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Robert J. Ferl
Extraterrestrial Agriculture: The science and
technology of living off the face of the earth
 Robert
J. Ferl has a BA in biology from Hiram College and a PhD in
biology from Indiana University. He is a Professor in the
Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of
Florida and is also an Assistant Director of the
Biotechnology Program at the University of Florida. His
long-standing research interests involve the signal events
that regulate plant gene expression, particularly in
response to adverse and extreme environments. He has used
reporter gene technology in spaceflight experiments designed
to understand plant responses to low earth orbit and he is
currently involved in refining gene expression technologies
and developing concepts for robotic plant growth missions to
the moon and Mars.
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Craig Kvien
Improving agricultural efficiencies through
wireless Internet technologies
 Craig
Kvien is the Chair of the National Environmentally Sound
Production Agriculture Laboratory (NESPAL) which is a
multidisciplinary unit of the University of Georgia College
of Ag and Environmental Sciences focused on new technologies
which promise to aid agriculture both economically and
environmentally. One of NESPAL's programs involves the use
of wired and wireless Internet technologies to help
agriculture better monitor and control farm operations.
Craig, along with other team members will show attendees
some of the applications now in operation, as well as a look
down the road.
Craig Kvien will be joined by Vickie
Garrick and Stuart Pocknee of NESPAL.
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James Oliverio
Folding Space: Distributed Collaboration in the
Early 21st Century
 James
Oliverio is Professor of Music and Digital Media and
Director of the Digital Worlds Institute at the University
of Florida. He is internationally known as a creative
artist, educator and producer, and is a frequent keynote
speaker and consultant to digital media education programs.
His work in the cross-pollination of technology and culture
resulted in the award for "Most Creative and Courageous" use
of Internet2 at the 2001 Global SuperComputing Conference,
with subsequent profiles on CNN and the BBC. Oliverio is
also a five-time Emmy Award winning composer whose scores
have been performed by ensembles throughout the world
including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony and
the Kharkov Philharmonic. He recently served as producer of
“Hands Across the Ocean”, winner of the inaugural Peoria
Prize for Creativity in the Arts and Sciences (2005).
Oliverio has worked with cultural and research institutions
around the world to create the Digital Worlds collaborative
network. This international partnership premiered “In
Common: TIME” on special commission from ACM SIGGRAPH,
joining indigenous artists and performers in seven cities
across five continents in a real-time globally distributed
performing arts collaboration that premiered at the Los
Angeles Convention Center in August, 2005. Prior to coming
to the University of Florida in 2001, Oliverio was Associate
Professor and Composer in Residence at the Georgia Institute
of Technology in Atlanta.
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