  <b>Jim Davis</b> works for Xerox at the <A HREF="http://dri.cornell.edu">Design Research Institute</A>, a non-proprietary consortium at Cornell University which which seeks ways to improve the engineering design process.  He received a PhD in 1989 from MIT's Media Technology Laboratory.  His thesis, the <i>Back Seat Driver</i> was a computer program which provided spoken driving instructions to the operator of a car in real-time.  Prior to that, he worked in research and development at a number of places including Atari's Cambridge Research Laboratory.  At the DRI he works on developing electronic corporate memory.  His most recent project is a system for <A HREF="http://dri.cornell.edu/pub/davis/annotation.html"> shared group annotation</A> using the World Wide Web.  He also plays electric bass and is learning Dutch.   <p>
