John Wilbanks

John Wilbanks

John Wilbanks is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and engineer. He is a vice president of Creative Commons and the executive director of Science Commons as of 2008.

Education and career

John Wilbanks attended Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1994.cite web|url=http://berlin4.aei.mpg.de/biography/Bio_Wilbanks_OA06.pdf|title=Wilbanks Bio|publisher=Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam|accessdate=2008-06-21] cite web|url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/234|title=John Wilbanks | Berkman Center|date=2008-01-09|publisher=Berkman Center for Internet and Society|accessdate=2008-06-18] He also studied modern letters at the Sorbonne in Paris.

From 1994 to 1997, he worked in Washington, DC as a legislative aide to Congressman Fortney "Pete" Stark. During this time Wilbanks was also a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association. John was the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's first Assistant Director from the fall of 1998 to the summer of 2000. There he led efforts in software development and Internet-mediated learning, and was involved in the Berkman Center's work on ICANN.

While at the Berkman Center, Wilbanks founded Incellico, Inc., a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development. He served as President and CEO, and led to the company's acquisition in the summer of 2003).

He has also served as a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium on Semantic Web for Life Sciences.

cience Commons

John began working at Creative Commons in October 2004.cite web|url=http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#34|title=People - Creative Commons|publisher=Creative Commons|accessdate=2008-06-18] As vice president of science he runs the Science Commons project.

He was interviewed by Popular Science magazine,cite web|url=http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-07/will-john-wilbanks-launch-next-scientific-revolution|title=Will John Wilbanks Launch the Next Scientific Revolution? |last=Seiff|first=Abby|date=2007-07-19|publisher=Popular Science|accessdate=2008-06-18] KRUU Radio,cite web|url=http://www.kruufm.com/node/414|title=16 - Open Views - John Wilbanks, Science Commons|last=Raman|first=Sundar|date=2007-01-23|accessdate=2008-08-08] and BioMed Central to discuss Science Commons.cite web|url=http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/23/features|title=Science Commons makes sharing easier|last=Weitzman|first=Jonathan B.|date=2004-12-20|publisher=Open Access Now|accessdate=2008-06-18]

Footnotes

External links

* [http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/wilbanks John Wilbanks' blog] at [http://network.nature.com/ Nature Network]


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