Debra Saunders writes a piece for the San Francisco Chronicle - 'Let Judy be Judith,' about Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean, Howard Dean's wife. Judith is certainly 'notable' as she endeavors to lead an honest, dedicated life as a mother, physician, and wife.
Debra writes:
"...it was appealing that Howard Dean spared his wife from the ordeals of the campaign. For one thing, the fact that Dean married a politico-phobe -- she only attended two of four inaugural balls when he was Vermont's governor -- was proof he hadn't intended to run for the White House since childhood. Mrs. D's absence also showed that her husband respected his wife for who she is. It spoke well of the marriage that he didn't try to change her.
In fact, the nicest thing Howard Dean said through this whole messy race was: "Her goal is to be a good doctor and a good mom, and I think that is a pretty good goal. I do not intend to drag her around because I think I need her as a prop on the campaign trail."
Until Dean used Steinberg as a prop Sunday, there was reason to believe that there were things Howard Dean would not stoop to in order to win the election...'
Today I google searched - judith series,
And found there in my early morning haste,
Judith Tarr - in answer to my queries,
And Judith Merril gone, but not erased.
Both Tarr and Merril have a SciFi bend,
And then I found my searching brought me to,
Judith Raskin whose voice did certain lend,
a brave note to the 'opera,' tis true.
Now Judith Powell will help improve your life,
While Judith Frediani reads for you,
And Judith Blankman helps allay the strife,
That's caused by hunger, with her art so true.
So dance with Judith Marcuse near the 'fire',
While Judith Turner 'snaps' Times Square's desire.
©2003 judith meskill
this sonnet was inspired by a google search for the words 'judith series' sans quotation marks.
in weaving the first eight judiths from this search into this year end collage to mark the end of 2003 - it was 'kismet' (and google rank) that had me end with 'judith turner,' a photographer, and recorder of 'times square' events.
i wish a safe and happy new year to you all, my gentle readers!
...Professor Judith Bishop joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pretoria in 1991 from University of Southampton after twelve years at the University of the Witwatersrand. She received a PhD on Code Generation and Structured Architectures from University of Southampton (1977). Dr. Bishop had sabbaticals at University of Cambridge (1980), University of Southampton(1986), the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh (1994/5) and the University of Victoria (1999).
Judith Bishop's research interests are programming languages and distributed systems. Since the 1970s, she has worked on computer architecture, languages and operating systems, going through the days of Pascal, occam, Ada, Stack Machines, RISC machines, UNIX and specialised configurations systems such as Darwin. For the past seven years she has worked with Java, and now have a Microsoft Rotor Project based on C#.
Professor Bishop is a Mac fan and has used Apples since the early 1980s. She currently has three - a Powerbook, and two iMacs and is drooling for a new flat screen iMac. She also has two Wintels round and about ...
Dr. Bishop has published over 50 journal articles and international conference papers as well as thirteen books translated into six languages, including the best selling series of books, Java Gently. She guided many students and colleagues to present good papers and degrees.
Judith is the principal grant holder for the Polelo Project which is funded by the National Research Foundation and the SA-German cooperation agreement, a DTI THRIP grantholder with local company, Jay van Zyl, and Microsoft.
Dr. Bishop is the SA Representative on IFIP TC-2 and convenor of the awards committee. Immediate past Chairman of IFIP Working Group 2.4 (Software Implementation Technology), and a past chairman of the SA Computer Lecturers Association (SACLA).
She is the editor of IEE Software and on the editorial board of the South African Computer Journal, and has organised many successful conferences, workshops and courses...
"...what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith..." --Virginia Woolf
While this is not one of my traditional honorable mentions of a notable 'individual' Judith, I felt that I would honor the individuality of the 'Judith Shakespeare Company' as 'Shakespeare's wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith'...
