President Bush Appoints Eli Noam and Judith Klavans
President George W. Bush has appointed Eli
Noam, professor of economics and finance at the School
and director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
(CITI), and Judith L. Klavans, director of
Columbia’s Center of Research on Information Access (CRIA) to
the President’s Information and Technology Advisory Committee
(PITAC). Noam and Klavans are among 25 nominees representing
the leading information technology experts in both industry
and academia.
Columbia Professor Joins Independent Commission Proposing Immediate Ocean Conservation Reforms
Geoffrey Heal,
the Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility
at Columbia Business School, joined an esteemed panel of scientists,
business leaders and senior elected officials, including Governor George Pataki of New York, to critically evaluate U.S. conservation laws and policies. The group, the Pew Oceans Commission, has since issued a landmark report that calls for immediate action to restore ocean wildlife and protect ocean ecosystems.