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Scholar in Virtual Residence

In Residence September 2009-August 2010

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, The New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

The founding of the IS Scholar in Virtual Residence marks our first celebration for these forty years of the Independent Studies program. Cory Doctorow generously accepted this posting to mentor three promising IS creative writers by means of 21st century world-wide communication and global village connections.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Cory now lives in London, England, and hence the need for a ‘virtual’ relationship with us now!

Cory was an IS pre-thesis student in four consecutive terms from 1993 to 1994, and he opted out of thesis phase when his ideas for a thesis project did not match standards expected by the IS Board of Directors at that time.

Cory is the former European Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation <http://www.eff.org/>, and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/> which advocates the preservation of individual rights online in the digital age.

Cory is currently a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open University (UK); in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels are published by Tor Books and HarperCollins UK and are simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work.

Cory has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, New York Times Bestseller LITTLE BROTHER, was published in May 2008, and his latest short story collection is OVERCLOCKED: STORIES OF THE FUTURE PRESENT. In 2008, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, entitled CONTENT: SELECTED ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY, CREATIVITY, COPYRIGHT AND THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (with introduction by John Perry Barlow) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction, CORY DOCTOROW'S FUTURISTIC TALES OF THE HERE AND NOW.

LITTLE BROTHER was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young adult novel in America's top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008.

His new novel, MAKERS was published in October 2009 and he has been working on a young adult novel, FOR THE WIN, about union organizing in video games.

Cory co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, the Organization for Transformative Works, Areae, the Annenberg Center for the Study of Online Communities, and Onion Networks, Inc.

In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called Cory, "the William Gibson of his generation." He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007/8 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007.

On February 3, 2008, he became a father. His little girl is Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, and is "a marvel that puts all the works of technology and artifice to shame."

Cory lectured at the University of Waterloo on September 26, 2009, sponsored by the Independent Studies program, and returned October 22nd to present at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute.

 

 

Academic Advisors

 

Jennifer Simpson, 2010-2011

Chair, Drama & Speech Communication, Associate Professor

ML 254A ~ x38364

Dr. Simpson is an interdisciplinary scholar with a focus in communication. In collaboration with Leda Cooks, she is the co-editor of Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance: Dis/placing Race (Lexington Books, 2007). She is also the author of I Have Been Waiting: Race and U.S. Higher Education (University of Toronto Press, 2003). This book won the 2003 Outstanding Book Award from the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association. She has published articles in The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Journal of Intercultural Communication Research; Journal of International and Intercultural Communication; and The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

Dr. Simpson does research in the areas of higher education, race, whiteness, critical pedagogy, intercultural communication, and democracy and justice. The courses she teaches include intercultural communication; persuasion; interpersonal communication; gender and communication;  public communication; and communication, democracy, and justice. She is currently working on a book on higher education and democracy for the University of Toronto Press. She is committed to teaching and learning that encourage critical thinking, ethical analysis, and changed practice.

 

George Francis

Chrysanne DiMarco, Associate Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science, BSc, MSc, PhD, (Toronto)

Chrysanne DiMarco has been a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo since graduating from the University of Toronto in 1990.

Her research interests include: computational models of natural language pragmatics, computational linguistics, health informatics, and biomedical information extraction.  Professor DiMarco is the project leader of the HealthDoc Project (1994-present), which has been developing Web-based natural language generation systems for producing health information tailored to the medical condition and personal characteristics of an individual.  Professor DiMarco is also the President of Inkpot Software Inc., the spin-off company from the HealthDoc Project.

http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/~cdimarco
View Chrysanne's Agenda

Office: Davis Centre 1308
519.888.4443
email: cdimarco{at}logos.uwaterloo.ca

 

George Francis

Michael Elmitt, Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, National Diploma in Design (High Wycombe), Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Mike was a full-time faculty member in UW's Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture teaching in the Studio Design theme area. He joined UW in 1971 following a distinguished career as a designer in the U.K.. Mike's work there has been well documented in design journals and includes concepts for the automobile, shipping, and aircraft industry, as well as producing furniture for exhibit. Since coming to Canada, Mike's work includes architectural concepts, furniture, exhibition, graphic and small boat design. He has curated the work of other notable artists and designers and continues to exhibit his own work. Mike maintains a broad interest in all matters concerning both art and architecture, and the arts in general.

 

James Frank, Professor, Vice-President & Academic Dean, St. Jerome's University, IS Academic Advisor 200X-2006

B.Sc. (University of Waterloo), M.Sc. (University of Waterloo), Ph.D. (University of So California)

http://www.sju.ca/people2.php?id=348&p=show

 

 

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Susan Wismer, Director & Advisor, 2007-2011

Award of Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision, 2012

Associate Professor Emeritus, Environment & Resource Studies
Phone: 519-888-4567 x35795
Email: skwismer@uwaterloo.ca
Research: development of sustainable communities in Canada and overseas, and gender and equity issues.

