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INTERVIEWS (1998-2001)
MARIE LEBERT
NEF, University of Toronto, 2001
Copyright © 2001 Marie Lebert
What do they do on the Web? What do they think of the Internet, copyright, multilingualism, the future of paper, the e-book, the information society, etc.? A series of interviews between 1998 and 2001 with writers, journalists, publishers, booksellers, librarians, professors, researchers, linguists, etc. There is also a French version (with more interviews): Entretiens (1998-2001), and a Spanish version (with a few interviews): Entrevistas (1998-2001). The original versions are available on the NEF, University of Toronto: http://www.etudes-francaises.net/entretiens/index.htm
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(*) Interviews translated by Marie Lebert (with Greg Chamberlain).
Guy Antoine (New Jersey) / Founder of Windows on Haiti, a source of positive information about Haitian culture
Arlette Attali * (Paris) / Head of Research and Internet Projects at the INaLF
(Institut national de la langue française - National Institute of the French
Language)
Robert Beard (Pennsylvania) / Co-Founder of yourDictionary.com, a major language portal
Michael Behrens (Bielefeld, Germany) / In charge of the digital library of
Bielfeld University Library
Guy Bertrand & Cynthia Delisle * (Montreal) / Respectively scientific director and consultant at the CEVEIL (Centre d'expertise et de veille inforoutes et langues - Centre for Assessment and Monitoring of Information Highways and Languages)
Alain Bron * (Paris) / Information systems consultant and writer. The Internet is one of the "characters" of his novel Sanguine sur toile (Sanguine on the Web)
Tyler Chambers (Boston) / Creator of The Human-Languages Page (who became iLoveLanguages in 2001) and The Internet Dictionary Project
Alain Clavet * (Ottawa) / Policy analyst with the Office of the Commissioner of the Official Languages in Canada
Jean-Pierre Cloutier * (Montreal) / Editor of Chroniques de Cybérie, a weekly report of Internet news
Kushal Dave * (Yale) / Student at Yale University
Bruno Didier * (Paris) / Webmaster of the Institute Pasteur Library
Catherine Domain * (Paris) / Founder of the Ulysses Bookstore (Librairie
Ulysse), the oldest travel bookstore in the world
Helen Dry (Michigan) / Moderator of The Linguist List
Bill Dunlap (Paris & San Francisco) / Founder of Global Reach, a methodology for companies to expand their Internet presence through a multilingual website
Jacques Gauchey * (San Francisco) / Specialist in the information technology industry, "facilitator" between the United States and Europe, and journalist
Marcel Grangier * (Bern) / Head of the French Section of the Swiss Federal
Government's Central Linguistic Services
Barbara F. Grimes (Hawaii) / Editor of Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Michael Hart (Illinois) / Founder of Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library on the Internet
Roberto Hernández Montoya * (Caracas) / Head of the digital library of the electronic magazine Venezuela Analítica
Randy Hobler (Dobbs Ferry, New York) / Internet Marketing Consultant. Worked at
Globalink, a company specialized in language translation software and services
Eduard Hovy (Marina del Rey, California) / Head of the Natural Language Group at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USC/ISI)
Christiane Jadelot * (Nancy, France) / Researcher at the INaLF (Institut national de la langue française - National Institute of the French Language)
Jean-Paul * (Paris) / Webmaster of cotres furtifs (Furtive Cutter Ships), a website that tells stories in 3D
Brian King / Director of the WorldWide Language Institute, who initiated NetGlos
(The Multilingual Glossary of Internet Terminology)
Geoffrey Kingscott (London) / Co-editor of the online magazine Language Today
Steven Krauwer (Utrecht, Netherlands) / Coordinator of the European Network of
Excellence in Human Language Technologies (ELSNET)
Michael Martin (Berkeley, California) / Founder and president of Travlang, a site dedicated both to travel and languages
Tim McKenna (Geneva) / Thinks and writes about the complexity of truth in a world of flux
Yoshi Mikami (Fujisawa, Japan) / Creator of The Languages of the World by
Computers and the Internet, and co-author of The Multilingual Web Guide
John Mark Ockerbloom (Pennsylvania) / Founder of The On-Line Books Page, listing freely-available online books
Caoimhín P. Ó Donnaíle (Island of Skye, Scotland) / Maintains a list of european minority languages on the main website with information on Scottish Gaelic
Jacques Pataillot * (Paris) / Management Consultant with the firm Cap Gemini
Ernst & Young
Peter Raggett (Paris) / Head of the Centre for Documentation and Information
(CDI) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Henri Slettenhaar (Geneva) / Professor in communication technology at Webster
University
Murray Suid (Palo Alto, California) / Writer, works for EDVantage Software, an
Internet company specialized in educational software
June Thompson (Hull, United Kingdom) / Manager of the C&IT (Communications &
Information Technology) Centre at the University of Hull
Paul Treanor (Netherlands) / Created a personal website with a section on the future of languages in Europe
François Vadrot * (Paris) / Founder, chairman and managing director of FTPress
(French Touch Press), a cybermedia company
Robert Ware (Colorado) / Creator of Onelook Dictionaries, a fast finder of words in 650 dictionaries
GUY ANTOINE (New Jersey)
#Founder of Windows on Haiti, a source of positive information about Haitian culture
*Interview of November 22, 1999
= Can you tell us about Windows on Haiti?
At the end of April 1998, I launched an Internet site, simple in concept, but ambitious in its reach and overall scope. The site aims to be a major source of information about Haitian culture, and a