Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 5, 2004

MARJORIE HLAVA – ACCESS INNOVATIONS INC

MARJORIE M.K. HLAVA is President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. She is very well known in the international information arena. Currently she is president of NFAIS, the organization of those who create, organize and distribute information. Ms. Hlava is past president of ASIS and the 1996 recipient of ASIST's prestigious Watson Davis Award, a member of the Board of Directors of SLA, member of the Board of NISO, past President of the Board of Documentation Abstracts, and has held many other positions in these and other organizations. She has published more than two hundred articles and books on information science topics. Marjorie has given countless presentations domestically and internationally, including keynote addresses. She has given workshops and lectures on thesaurus development, taxonomy creation, natural language processing, machine translations, and machine aided indexing. Profile
TWST: Marjorie, can we start off with an historical overview of Access

Innovations?

Ms. Hlava: Well, let us see. The company was founded in 1978. My

business partner, Jay Ven Eman, and I were