Christine Maxwell on the Internet

Biography

Christine Maxwell

Present Work
Ms. Maxwell has become a Senior Partner of the Institute for Scientific Simulation (ISS), based in Monterey, California, (http://www.scisim.com) . Ms. Maxwell’s pioneering and innovative work in the development of Internet content architectures and Internet publishing will greatly enhance ISS’s ability to provide Internet-based consulting services and also extend the capabilities of the technologies ISS infuses into commercial and government enterprises.

Ms. Maxwell is also focusing her research, publishing and Internet expertise on creating new web - based publishing and knowledge transfer processes for high value intellectual property over the Internet. In the furtherance of this research work and specifically working towards a PhD, she has become a Research Associate at ISRI (Institute for Software Research International, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon West, California, USA.(The focus of ISRI is the creation of innovative solutions to the problems of practical, large-scale, high-quality software-intensive systems for the new millennium.)

Career History
As co-founder of the Magellan online directory in 1993, one of the first most successful, truly international search engine and directory sites on the Internet, Ms Maxwell was the publisher and creative visionary behind the McKinley Group, owners of the Magellan online directory, which was sold to Excite in 1996.

Ms Maxwell has a unique expertise in the setting up of trustworthy evaluation criteria for tens of thousands of Internet sites since the early 90's. This expertise, coupled with the fact that she is a 25 year veteran of Scientific, Technical and Educational publishing industries and has extensive teaching and training experience, has made her a natural choice to give many Internet - related presentations around the world.

Recognizing early on the need for a clear, concise guide to the Internet, Maxwell created one of the first Internet Yellow Pages ever to appear in print: the original "New Riders Official Internet Yellow Pages" published by MacMillan Publishers under its New Riders Imprint in 1994. She brought out the third edition of this work under the revised title of "McKinley Internet Yellow Pages." A best seller through several international editions, the work achieved critical acclaim as an essential Internet reference tool. Maxwell also has a wealth of first-hand experience in the educational arena, both as an elementary school teacher and as the developer of educational material for grades K-12.

Ms. Maxwell served for six years as a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute, a private, non-profit, multidisciplinary research and education center, founded in 1984 in Sta. Fe, New Mexico. SFI devotes itself to creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging science. (http://www.santafe.edu) She is on the Board of Advisors to Leonardo/ ISAST, the International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology - A Society that serves the international arts community by providing a channel for those artists who use science and developing technologies in their work. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/isastinfo.html) and (http://www.olats.org)

This year, Ms. Maxwell has also accepted to be on the non profit Board of Directors of the “International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (http://www.icdri.org). As a former elementary school teacher, she is committed to help further the mission of ICDRI – “to collect a global knowledge base of quality disability resources and best practices and to provide education, outreach and training based on these core resources”. This mission speaks directly to Ms. Maxwell’s awareness of learning difficulties of so many and of her continued commitment to assist non profit causes and education for the disadvantaged in particular.

Prior to launching The McKinley Group, Maxwell held senior marketing, strategic business and development positions with Pergamon Press Publishers, Science Research Associates (SRA) and Macmillan Publishing Company. She holds a teaching credential from Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education, Oxford, England, and BA degrees in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Pitzer College, Claremont, California, USA.

Ms. Maxwell is a tri-national and speaks English, French and Spanish fluently. She lives in the South of France with her husband and three young children.

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