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- Ronald Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell Universities Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, and Director of the Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab) at the University of Toronto. He has been named one of the 60 Pioneers of Computer Graphics by ACM SIGGRAPH, has been elected to the CHI (Computers and Human Interaction) Academy by ACM SIGCHI, and has been given the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award.
+ Ronald Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell Universities Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, and Director of the Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab) at the University of Toronto. He has been named one of the 60 Pioneers of Computer Graphics by ACMSIGGRAPH, has been elected to the CHI (Computers and Human Interaction) Academy by ACMSIGCHI, and has been given the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award.
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+ Tom Chau, Ph.D., P.Eng., received his education at the Universities of Toronto (BASc, MASc) and Waterloo (PhD). From 1996-97, he worked on a number of consulting contracts with KPMG Management Consulting and subsequently joined IBM Canada as a consultant in the Enterprise Resource Planning practice (1997-1999). In 1998, he was awarded an IBM Special Achievement Award as one of the highest grossing technical consultants in the Canadian practice. In 2000, Tom received the Duncan L. Gordon post-doctoral fellowship from the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. He was appointed Canada Research Chair in Paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2004 and a Scientist and Theme Leader at the Bloorview Research Institute in 2005.
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+ Tom occupies his time with a combination of research, teaching, advocacy and fund raising. He draws motivation from witnessing the courage and tenacity of children with disabilities and their families. Tom cherishes the multidisciplinary milieu of health and allied health professions at Bloorview and within the University of Toronto community. In particular, he is inspired daily by the passion of his graduate students to make a difference through excellence in applied science and engineering.
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- In addition to his role as Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Dr. Florida is professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School. He is the founder of the Creative Class Group , a global think tank based in Washington, DC.
+ In addition to his role as Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Dr. Florida is professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School. He is the founder of the Creative Class Group, a global think tank based in Washington, DC.
- Prior to joining the Rotman School he was the Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a senior scientist with the Gallup Organization. Prof. Florida taught for nearly two decades at Carnegie Mellon University and has been a visiting professor at MIT and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He earned his bachelor’s from Rutgers College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His books include three best sellers: The Rise of the Creative Class (Basic Books, 2002), The Flight of the Creative Class (Harper Collins, 2005) and Who’s Your City (Basic Books, 2008).
+ Prior to joining the Rotman School he was the Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a senior scientist with the Gallup Organization. Prof. Florida taught for nearly two decades at Carnegie Mellon University and has been a visiting professor at MIT and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He earned his bachelor’s from Rutgers College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His books include three best sellers: The Rise of the Creative Class (Basic Books, 2002), The Flight of the Creative Class (Harper Collins, 2005) and Who’s Your City (Basic Books, 2008).
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David Humphrey is a professor in the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College. His teaching and research focus on open web standards, web browser architecture, and open source development practices, with a special focus on the development and creation of multimedia web standards and technologies. He is also a long time contributor and developer with the Mozilla project, working on the Firefox web browser. David works closely with the Mozilla Foundation on educational projects, and is the Foundation's Educational Liaison.
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+ Dr. Sara M. Grimes is an Assistant Professor of Children's Literature and New Media at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, and Visiting Professor at the University of St. Michael’s College. She researches and teaches primarily in the areas of children's digital media culture(s), play studies and critical theories of technology, with a special focus on digital games. Sara's work has appeared in journals such as New Media & Society, The Information Society, The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, and Communication, Culture & Critique. Her published work includes explorations of children's virtual worlds and online communities, examinations of online marketing targeted to children, the articulation of a critical theory of digital game play, and discussions of the legal and ethical dimensions of virtual property in online games. In addition to her own research on child-generated content in digital games, Sara is currently collaborating on a number of play-related projects. She is associate director of the Inclusive Design Institute UofT Mobile and Pervasive Computing Cluster, heading the Adaptive Gaming and Inclusive Play research area. She is co-applicant on a recently awarded Partnership Development Grant on Digital Economy Trading Zones, leading a reference project on Play. Sara is on the advisory boards of the Media Awareness Network’s Young Canadians in a Wired World Phase 3, TIFF Nexus New Media Literacy, and Atmosphere Industries' "Privacy: The Game!."
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- Rhonda McEwen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga where she teaches and conducts research on New Media. She spends most of her time at the Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology at UTM where she works with bright undergraduates, and she works with stellar graduate students at the iSchool (Faculty of Information) on the St. George campus. Her research and teaching centre around information practices involving new media technologies. She actively engages with questions on how we use, seek, share, and create information by using devices to talk, text, tweet, collect images, message via Facebook, LinkedIn, and other IM, at work and play. She also examines the ways that we perform identities in both 'real' and virtual worlds through avatars; how we integrate location awareness in our interactions; and she considers the consequences of the uses of technologies on our communication, sociality, and humanity.