 

 

  William R. Abbott, Interim Director 2006-2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Francis

Richard H. Holmes, Director 2003-2006

Associate Professor Philosophy, BA, MA (Montana), PhD (Washington University at St. Louis), Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award

Office: HH 359
519.888.4567 Ext 32650
email: rholmes {at} uwaterloo {DOT} ca

 

 

 

 

 

George Francis

George Francis, Interim IS Director 2001 to 2003 (with Sally Lerner)

Dr. Francis is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Environment and Resource Studies. He was informally involved with the Independent Studies program for a number of years, serving at various times as a member of a Senate review committee for Independent Studies, member of the Academic Board, an Academic Advisor, and, as of July 1, 2001, the Interim Director of Independent Studies for that current academic year.

His original academic degrees were in biology (ecology), political economy, and resource management. His long time academic interest is in the implications for governance and management that arise from adopting "an ecosystem" approach to regional environmental and resource management issues; these situations pose even greater challenges in light of recent theorizing in both ecology and the social sciences about the dynamics of complex open systems.

George has written extensively on these and other topics; served on various governmental committees dealing with conservation and resource management issues at the international, national provincial and local levels; and served on the Boards of several non-governmental organizations.

 

 

Gary Griffin, 1989-2003

 

Anne Dagg, 1986-1989

 

Gloria Smith, 1985

 

Bill Smyth, 1974-1985

 

 

Board Members

Ian McKillop, BIS '87, MASc, PhD, all from UW

He holds the JW Graham Research Chair in Health Information Systems at the University of Waterloo where he is jointly appointed to the David R Cheriton School of Computer Science and the Department of Health Studies and Gerontology as Associate Professor.

Ian helps champion the University of Waterloo's emerging thrust into the field of health informatics, and is one of the co-founders of ideas FOR HEALTH - a research and education group at Waterloo focusing on innovations in data, evidence and application systems in healthcare.

Ian's research focuses how information technology can be used to address the decision-making needs of clinical providers and policy makers in the health sector. He has a particular interest in developing information management strategies able to support the provision of quality care in e-enabled clinical settings by addressing issues related to security, privacy and data integrity.

Since 1997, he has been part of the team that leads one of the largest, publicly-available hospital performance enhancement systems in the world. ideas FOR HEALTH at UW has taken an active role in this project, and over 150 hospitals in Ontario currently rely on UW expertise to support their decision-making processes.

Ian sits on national and provincial committees with mandates related to information systems and funding in Canada's health system and is actively involved in international initiatives. His work has contributed to a number of commissions and government inquiries. Dr McKillop is affiliated with both the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science (ICES) and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is actively engaged in a number of international activities.

Dr McKillop was recognized in 2008 by the Annual Arts in Academics.

Offices: DC 3530, NH 1007, BMH 3736
519.888.4567, Ext 37127
email: ian{at}uwaterloo.ca

http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~ian

 

Dr. Donald Burn, 2005-2007

P.Eng., received a BASc (1981), MASc (1982), and PhD (1985) from the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Burn joined the University of Manitoba in 1985 as an Asissitant Professor. On July 1, 1998, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo as a Professor.

Dr. Burn teaches courses in hydrology and environmental systems modelling at the undergraduate level and courses related to statistical hydrology and water management at the graduate level. Dr. Burn conducts research dealing with statistical aspects of hydrology. The primary foci of this work are in regional flood frequency analysis and approaches for the characterizing drought probabilities in large drainage basins. Dr. Burn also conducts research investigating the hydrological implications of climatic change.


George Francis

 

Sally Lerner, PhD, taught in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies. Her major research interests have been the globalizing economy, particularly the social, political, environmental, and economic issues involved. Sally has been the Co-Coordinator of the Futurework Lists and the Acting Director of the Centre for Society, Technology and Values. Sally's professional involvements have included being a member of the Board of Directors of Great Lakes United, serving on the Outside Jury for the Seaton Design Competition, as Canadian Co-Chair, Board of Technical Experts, Social Science Task Group, Great Lakes Fisheries Commission, and as a member of the International Joint Commission's Task Force on the Virtual Elimination of Persistent Toxic Substances from the Great Lakes. Additionally, Sally has been Co-ordinator of Basic Income Canada.

Office: EV2 2042
519.888.4567, Ext 33061~ email: lerner {at} uwaterloo {DOT} ca

 

Wayne Hawthorn, Chair, 2006-2007

 

Jay Thompson, Chair & Board Member

 

William R. Abbott, Board Member 2002-2004

 

Richard Holmes, Chair & Board Member, XXXX-2003

 

 

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