Director, Information Technology Services
University of Hawaii
- Dr. David Lassner
- Email: david@hawaii.edu
- Web: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~david
David Lassner serves as the University
of Hawaii’s first Chief Information Officer. In that capacity he has
been responsible for designing, implementing and directing a new integrated
organization to support academic computing, administrative computing,
distance learning technology and voice, data and video telecommunications.
This unit provides the technology support for UH-Manoa, Hawaii’s Carnegie
Research 1 campus, as well as serving the statewide needs of the entire
university system which is comprised of 10 campuses and 5 education centers
on 6 islands.
David is a member of the University's Cooperating Graduate Faculty and has taught in the Department of Information & Computer Science, the College of Business Administration and the College of Education as well as at Roosevelt University. He has been at the University of Hawaii since 1977, holding both technical and management positions in instructional technology, computing support, networking and distance education. David has been a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and worked as a student courseware developer at the University of Illinois Computer-based Education Research Laboratory.
David represents the University of Hawaii on the Board of Hawaii Public Television and in the Internet2 project. He is a founder of the Hawaii Internet Exchange, Hawaii’s first neutral public/private peering facility which is hosted at the University, and is the current Chair of the Hawaii Intranet Consortium which provides Internet linkages and peering among federal and state facilities in Hawaii. David coordinates a number of education projects for the Internet Society and is active in EDUCAUSE, where he initiated several constituent groups and currently chairs the Nominations & Elections Committee. He is Vice President for Education & Seminars on the Executive Board of the Pacific Telecommunications Council and is also a founding Steering Committee member and past-Chair of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications. David also serves on the Research Advisory Board of the Pacific Internet Exchange, Corporation (PIXC).
David was Principal Investigator (PI) for the Hawaii Education and Research Network (HERN), Hawaii's 3-yr $2.1M NSF-sponsored Networking Infrastructure for Education demonstration project. He is also the PI for the University's High Performance Connections grant, for which he established the nation’s first cooperative arrangement with a federal network (DREN) to provide a university with Internet2 connectivity. David is the author of several book chapters, hosts a monthly television show on high technology in Hawaii, and speaks on a range of topics locally, nationally and internationally.
David earned an A.B. in
Economics summa cum laude and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication
and Information Sciences from the University of Hawaii.
