Leadership

Board of Advisors

Jeff Merriman currently wears two hats as Associate Director for Software Strategy for the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Initiative.

Jeff Merriman

Jeff Merriman

 

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Jeff has spent much of his career building and promoting various kind of technology infrastructure for higher education. As Director of Academic Computing at Stanford University he brought the notion of “Wired Campuses” into the forefront by networking all of Stanford’s graduate and undergraduate residence halls, leading an aggressive effort that began in 1987.

Jeff also founded the annual ResNet Symposia series. This event brings together information technologists from around the world to share implementation, support, and educational strategies pertaining to distributed, residential computing environments in higher education. In 1998 Jeff helped to form Stanford’s Academic Computing program and became Director of Academic Computing Technology. In this role he began to widen his focus to include issues of software infrastructure in support of educational initiatives.