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John Wilbanks in Kansas City, MO, 14 September 2009. Photo by Nick Vedros.
John Wilbanks is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and engineer. He is the vice president for Science of Creative Commons and the executive director of Science Commons.
Education and career
John Wilbanks attended Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1994.[1][2] He also studied modern letters at the Sorbonne in Paris.[1]
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.[2] 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.[2]
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).[2][3] He has also served as a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium on Semantic Web for Life Sciences.[2] He is currently a member of the National Advisory Committee for PubMed Central, and the Board of Directors for DuraSpace and AcaWiki.
Science Commons
John began working at Creative Commons in October 2004.[3] As vice president of science he runs the Science Commons project. He was named a Seed Magazine Revolutionary Mind in 2008,[4] and has been interviewed by Popular Science magazine,[5] KRUU Radio,[6] and BioMed Central to discuss Science Commons.[7]
Seed magazine named Wilbanks among their Revolutionary Minds of 2008, as a "Game Changer" [8] and the Utne Reader named him in 2009 as one of "50 visionaries who are changing your world".[9]
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