...Judith Shakespeare Company, founded in 1995, is committed to bringing Shakespeare's language to life with clarity and vitality, while expanding the presence of women in classical theatre. JSC's 2003-04 Season will also feature the long-awaited full production of Richard 3, which crowns the company's recent three-season presentation of Shakespeare's History Cycle. In this series of eight plays, which follow the struggles for the English crown for over 100 years, all monarchs and contenders to the throne have been played by women. 2001's production of The Tempest featured Jane Titus in the role of Prospero. The full production followed The Tempest Project: an experiment in non-traditional casting, which gave five directors the opportunity to explore the play through the dynamics of non-traditional casting, and gave audiences the opportunity to respond. In 2000 JSC sponsored two panels, Expanding the Presence of Women in Shakespeare Performance and Expanding the Presence of Women Directors, both featuring prominent women theatre artists in conversation about women's current status and possibilities in the business and the artform...
...Dr. Judith Tsouvalis is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (B.Sc. (Hons.) Geography) and the University of Oxford (D.Phil). She worked for a number of years in the Department of Geography at the University of Nottingham, before returning to Oxford as a lecturer in 1999.
Dr. Tsouvalis is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society with the Institute of British Geographers, and at the School of Geography & the Environment is involved in the Social Stability and Exclusion research group and the Historical Geography research group.
Research Interests
Summary - Philosophy, social theory, processes of reality and identity construction, issues of social integration and exclusion, relationship between cognitive and experiential understanding, knowledge-construction, forestry, farming.
Dr. Judith Tsouvalis is broadly interested in philosophy and social theory, and the ways in which conceptual and experiential knowledge and understandings of the 'world' interrelate. She is particularly interested in processes of reality and identity construction, and issues of social integration and exclusion, both of which she has explored in the context of forestry and farming in Britain...
Judith Ortiz Cofer is the author of Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer, a collection of essays, of a novel, The Line of the Sun, of Silent Dancing, a collection of essays and poetry, of two books of poetry, Terms of Survival and Reaching for the Mainland, and of The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Glamour and other journals. Her work has been included in numerous textbooks and anthologies including: Best American Essays 1991, The Norton Book of Women's Lives, The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, The Pushcart Prize, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.
A PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation in non-fiction was awarded to her for Silent Dancing, also the Anisfield Wolf Book Award for The Latin Deli, and her work has been selected for the Syndicated Fiction Project. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Witter Bynner Foundation for poetry. A collection of short stories, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, was named a Best Book of the Year, 1995-96 by the American Library Association. It was awarded the first Pura Belpre medal by REFORMA of ALA in 1996. La linea del sol, the Spanish translation by Elena Olazagasti-Segovia of The Line of the Sun, was published in 1997 by the University of Puerto Rico Press. In 1998, The Year of Our Revolution: New and Selected Stories and Poems was awarded a Paterson Book Prize by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. The Spanish translation by Elena Olazagasti-Segovia of Silent Dancing, Bailando en silencio was published by Arte Publico Press in 1998.
She is the 1998 recipient of the Christ-Janner Award in Creative Research from the University of Georgia. The Rockerfeller Foundation awarded her a residency at the Bellagio, Italy Conference Center in 1999. During spring 2001, she was Vanderbilt University's Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer in Residence. Judith Ortiz Cofer is the Franklin Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
Judith Kelman has published thirteen books, is the recipient of the 2002 Mary Higgins Clark Award, and her articles and essays have appeared in Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal, McCalls, Bride's, Seventeen, WorkingMother, Glamour, Publishers Weekly and The New York Times among others.
Judith has an online Writers' Room - recipient of the Page One Award for Literary Contribution - where she addresses the queries and quandaries of aspiring writers.
Since 1979, Judith Shatin has been based at the University of Virginia, where she is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music. Educated at Douglass College she also holds degrees from The Juilliard School (MM) and Princeton University (Ph.D), where she studied with Milton Babbitt and J.K. Randall. Additional studies included two summers as a Crofts composition fellow at Tanglewood.
Ms. Shatin's music has been performed by such ensembles as the Denver, Houston, Minnesota, National and Richmond Symphonies; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ciompi Quartet and the New Performance Group of Seattle. Her 1492 for piano and percussion was presented at the Moscow Autumn Festival, and at the West Cork Festival. Her awards include four NEA Composer Fellowships, as well as those from the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Her music has also been commissioned by such groups as the Barlow Foundation, Monticello Trio, National Symphony, Virginia Chamber Orchestra, and the Women's Philharmonic. A two-year retrospective of her music in Shepherdstown, WV, was supported by the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Arts Partners Program (1992-94). This project culminated in the premiere of her folk oratorio, COAL. Scored for chorus, Appalachian ensemble, electronic playback and synthesizer, with her own libretto, it reflects her efforts to musically touch an entire way of life.
