Dr. Robson has had a diverse and successful career as a researcher, entrepreneur, and innovator in industry and academia. He has made significant contributions to mathematics, learning technology, education, and the development of interoperability standards. He is co- founder and CEO of Eduworks Corporation, a company that applies artificial intelligence, text mining, and other advanced technologies to improve human performance, and he serves on multiple boards and committees of the IEEE Standards Association and IEEE Computer Society. Robby has played leadership and governance roles in small businesses and professional societies and is currently leading the open source CASS project that is developing transformative infrastructure for competency-based education, training, and career management.

Interoperability standards and data standards have long played important roles in the development and dissemination of learning technologies, and as we consider the theme of this conference - self-improving adaptive systems - it is appropriate to ask which standards could make a difference to this potentially transformational technology. The easy answer is "standards for adaptive instructional systems," but there are many other standards that may have profound impacts,  including standards for machine learning, data governance, knowledge representation, and ethics. This talk will survey this broader standards landscape and discuss the potential effects of selected ongoing standardization efforts.