The 7th Annual Coleman Institute Conference on Cognitive Disability and Technology
In collaboration with the RERC-ACT State of the Science Conference
October 24-25, 2007
Westin Hotel, Westminster, Colorado
| Wednesday, October 24 | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 1:30 p.m. | Welcome and Remarks [ppt, 469k] David Braddock, PhD Associate Vice President, University of Colorado and Executive Director, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities |
| 1:45 p.m. | Opening Keynote Session An International Perspective Michael Stein, JD, PhD Cabell Research Professor of Law, William and Mary School of Law and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, Executive Director, Harvard Project on Disability “UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities: Overview of the UN Convention and Implications for the U.S.” Glenn Fujiura, PhD Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Disability and Human Development, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago “Cognitive Disability in the World Today” [ppt, 857k] |
| 3:30 p.m. | Poster Session Selected interdisciplinary research projects involving CU faculty, graduate students, academic and commercial partners, and exhibitors |
| 4:45 p.m. | World Wide Web Accessibility and The Digital Divide Introducer: Claudia Coleman, Coleman Institute Founding Donor Moderator: Clayton Lewis, PhD, Coleman Institute Scientist in Residence and Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder Panelists: Bill Coleman, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Cassatt, Inc. and Founding Donor, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities Teresa Moore, Arizona Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities and Self-Advocate Richard Schwerdtfeger, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Emerging Technologies Software Group Architect/Strategist; Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board; IBM Master Inventor Jim Tobias, Co-chair, Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC); Principal, Inclusive Technologies Gregg Vanderheiden, PhD, Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Director, Trace Center for R & D, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 6:00 p.m. | Reception And Continuing Poster Session |
| 7:00 p.m. | Dinner
Distinguished Dinner Speaker: Sue Swenson, Chief Executive Officer, The Arc of the United States "The Power to Decide: A Personal View" |
| Thursday, October 25 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Session Convenes: David Braddock, PhD |
| 8:45 a.m. | Technology Transfer and The Coleman Institute
Moderator: David Allen, PhD, Associate Vice President, University Of Colorado; Director, Office Of Technology Transfer. Presentation [ppt, 109k] Panelists: Daniel Abrams, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and resident in Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center; founder and CEO, Sierra Puente, Inc. Presentation [pdf, 56k] Henry Kaplan, Chairman and CEO, Mentor InterActive, Inc. Presentation [ppt, 325k] Karen Newell, PhD, Associate Professor and Markert Endowed Chair of Biology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Chief Executive and Scientific Director, CU Institute of Bioenergetics. Presentation [ppt, 699k] Regan Zane, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006 Technology Transfer Office Awardee: Inventor of the Year |
| 9:45 a.m. | Continuing Poster Session |
| 10:45 a.m. | Remarks:
Robert J. Jaeger, PhD, Program Director, Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities, National Science Foundation |
| 11:00 a.m. | Keynote Speaker
Ted Berger, PhD David Packard Chair of Engineering, Director, Center for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California “Neural Prostheses for Cognitive/memory Function” [ppt, 8618k] |
| 12:00 p.m. | Boxed Lunches, Hosted by the Coleman Institute |
| 1:00 p.m. | RERC-ACT State of the Science Conference Student Design Competition and Coleman Prizes awarded |