+ Rhonda McEwen is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, and Information Technology at the University of Toronto in Mississauga. She holds an MBA in Information Technology from City University in London, England, an MSc in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in Information from University of Toronto. Dr. McEwen's research and teaching centre around information practices involving new media technologies, with an emphasis on mobile & tablet applications, social media design, and youth. She has designed and researched digital communications media for 15 years, both in companies providing services, and in management consulting to those companies. Dr. McEwen is currently researching the use of tablet devices by non-verbal autistic children for communication and sociality in two Toronto school settings.
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+ Rod Michalko, PhD, Associate Professor of Equity Studies, New College at the University of Toronto teaches disability studies in the Department of Equity Studies, New College, University of Toronto. He is also adjunct professor of Disability Studies in the Critical Disability Studies program at York University. Rod is author of numerous articles and three books, the most recent, The Difference that Disability Makes(Temple UP 2002). He is currently in the final stages of completing his forth book, Double Trouble: Disability and Disability Studies. All of Rod’s work is committed to the exploration of disability as a cultural phenomenon and his starting point is his own blindness experience.
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- Alex Mihailidis, Ph.D., P.Eng., is the Barbara G. Stymiest Research Chair in Rehabilitation Technology at the University of Toronto and Toronto Rehab Institute. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy (U of T) and in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (U of T), with a cross appointment in the Department of Computer Science (U of T). He has been conducting research in the field of pervasive computing and intelligent systems in health for the past 13 years, having published over 100 journal papers, conference papers, and abstracts in this field. He has specifically focused on the development of intelligent home systems for elder care and wellness, technology for children with autism, and adaptive tools for nurses and clinical applications.
+ Alex Mihailidis, Ph.D., P.Eng., is the Barbara G. Stymiest Research Chair in Rehabilitation Technology at the University of Toronto and Toronto Rehab Institute. He is also the Graduate Coordinator for the Clinical Engineering Program. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy (U of T) and in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (U of T), with a cross appointment in the Department of Computer Science (U of T). He has been conducting research in the field of pervasive computing and intelligent systems in health for the past 13 years, having published over 150 journal papers, conference papers, and abstracts in this field. He has specifically focused on the development of intelligent home systems for elder care and wellness, technology for children with autism, and adaptive tools for nurses and clinical applications. He currently holds several major research grants from internationally recognized funding agencies to support this work (including both the Canadian and American Alzheimer Associations, NSERC, and CIHR). He is also a CIHR New Investigator. His research has been completed through collaborations with other researchers in this field from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and with various industrial partners. Dr. Mihailidis has also co-edited two books: one from CRC Press entitled “Pervasive computing in healthcare”, and the other from IOS Press entitled “Technology and Aging”, which resulted from him being the conference chair for the 2nd International Conference on Technology and Aging. Dr. Mihailidis is also very active in the rehabilitation engineering profession, currently as the President-Elect for RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America).
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Dr. Ron Owston is Professor of Education and Director of the Institute for Research in Learning Technologies (IRLT) and co-director of the Technology Enhanced Learning Institute (TELi) at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In June 2007, York University awarded him the honorary title of University Professor for his "extraordinary contribution to the University as a colleague, teacher, and scholar." He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences, and published in a variety of fields including technology in education, program evaluation, and teacher development in journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, Journal of Information Technology in Teacher Education, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Internet & Higher Education, and Journal of Research on Computing in Education. Currently, he is researching university course re-design through blended learning and is collaborating with the Inclusive Design Institute, a project aimed at increasing the accessibility and usability of academic software. In the latter project, he is leading the development of the Open Virtual Usability Lab (OpenVULab), an open source application for remote accessibility and usability testing
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- Professor Ratto is developing critical making methodologies that blend scholarly reflection on critical information issues with hands-on material work. His SSHRC-funded project examines changing notions of labour and expertise in relation to 3D printing and rapid prototyping technologies. His work on the materialization of information has been awarded a grant from the Canadian Foundation of Information and the Ontario Research Fund. He is Director of the Critical Making Laboratory at the iSchool.
+ Matt Ratto received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2003, writing his dissertation on the social organization of the Linux development community. Following this, he completed a 2 year post-doc at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information (NIWI) and in 2005 helped create the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam (VKS-KNAW). In 2005, he was awarded a Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) grant to study the use of computer simulation and modeling technologies in Archaeology and in 2007 was given a 1 year fellowship in the HUMlab, an innovative digital humanities laboratory located at the University of Umea, Sweden. He moved to the University of Toronto in 2008.
