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Jeff Ubois
P.O. Box 8495
Berkeley, CA 94707
510/843-3733
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Press and commentary
- Thoughts on Cultural Institutions Masters of Media, Catalina Iorga,14 November 2010
- Video search still a tough nut to crack Computer World, Joab Jackson, 4 May, 2010
- Responsible Archiving Rants.org, Karl Fogel, September 24th, 2007
- Venerable Club Makes Comeback East Bay Daily News (and Contra Costa Times), Martin Snapp, May 29, 2007
- Archive This The Scoble Show, Robert Scoble, September, 2006
- TV is History SF Bay Guardian, Annalee Newitz, October 31, 2006
- Historic Hillside Club Reborn San Francisco Chronicle, Andrew Gilbert, November 18, 2005
- Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange The New Scientist, Will Knight, July 12, 2005
- A call for TV archiving Broadcast Engineering, April 12, 2005
- Identity swapping makes privacy relative USA Today, Elizabeth Weise, June 6, 2000
- The Future Of E-Mail Information Week, Gregg Keizer, December 31, 2003
- This Message Will Self-Destruct Wired News
- Fading Bits of History ABC News, July 9, 2001
Bio
Jeff Ubois is a Program Officer in the Foundation’s Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program, where he is responsible for work in New Ideas and Media. Previous to his work at MacArthur, Jeff was a consultant to archives, museums, broadcasters, and commercial organizations in the U.S. and E.U. Most recently, he has worked for Fujitsu Labs in Sunnyvale, California, the Bassetti Foundation in Milano, Italy, and the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. Prior to this, he was a staff research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, and part of the Preserving Digital Public Television Project based at Thirteen/WNET and funded by the Library of Congress. Mr. Ubois is a frequent public speaker, and primary convener of the Personal Digital Archiving conferences held at the Internet Archive. In the 1990s, he worked in the software industry, and as a journalist in Washington, Hong Kong, London, and San Francisco covering new technology.
Appendix: Some Personal Web History
- In March, 2008, ACM Interactions published Designing for Digital Archives
- In April, 2008, I spoke at about sustainability at Intelligent Television‘s symposium at the New York Public Library
- In June, 2008, I spoke at Alfred de Grazia‘s conference at the University of Chicago campus in Paris the Interesting conference in Amsterdam
- In September, 2008, I spoke at the International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFLA) and One Web Day in Copenhagen
- In November, 2008, The Bassetti Foundation published my interview with Scott Kirsner
- In December, 2008, I attended the Usability Professionals’ Association meeting in Torino, Italy, mainly for discussions about personal archives.
- In January, 2009, I attended the Smithsonian 2.0 meeting in Washington.
- In January, 2009, The Bassetti Foundation published my interview with Judith Estrin
- In February, 2009 I spoke at Audiovisual Archives in the Age of Access and Strategies for Multimedia Archives in Ghent, Belgium.
- In March, 2009, I spoke Seattle at ACRL 2009.
- In October, 2009, the American Film Institute invited me to speak about television archiving at Digital Hollywood.
- In January, 2010, the Bassetti Foundation published a collection of interviews I conducted on Innovation, Power, and Responsibility.
- In February, 2010, I chaired Personal Archiving 2010 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, a one day event about personal archives.
- In April, 2010 I organized a session about video search at WWW2010. Computer World wrote a story about it.
- In April, 2010, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC invited me in for a talk about personal archives.
- In May, 2010, the New York Times profiled some of the work in my group at Fujitsu Laboratories of America.
- In April, 2011, Alfred & Anne-Marie de Grazia and I are hosting a small colloquium about Personal Digital Archiving 2011 south of Paris.
- In February, 2011, I chaired Personal Digital Archiving 2011 at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, a two day conference about personal archives.
- In October and November, 2010 I spoke at AVA 21 in Gent, Belgium, the Economies of Open Content conference in Amsterdam, the Association of Internet Researchers in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the American Anthropological Association meeting in New Orleans.
