Symposium2009/En

CHEIFET, Stewart

Stewart Cheifet is President of the Media Division of Image Fortress.
The company focuses on digitizing and indexing analog content and then
providing access to that content by way of free public web sites and
private licensing arrangements.

Prior to assuming his responsibilities at Image Fortress, Stewart was
Director of Audio and Video Collections at the Internet Archive where he
built a large online digital collection covering a broad range of
content from historical documents to popular culture.

His previous experience is as an executive and working journalist in the
broadcast media. He has been called “the original TV techie” and “the
dean of television computer journalists”. He pioneered the field over
twenty years ago when he created and launched the award winning public
television series “Computer Chronicles”. He also anchored another
public television series devoted to the people, culture and business of
the Internet, called “Net Café”.

Stewart has been a guest commentator on technology for National Public
Radio’s “All Things Considered” and he hosted a weekly web-radio talk
show called “Talking about this Week”. He also wrote and anchored a
syndicated radio series about the Internet, “CyberTraffic Report”.

He has been a commentator at many major technology events including
Comdex TV News, the Computer Museum’s Computer Bowl, Discover Magazine’s
Technology Awards, Upside’s Showcase, Upside’s Digital Living Room,
Windows Magazine’s Win-100 Awards, and the Codie Awards for the Software
Information Industry Association.

He frequently appears as a moderator and speaker at corporate events in
the technology field, having worked with such companies as Acer,
AutoDesk, Bay Networks, Boeing, Cable & Wireless, Commerce One, Hewlett
Packard, IBM, KPMG, NetSuite, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase, and others.

Stewart was formerly a correspondent for PBS covering high-tech stories
in the Silicon Valley and Pacific Rim. He has worked in various
capacities for ABC News and CBS News. He also served as President of
PCTV, a company focused on media and technology.

He has won numerous awards for his broadcast journalism work, including
twelve awards from the Computer Press Association. He was named by
AdWeek magazine as one of the five most influential broadcast
journalists in the field of technology.

He is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree
in mathematics and psychology. He also holds a doctorate in law from
Harvard University and he was a Benton Fellow in technology journalism
at the University of Chicago.



スチュワート・シーフェイ

現在、イメージ・フォートレスのメディア部門代表。前職ではインターネット・アーカイブの音響・映像コレクション所長を務め、歴史資料から大衆文化に至るまで様々なコンテンツを網羅する大規模なオンライン・デジタル・コレクションを構築した。また、20年間にわたって放送されたテレビシリーズ『コンピューター・クロニクルズ』の企画制作を担当、インターネットに関わる人々や文化、ビジネスを対象にした『ネット・カフェ』ではキャスターを務めるなど、ジャーナリストとしても幅広く活躍。報道分野での功績における受賞歴も多数。

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