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- Marlene Scardamalia holds the Presidents' Chair in Education and Knowledge Technologies at OISE/University of Toronto and directs IKIT, the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology—a worldwide network of innovators working to advance the frontiers of knowledge building in various sectors. "Knowledge building," a term now widely used in education and knowledge management, originated with the CSILE/Knowledge Building project. Marlene led the team that created CSILE (Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments), which was the first networked knowledge building environment for education. The second generation version of this technology, Knowledge Forum®, is in use in countries worldwide, in education, health, business, and professional organizations. Knowledge building theories, models, practices and technologies have been developed in partnership with Carl Bereiter and team members.
+ Marlene Scardamalia holds the Presidents' Chair in Education and Knowledge Technologies at OISE/University of Toronto and directs IKIT, the Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology—a worldwide network of innovators working to advance the frontiers of knowledge building in various sectors. "Knowledge building," a term now widely used in education and knowledge management, originated with the CSILE/Knowledge Building project. Marlene led the team that created CSILE (Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments), which was the first networked knowledge building environment for education. The second generation version of this technology, Knowledge Forum®, is in use in countries worldwide, in education, health, business, and professional organizations. Knowledge building theories, models, practices and technologies have been developed in partnership with Carl Bereiter and team members.
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+ Jim Slotta is an associate professor of education in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at The University of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Education and Technology. In 2006, he established the ENCORE lab, a talented team of students, designers and developers who investigate collaborative inquiry learning in formal (K-12) and informal (home, field and museum) settings. In collaboration with researchers from Oslo, Chicago and Berkeley, Slotta and his team have developed the Scalable Architecture for Interactive Learning (SAIL), as well as a framework for smart classroom research called SAIL Smart Space. Recent funded projects have examined the use of embedded phenomena in elementary classrooms, distributed and ubiquitous learning in high school physics, and an immersive rainforest simulation for high school biology. Together, these projects have advanced a theoretical model known as Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI). Professor Slotta and his team have published their work widely, with more than 50 papers presented at major conferences in the past three years. Taken together, this work examines how students can become a knowledge community, supported by technology, to enable inclusive participation and promote the growth of ideas.
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+ Brian Cantwell Smith is a Professor in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr. Smith recently served as the Dean of the Faculty; holds a Canada Research Chair in the Foundations of Information; and is cross-appointed as Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Computer Science and in the Program in Communication, Culture and Technology at University of Toronto at Mississauga. He is also a senior fellow at Massey College, a fellow of University College, and a member of the Trinity College Senior Common Room.
- Smith's research focuses on the conceptual foundations of computation, information, and cognitive science, and on the use of computational metaphors in such fields as biology, physics, and art. These investigations have increasingly led him into metaphysics -- specifically, to an attempt to lay out a systematic metaphysics that aims (i) to steer a path between realism and constructivism, (ii) to account for the integrated emergence of subject and object, and (iii) to reconcile our causal and normative understandings of the world ("matter" and "mattering"). A first cut at this project was first described in On the Origin of Objects (MIT, 1996). A multi-volume study of the foundations of computing, The Age of Significance, is being simultaneously published by MIT Press and serially, on the web, over a period of five or six years (at www.ageofsig.org).
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- Dubbed the “Official Statistician of the Creative Class”, Kevin Stolarick, PhD, combines a depth of knowledge with an appreciation of the importance of finding and sharing the knowledge or “pearls of wisdom” gained from his comprehensive understanding of the Creative Class and the Creative Economy. He has held faculty positions at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and for over a decade worked with technology in the insurance industry as a manager of strategic projects. He holds a PhD in Business Administration and an MBA from the Tepper School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Honors in Applied Computer Science from Illinois State University.
+ Kevin Stolarick, PhD is the Associate Director and Research Associate at The Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He has held faculty positions at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and for over a decade worked with technology in the insurance industry as a manager of strategic projects. He holds a PhD in Business Administration and an MBA from the Tepper School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Honors in Applied Computer Science from Illinois State University. He has taught numerous courses in statistical analysis, Information Systems and in Regional Economic Development. His research interests include the relationship between firm performance and information technology and the impacts of technology, tolerance, talent, and quality of place on regional growth and prosperity. Kevin provided quantitative research and analytical support for Richard Florida during the development of his books The Rise of the Creative Class, The Flight of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?. He continues in collaboration with Richard and others researchers. This research includes primary development of measures, indicators, and benchmarking approaches with significant impact on theory growth and development related the Creative Class theory. He developed all updated indicators and measures for the paperback version of the book, and continues to work on theoretical and measurement-based advances associated with the Creative Economy. One of the few statistical analysts who has the complete works of Edward Tufte and Donald Norman on his shelves, Kevin presents informative, accessible and entertaining insights into the Creative Economy and the role of the Creative Class in increasing regional growth and prosperity.
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Sheridan College
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