Yoshiko Saito-Abbott, DigitalStream Founding Conference Chair, is Associate Professor of the Institute for World Languages and Cultures at California State University, Monterey Bay. She directs the Japanese language and area studies programs and offers first, third and fourth year Japanese language courses. Dr. Saito brings pedagogical expertise and her rich experience in designing technology enhanced, proficiency-oriented curriculua and language programs. She won national recognition for developing an innovative Professional Development / Credentialing Model for in-service teachers in the state of Texas. She is currently site-director of the Monterey Bay Foreign Language Project, Dr. Saito has wide rage of research activities. She has published articles in the areas of reading comprehension, teacher education, Business Japanese, and computer assisted language instruction and has delivered numerous papers at learned societies. Her recent publications on second language acquisition and Japanese language pedagogy are found in Journals such as The Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, CALICO Journal, The Journal for Language for International Business. She has also published textbooks and Japanese language teaching computer assisted language-learning programs. She conducts numerous workshops on professional development. She recently organized a state wide Technology conference entitled Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Cultures.

Thomas F. Abbott DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee, lectures in Japanese Area Studies at California State Univervity Monterey Bay where he has developed courses in Japanese Culture and Civilization, Pop-Culture, Cinema and, The Japanese Mind, Japanese Economic History, and Business, and the Japanese-American Experience. His interdisciplinary background includes economics, psychology, business administration, computer science and international management studies. He has taught in America and Japan and served for seventeen years as the Executive Director of PEACE•USA a private non-profit multinational educational exchange foundation. He has consulted with and worked in major U.S. and Japanese high tech firms including NEC, Apple Computer, and Mitsubishi Steel. He developed a multimedia simulation for Business Japanese at The University of Texas at Austin. Since 1993 he has been involved in teacher training and professional development for foreign language teachers. His publications have focused on the application of computers to language instruction. In addition to teaching, he is currently serving an executive member of the California Japanese Framework Project Steering Committee, and as Technology Director for the Monterey Bay Foreign Language Project.

John Ittelson DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee is a Professor in the Institute of Communications Science and Technology. He leads CSUMB's CalState Teach Program and Director of the IDEA Lab.
Academic Credentials Ph.D. Educational Psychology and Instructional Design Northwestern University 1978, M.A. Instructional Television Northwestern University 1976, B.S. Radio, Television, and Film Northwestern University 1971.
Previous Position, Professor, Department of Communication Design, CSU Chico. Teaching areas and research interests; multimedia, telecommunications, and instructional technology. Click here to see John's home page.

Richard Donovan is a member of the DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee and currently serves as Deputy Director of the CSU Office of Organizational Relations and Program Development and as the Special Projects Officer for CSU Monterey Bay's Office of the Provost. For the past five years with CSUMB, he has helped to develop regional public/private collaborative projects and a number of innovative partnerships to promote second language acquisition, assessment and teaching. A former Foreign Area Officer with the Department of Defense, Mr. Donovan holds a Master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. Prior to his working at CSUMB, he served as founding Associate Dean at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's School of Middle East II where Arabic and Persian languages and culture were taught.

Donaldo Urioste is the Director of the Institute for World Languages and Cultures, host of the DigitalStream Conferences and a member of the DigitalStream Conference Organizing Committee. Academic CredentialsPh.D. Spanish Language and Latin American Literature University of New Mexico 1985. M.A. Hispanic Language and Literature University of Colorado, Boulder 1974. B.A. Spanish University of Colorado, Boulder 1970 Before coming to CSUMB, he was Associate professor, in the Department of Foreign Languages at California Lutheran University
Teaching Areas and Research InterestsSpanish language, Latin American literature and culture, and Chicano literature and culture; Latin American literature and culture, Chicano literature and culture, and Chicano literature bibliography

Gus Leonard, is currently the Coordinator of the IWLC Language Laboratory at California State University, Monterey Bay. He came here after working at the CLA Language Center and teaching Swedish at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, from 1991-2000. During a hiatus from studies, 1995-1998, he taught English as a Foreign Language in Yamanashi-Ken, Japan. Gus is completing his M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language with supporting fields in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures and Instructional Technology at the University of Minnesota. His thesis topic is the support and facilitation of writing for foreign language learners in a technology-enhanced classroom. He has participated in exchange programs with Uppsala Universitet, Sweden and H>skoli íslands, Reykjav¯k, Iceland. Current projects include work on the Virtual Language Lab-Japanese project for the Strategic Language Initiative out of the CSU System ChancellorÃs Office.

Phillip Kennedy is a student assistant in the Japanese Program who has a number of editorial responsibsbilities related to the conference publications and proceedings.