...Transforming the face of psychiatry, Dr. Judith Orloff asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal - and prevent - illness. Yet intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care.
In response, Dr. Orloff advocates "a democracy of healing," wherein every aspect of our being is granted a vote in the search for total health. It is our birthright, both as health-care givers and health-care recipients, to reclaim our intuition, restore it to full standing in the medical realm and thereby carry medicine into the future. The field of medical intuition will also be an integral part of that future.
Dr. Orloff is accomplishing for psychiatry what physicians like Larry Dossey and Dean Ornish have done for mainstream medicine - she is proving that the links between physical health, mental well-being, and spiritual connectedness cannot be ignored. Affirming that intuition is the bond between these seemingly disparate areas of our lives, Dr. Orloff presents workshops and lectures at medical schools, hospitals, alternative health-care forums, and mainstream and experimental educational institutions - venues where she can offer hands-on, workable intuitive tools to medical practitioners, patients, everyday people.
In her work as a board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Orloff exhibits great courage in drawing upon her own intuitive abilities, evident to her since childhood. Her struggles acknowledging and then finally embracing her gift of heightened intuition are chronicled in Second Sight (Warner Books). Her second book, Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness (Times Books) explores the impact of her ideas in over fifteen years of psychiatric practice and by discussing patient profiles, she shows how breakthroughs are accomplished by awakening intuition: how intuition can heal our body, emotions, and sexuality, as well as helping us accept the transition from life to death. Her latest book Positive Energy takes a probing look at the inter-relationship between subtle energy, intuition, health, and behavior.
Dr. Orloff begins lectures and workshops by creating a bond of warmth, trust and intimacy with participants, within which they can hear and explore her ideas. Her sincerity, humor, and joy bring everyone in the audience with her - leaving everyone certain of their own intuitive abilities, as well as Dr. Orloff's contributions to a radically new kind of medicine...
Judith L. Klavans is Director of the Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University, which is responsible for linking theoretical computer science research with operational applications such as digital libraries and digital government. She is a principal investigator in several large projects, including the NSF-funded PERSIVAL medical digital library, the NSF and BLS supported Digital Government Research Center joint with University of Southern California-ISI, the DARPA-funded TIDES multilingual summarization project, and, most recently, the Mellon-supported CLiMB (Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building) project which links text and image collections.
Klavans focuses her research on computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). She is currently working on ways to analyze both monolingual and multilingual texts and to link meaningful segments via semantic nets and syntactic structure. She has worked on linguistic and statistical methods for extracting and linking information from large online texts. Klavans has developed a novel method of text mining to use automatic methods for the extraction of glossaries from text. She has also developed a web-crawler for the identification of glossaries from large government websites.
celebrate her life
"go at throttle up" they said
her spirit lives on
haitech haiku™
©2003 judith meskill
...Upon graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, Judith A. Resnik (Ph.D.) was employed by RCA located in Moorestown, New Jersey; and in 1971, she transferred to RCA in Springfield, Virginia...
Dr. Resnik was a biomedical engineer and staff fellow in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1974 to 1977...
Immediately preceding her selection by NASA in 1978, she was a senior systems engineer in product development with Xerox Corporation at El Segundo, California...
Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978, she completed a 1-year training and evaluation period in August 1979...
Dr. Resnik first flew as a mission specialist on STS 41-D which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984...This was the maiden flight of the orbiter Discovery...
Dr. Resnik was a mission specialist on STS 51-L which was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 11:38:00 EST on January 28, 1986... The STS 51-L crew died on January 28, 1986 when Challenger exploded after launch...
