Dr. Julian Lombardi is Assistant Director of the University of Wisconsin's Division of Information Technology, where he oversees a software research and development group defining and leading university-wide initiatives that seek to transform teaching and learning through the use of technology. He is also a principal of the Croquet Project, an open-source software development effort being supported by the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, Viewpoints Research Institute Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Inc. In 1999, he founded ViOS, Inc. after being awarded a patent on technologies and processes for visualizing and organizing location-based information. ViOS developed 3D architectures that supported the visualization of Internet-deliverable resources. Prior to founding ViOS, Dr. Lombardi was a biology professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.