ILinc Corporation
Chairman and Founder
ILinc Founders: Degerhan Usluel, Mark Bernstein, Jack Wilson.
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Jack M. Wilson, Ph.D. ,
President-Emeritus and Distinguished Professor
Emeritus,
The University of Massachusetts,
President, The
University of Massachusetts system, The 25th President from September 2, 2003 to June
30, 2011.
[Boston
Globe]
Distinguished Professor of Higher
Education, Emerging Technologies, & Innovation (Retired June
2022)
Chairman and President (Founder) ILinc Software Corporation
1993-2000 [ILinc
Chapter] [ILinc-Home]
Founder:
Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship
President, (interim) The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States
Senate 2011-2012. Also Member of Board 2008-2012
Chief
Executive Officer-Founding of
UMassOnline 2001-2003
Chair -Founding Chair of the
Mass Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC)
(History)2009-2011
Chair,
River Hawk New Venture Fund, 2014-present
Board Member:
UMass
Memorial Healthcare (System 2010-2018, Community Hospitals
2018-present, Governance and IT Comm.)
Founding Board Member and Chair Governance Comm.,
Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC)
Vice-Chair -Founding of $1 Billion Mass Life
Science Center 2007-2011,
(MLSC)
Founding Member of Massachusetts
Clean Energy Center;
2009-2011
Chair, Investment Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts
Innovation Institute of
the Mass Technology Collaborative 2005-present
Chairman of the Board, U.S. Dept. of Education
Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE). 2010-2014
The National Security Higher Education Advisory
Board (advising the FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security) 2010-2011
National Board of Directors of the American Public and Land Grant
Universities (APLU) 2009-2011
National Chair of the Commission on Innovation
Competitiveness and Economic Prosperity (CICEP) of APLU 2009-2011.
Member: National Academy of Science/National Research
Council Committee on Undergraduate Education Research and Implementation
2010-2012
Member (former): National Board of Directors of the Alliance
for Research in Science and Technology for America (ASTRA)
Member (former):
The U.S.
Council on Competitiveness.
Chairman, New England Defense Technology
Initiative 2011-2013
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Mikhail Gorbachev in a Red Sox Cap
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Awards
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APS Fellow
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AAPT Fellow
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OLC Fellow
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Theodore Hesburgh
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Pew Prize
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Boeing Prize
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FBI Exceptional Service
in the Public Interest
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Mass. All-Star
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Mass. Tech. Leadership Council Workforce Leader of the Year
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U.S. Army Distinguished. Civilian Service
Medal
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FBI Award for
Exceptional Service in the Public Interest
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US Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal awarded
for his work with the military technology education program.
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Distinguished Professor of Higher
Education, Emerging Technologies, & Innovation (Retired June
2011)
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Former Distinguished Professor of Physics,
Engineering, Information Technology, and Management at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
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Served as Department Chair, Research Center
Director, Dean, Vice President, and Provost at four major research
universities.
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Entrepreneur in the
private sector:
founded the ILinc Corporation
& served as President & Chairman until he sold it in
2000.
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Founding Chair of the
Mass Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC)
(History)2009-2011
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Founding Vice-Chair of $1 Billion Mass
Life Science Center 2006-2011
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Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on 54
grants with 20 from NSF.
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Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association of
Physics Teachers, and the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Sloan
Foundation Consortium)
and has received many awards for his work
in technology in education, higher education policy, and technology
driven economic development.
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Dr. Wilson established the
Jack M. Wilson Presidential
Scholarship Fund with a gift of an Insurance Policy worth
$1,775,000 -funded with performance bonuses that he was
to have received under his contracts over the years.
To that was
added $230,000 from a dinner honoring his retirement as President and
another $120,000 raised during his inauguration.
The total value
of the Scholarship fund at his retirement as President in July of 2011 was
over $2.1 million.
[Application]
-Boston Business Journal:
UMass Prez Wilson chips in for $2.1M scholarship fund in his own name
-Mass Live:
UMass President Helps Establish Scholarship
-University of Massachusetts:
News Release June 2, 2011.
Scholarship Agreement Text
Short
Description
He has also created the
Jack M. Wilson Endowed Presidential
Entrepreneurship Award Fund to
support the study of Entrepreneurship at UMass Lowell. He
continues to add to the funding of this endowment each year.
The total had reached over $400,000 by June 2022. "Chancellor
Announces New Campaign Gifts"
Selected articles and press coverage:
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Funding
Higher Education February 2023
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Profile done by Czech Magazine after my
speaking tour of the Czech and Slovak Republics [Profile
Part 1] [Profile
-Part 2]
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Pictures From Interview by the Donahue Center for
Ethics and Social Responsibility. [Donahue
Interview]
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Video done for the 10th Anniversary of
the National Commission for Innovation, Competitiveness, and
Economic Prosperity,
Past Chair and Founding Member [VIDEO]
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Op-Ed Can we have Peace for our time?
Ukraine.
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Talk to RPI Ethics Class -Azita Hirsa -[Talk]
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Talk at Global Entrepreneurship Conference "Technological
Entrepreneurship;" July 9. 2018
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Talk at the Gamma Nu Eta National
Honorary Society for Information Technology Meeting at RPI - April
19, 2017
[Growing Up With the Faculty of Information Technology-
Challenges: Then
and Now.]
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Talks in Prague, Czech Republic
and Bratislava, Slovakia on November 10-15, 2016
[Entrepreneurship:
Promoting Government-Industry-University Partnerships ]
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Tribute to Keith Motley as he concludes
his service as Chancellor at UMass Boston [Speech
Text]
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Sermon from 2006: "In
an Age of Terror, is Reconciliation Possible?"
- COVID-19
Running
summary of data modeling
- "Teaching Technological
Entrepreneurship;" A webinar for the Global Entrepreneurship
Program; 25 September 2019 [Presentation]
- Jack Wilson, Degerhan Usluel, and Mark Bernstein are
named as the 2019 Entrepreneurs of the Year
by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Center for Technological Entrepreneurship [Complete
Announcement] [ILinc
Story] [Slide
Show]
- Video
Tribute Reflecting on the Presidency of Dr. Jack M. Wilson who served from
2003-2011. [Video
Link]
- UMass Lowell
Commencement Speech May 18, 2019 Jack
M. Wilson
- GE-2:
Global
Entrepreneurship Experience July 8, 2019 Jack M. Wilson
- BioTech East; A workshop for post-docs and new PhDs
to introduce them to how BioTech products are brought to market.---
Jack Wilson: “Lean
Launch, Business Models & Technological Entrepreneurship"
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Memoirs -In preparation for publishing -384 pages tentative length
[Memoirs -Table of Contents]
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Boston Business Journal -MassHighTech:
Jack Wilson on Leaving a Legacy
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UMass Lowell Commencement Speech 2019:
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Crypto:
Classes:
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FBI Award for Exceptional Service in the Public Interest
Robert Kraft with Michael Collins and me
Julius Erving (Dr J), Jack Wilson,
Al Skinner
Carl Sagan and Jack Wilson |