Louis Fox: In his day job, Louis Fox is Vice Provost for Partnerships and Learning Technologies at the University of Washington and a research professor in the Information School, where he has been for the last twenty years and has held numerous academic and administrative posts, all with obscure titles.
The office he leads connects the research and education expertise of the UW to a range of communities - locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally; to develop and diffuse new learning technologies.
Lacking hobbies, Fox also leads a national Internet2 K20 Initiative, which brings together Internet2 members (180 research institutions) with primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums to get new technology-advanced networking tools, content, and applications into the hands of innovators, across all educational sectors in the United States, as quickly and as "connectedly" as possible, and to connect those innovators to similar communities around the globe.
Casting aside any last shreds of a normal life, and at the request of Washington Governor Gary Locke, Fox served two years as founding CEO of the Washington Digital Learning Commons, a new distance learning initiative to support all students and teachers in Washington State.