise which served an international
client base. Abilitiessoft, Inc., his current company, creates open
source adaptive software which makes Web pages available to blind
persons through a Braille display. The current project,
BrailleBlaster, will allow the integration of text with Braille
graphics such as maps and graphs into a format accessible to blind people.
Dr. Dimitri Kanevsky is a Research staff member in the Speech and
Language Algorithms Department at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center.
Prior to joining IBM, he worked at a number of prestigious centers
for higher mathematics, including the Max Planck Institute in Germany
and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey. In
1979, he invented a multi-channel vibration based hearing aid, and
founded a company to produce and market this device. He also
developed the first uses for speech recognition as a communication
aid for deaf users over the telephone, for which he received an award
from the National Search for Computing Applications from John Hopkins
to Assist Persons with Disabilities. In 1998 Dr. Kanevsky introduced
the first remote transcription stenographic services over the
Internet, and created the ViaScribe product speech recognition
concept and system that allows automatic transcription of lectures in
real-time and the creation of multimedia notes. At IBM he has been
responsible for developing the first Russian automatic speech
recognition system, as well as key projects for embedding speech
recognition in automobiles and broadcast transcription systems. He
currently holds 152 US patents and was granted the title of Master
Inventor IBM in 2002 , 2005 and 2010. His conversational biometrics
based security patent was recognized by MIT, Technology Review
Magazine, as one of five most influential patents for 2003. His work
on Extended Baum-Welch algorithm in speech, another initiative for
embedding speech recognition in automobiles and his work on
conversational biometrics was recognized as science
accomplishment in 2002 , 2004 and 2008 by the Director of Research
at IBM . In 2005 Dimitri Kanevsky received an Honorary degree (Doctor
of Laws, honoris causa) from the University College of Cape
Breton. He was elected a member of the Word Technology Network in
2004 and was a Chairperson of IT Software Technology session at Word
Technology Network Summit 2005 in San-Francisco, Calif. He also
organized a special session on Large Scale Optimization at ICASSP
2012 in Japan.
Henry Wedler is a graduate student at the University of California,
Davis, working towards his Ph.D. in organic chemistry. Inspired by
programs offered by the National Federation of the Blind in high
school and with encouragement from professors, colleagues and others,
Henry gained the confidence to challenge and refute the mistaken
belief that STEM fields are too visual and, therefore, impractical
for blind people. Henry is not only following his own passion; he is
working hard to develop the next generation of scientists by founding
and teaching at an annual chemistry camp for blind and low-vision
high school students. Chemistry Camp demonstrates to these students,
by example and through practice, that their lack of eyesight should
not hold them back from pursuing their dreams. Henry was nominated by
Douglas Sprei of Learning Ally, a nonprofit that produces accessible
audio textbooks for blind and learning disabled students, which is an
indispensable resource that allowed him to excel in school.
Sina Bahram is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at
North Carolina State University. His field of research is Human
Computer Interaction (HCI). Sina's primary interest is the dynamic
translation of interfaces, with an emphasis on innovative
environments being used by persons with visual impairment (PWVI) to
facilitate learning, independence, and exploration. His other
research interests focus on using AI inspired techniques to solve
real-world user-centric problems. When he is not busy with his
academic pursuits, Sina enjoys staying on the bleeding edge of
technology and working with small, high-tech startup
companies. Sina's passion for his field originally stems from the
fact that he is mostly blind and uses assistive technologies such as
a screen reader to navigate computer systems and technological
devices. After experimenting in the fields of bioinformatics,
privacy policy/law, and systems security, Sina discovered that his
heart lies in helping users of all capabilities use computer systems
more effectively and efficiently. He has worked in HCI full-time ever
since.
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