The Olive Team
Olive is made up of interesting people from around the country. Learn who they are.
Yoshihisa Abe
Graduate Student
Carnegie Mellon University
- Creator of vTube, experimental version of Olive
- Developed prefetching techniques for virtual machine streaming over last-mile networks
Jan Harkes
Principal Project Scientist
Carnegie Mellon University
- Principal Project Scientist for Olive
Erika Linke
Associate Dean of University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University
- ACRL 2013 Conference Chair
- Former president of the Association of College and Research Libraries
- Member of the Board of Directors of LYRASIS, a merger of two library consortia
- Representative on the American Library Association Working Group on Libraries and Digital Content
- Expert on information discovery and literacy
Jerome McDonough
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Board Member of the Journal of Library Metadata
- NDIIPP Digital Preservation Pioneer designee
- P.I. on NDIPP grant examining the preservation of virtual worlds
- P.I. on IMLS grant continuing his research in Preserving Virtual Worlds
- Several invited talks on digital archiving and preservation
- Expert in adapting library metadata standards to executable content
- Former head of the Digital Library Team for New York University Libraries
Gloriana St. Clair
Dean Emerita of University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University
- ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year in 2009
- Director of the Million Book Project
- Advocate for Open Access
- Former Editor of College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and portal: Libraries and the Academy.
- Pioneer of digital innovations in librarianship
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Carnegie Group Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
- Principal Architect of Andrew Filesystem
- Principal Architect of Coda Filesystem
- Principal Architect of the Internet Suspend/Resume® system
- Founding Editor in Chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing
- Founding Director of Intel Research Pittsburgh
- Founding Program Chair of HotMobile
- Designer of Odyssey which handles variations in critical resource availability
- Inventor of many mobile technologies
Keith Webster
Dean Of University Libraries
Carnegie Mellon University
- Principal Investigator and Project Director, Digital Queensland
- Member of the Board of Directors, National Information Standards Organization
- Member of the Board of Directors, Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium
- Co-Principal Investigator, Researcher Operating System, Elsevier and five-university consortium
- Faculty member by courtesy, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University