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PETER B. KAUFMAN
Senior Fellow

 

 

 

 

 

Expertise Broadcast media, publishing, Russian affairs

 

Founder and president of Intelligent Television, Peter B. Kaufman has been a World Policy Institute Senior Fellow in media and international affairs for 12 years, and serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the World Policy Journal.

 

Mr. Kaufman is also an expert consultant on access issues for the Library of Congress Division of Motion Pictures, Broadcast, and Recorded Sound.  He has served as director of the Open Education Video Project, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Associate Director of the Columbia University Center for New Media Teaching and Learning; a member of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and a member of the Social Science Research Council Digital Cultural Institutions Project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

 

Prior to Intelligent Television, Kaufman served as founder and president of TV Books, where he developed and concluded publishing deals with television networks and independent television producers, literary agents, and authors around the world. After he sold majority interest in TV Books to Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels' television and film company, Mr. Kaufman served as Director of Strategic Initiatives at Innodata Corporation, the world's largest provider of digital asset services and XML solutions. He also has served as founder and executive director of PUBWATCH, a nonprofit organization supporting book industries in Eastern Europe, and director of publications at the Institute for EastWest Studies.

 

Mr. Kaufman has written for Publishers Weekly, Scholarly Publishing, Slavic Review, Russian History, The New York Times, The Nation, The Times Literary Supplement, and International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia.

 

 

Honors & Affiliations
Society for Scholarly Publishing; Society for Historians of American Foreign

     Relations

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Friends of PEN  

American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure

     in the Humanities

Social Science Research Council Digital Cultural Institutions Project

 

 

 

Education
Studied at Columbia University's W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced  

     Study of the Soviet Union
M.I.A. in International Security Policy, School of International and Public

     Affairs, Columbia University 
B.A. cum laude, College Scholar (interdisciplinary honors program:

     concentration in American and Soviet Studies), Cornell University  

 

 

Languages 
Russian and French  

 

 

Contact pbk(at)intelligenttv.com

 

 

 

SELECTED ARTICLES & MEDIA

Peter Kaufman will be Keynote speaker at the Economies of the Commons Conference in Amsterdam, June 2008. His address is titled “Intelligent Television - The Economics of Film and Video Distribution in the Digital Age.”

Read about The Harlem Digital Archive and see the promo Video

 

"Video, Education, and Open Content: Notes Toward a New Research Action and Agenda," in First Monday, Vol. 12, No. 4, April 2007.

 

 

 

LECTURES & APPEARANCES

 

Kaufman will be the keynote speaker at the Economies of the Commons Conference in Amsterdam, June 2008. His address is titled "Intelligent Television - The Economics of Film and Video Distribution in the Digital Age."

 

Participated in a discussion for the Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York (ART) on  February 7, 2008. The discussion was titled, "Preserving Your Moving Image and Sound Collections: An Overview of the Present with a View Toward the Future."

 

Participated in the University of Illinois Forum on Open Access, Alternative Publishing Models, and Author Rights at UIUC, October 3, 2007.

 

Brown Bag discussion at University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science, November 8, 2007.

 

"Moving Images and Digital Libraries," presented at the Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, November 6, 2007 in Philadelphia.

 

Participated in PICNIC's "Create More Using Public Content," on September 6, 2007 in Amsterdam.

 

Participated in the panel, "Music, Television, and New Media," at the Society for Scholarly Publishing's annual conference, September 5-7, 2007, in Philadelphia.

 

"Why Museums Matter," was the title of Mr. Kaufman's remarks at the Association of American Museums' annual meeting in Chicago, May 15, 2007.

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