The Texas State Senate: Senator Judith Zaffirini
...The only senator with career-long 100 percent attendance and 100 percent voting records, Sen. Zaffirini has cast more than 29,000 consecutive votes during nine regular and 13 special sessions. She has sponsored and passed 457 bills and 45 substantive resolutions and co-sponsored and passed another 208 bills. Her legislative successes include passing bills to reduce paperwork for teachers; provide zero-interest loans for college students and forgiving them if they maintain and graduate timely with a B average; immunize all Texas children; reform Medicaid and simplify eligibility; facilitate independent living for persons with disabilities; suspend the licenses of drunk drivers; promote dual language programs; keep radioactive waste out of SD 21; stop the proliferation of colonias; restrict minors' access to tobacco; and reform indigent health care, welfare, nursing homes, adoption and child support...
Judith Weir "is one of Britain's most wide-ranging and prolific composers. She studied composition with John Tavener while at school in London, and at Cambridge University with Robin Holloway. For six years she taught composition at Glasgow's University and RSAMD and she has also held visiting professorships at Oxford University and Princeton University.
Her interest in theatre, narrative and folklore has resulted in three full length operas (A Night at the Chinese Opera, The Vanishing Bridegroom and Blond Eckbert - all televised, and widely performed in the UK, Germany and the USA); and collaborations with the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Peter Hall Company, working with playwrights including Caryl Churchill and Peter Shaffer. Together with storyteller Vayu Naidu, Judith has created a blend of storytelling and music entitled Future Perfect which has toured England and India."
President, The University of Pennsylvania
1994 - Present
"In 1994, Dr. Judith Rodin became the first woman to be named to the presidency of an Ivy League institution. During nearly a decade of service, Rodin has guided the University through a period of unprecedented growth and development that has transformed Penn's academic core and dramatically enhanced the quality of life on campus and in the surrounding community. Under her leadership, Penn has invigorated its resources, doubling its research funding and tripling both its annual fundraising and the size of its endowment; launched a comprehensive and widely acclaimed neighborhood revitalization program; attracted record numbers of undergraduate applicants, creating Penn's most selective classes ever; and risen in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of top national research universities from 16th in 1994 to 4th in 2002. Dr. Rodin's presidency has also marked the largest capital construction period in Penn's history, with more than $1 billion invested in new buildings, renovations and restorations."
"Judith Butler (1956-) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and is well known as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. Indeed, she is described in alt.culture as "one of the superstars of '90s academia, with a devoted following of grad students nationwide". (A fanzine, Judy!, was published in 1993)."
Last evening I was reading a post on Mopsos - Is there a practical use to SNA? wherein Martin Dugage responds to an article by Patti Anklam on KM and the social network and asks an important question about SNA and corporate settings.
Reading Martin's post and Patti's article inspired me to perform a Google Search on the intersection of "knowledge management" and "social network analysis". The first result of this search was a February 21, 2002 article by Peter Morville on Social Network Analysis that appeared in his column Semantics. Great post by the way. When I read the comments section for this entry I found Ben Hyde's reference to The Sociable Media Group.
Clicking on the Sociable Media Group's people link led me to Judith S. Donath, the Director, who "is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she directs the Sociable Media research group. Her work focuses on the social side of computing, synthesizing knowledge from fields such as graphic design, urban studies and cognitive science to build innovative interfaces for the online communities, virtual identities and computer-mediated collaborations that have emerged with the convergence of computing and communication."
This winding web-based path guided me back to an idea that I had a number of months ago to scribe a series of brief bios, on my weblog, of Notable Judiths. I was first inspired to embark on this endeavor by a late night Google Search on the word Judith. In this search Judith Donath was the second entry out of 4.78 million results. I was originally going to start scribing this series with the first Judith returned by Google. However the second (Judith Donath), in this serendipitous turn of events, will serve as an excellent beginning.
Postscript:
I found this article from Discover magazine in the April 2003 edition - Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya, Baby?. In this article the research of both Judith Donath and Valdis Krebs are featured. And so, to bring this piece back full circle, I recently had a virtual meet with both Patti Anklam and Valdis Krebs in an AOK: Star Series discussion. Patti Was the Star of the series and Valdis most graciously joined in on the discussion to bring his deep knowledge and research to bear in the rather lively discussion. Well within six degrees. (^: