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Ian Bogost Ian Bogost is a game designer, academic game researcher, and educational publisher. Currently, Dr. Bogost is Assistant Professor in the at The Georgia Institute of Technology, where he researches on videogame criticism and videogame rhetoric and teaches in the undergraduate program in Computational Media and the graduate program in Digital Media.
Dr. Bruckman is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, and a member of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center. She received her Ph.D. from the Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab in 1997, and her B.A. in physics from Harvard University in 1987. She does research on online communities and education, and is the founder of the Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) research group. Dr. Bruckman's research applies the "constructionist" philosophy of education to the design of online communities. Constructionism advocates learning through design and construction activities -- learning through working on personally meaningful projects. The Internet has a unique potential to make constructionist learning scalable and sustainable in real-world settings, because it makes it easy to provide social support for learning and teaching. In electronic learning communities, participants can help motivate and support one-another's activities. She founded the College's Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) program.
Richard A. DeMillo is the John P. Imlay Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for RSA Security (RSAS; NSDQ), the market leader in authentication and identity management, headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. He returned to academia after a career as an executive in industry and government. He was Chief Technology Officer for Hewlett-Packard, where he had worldwide responsibility for technology and technology strategy. Prior to joining HP, he was in charge of Information and Computer Sciences Research at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) in Morristown, New Jersey, where he oversaw the development of many internet and web-based innovations. He has also directed the Computer and Computation Research Division of the National Science Foundation. Before joining industry during the internet boom, he held several academic positions. He was Professor of Computer Sciences and Director of the Software Engineering Research Center at Purdue University. He also held major faculty positions at Georgia Tech where he was the founding director of the Software Research Center and a visiting professorship at the University of Padua in Padua, Italy. As Dean of the College of Computing he is the chief academic officer for one of the largest programs at Georgia Tech. Its graduate programs are typically ranked in the top ten by the US News and World Report’s biannual rankings of graduate schools. He is deeply immersed in the problem of creating a high-tech workforce that will be competitive in the new “flat world” created by the convergence of enabling technology and geo-political forces. His unique approach to these problems has garnered much attention nationally and globally. The author of over 100 articles, books and patents, Dr. DeMillo’s research has spanned computer science and includes innovation in computer networking. computer security, software engineering and mathematics. His present research interests are focused on information security. He is developing hardware-based architectures for trusted computing platforms and investigating methods for securing wireless communication services. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Computing Machinery.
Steven Dow I am a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing, a new degree program offered at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Ph.D. is an in-depth look at the methods for understanding and designing for cognitive and physical systems for people. My research focuses on the tools and practices used by creative individuals to explore applications in mixed reality, ubiquitous computing, and tangible interfaces. Enabling these technologies will lead to more natural work and play environments, off the desktop and in the physical world. Prior to my PhD work, I obtained a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Engineering from University of Iowa.
Fernando Flores Fernando Flores is a former Chilean cabinet minister during the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende who then spent three years as a political prisoner of General Pinochet. Released after negotiations of Amnesty International, he moved with his family to Palo Alto and began work as a researcher at Stanford University’s Computer Science department where he studied under the guidance of Hubert Dreyfus, Stuart Dreyfus, and John Searle. There he developed his work on philosophy, coaching, and workflow technology, influenced by Heidegger, Francisco Varela, Terry Winograd, and John Austin. He also obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. After that he founded several companies including Logonet, an educational company; Business Design Associates, a management consulting company; and Action Technologies, a software company, where he introduced new distinctions in workflow analysis, groupware, software design, and business process analysis. Some years ago, Flores returned to Chile and was elected to the Senate. Dr. Flores is currently a Senator of the Republic of Chile (2002-2010). He is president of the senate’s Special Commission for the Society of Information and Knowledge as well as a member of the senate’s Commission of Defense. He is the author of Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life; Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design (with Terry Winograd); Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity, and contributor to Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years, a special issue of the Communications of the ACM journal. Fernando is currently visiting the United States as director of Fundacion Pais Digital, an NGO whose mission is to foster the development and adoption of technology in Chile through the identification and application of innovative information and communication technologies. Fundacion Pais Digital strives to create opportunities involving academic, private and governmental sectors of Chile.
James D. Foley Dr. Foley is Professor in the College of Computing, and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned the Ph.D. in Computer Information and Control Engineering at the University of Michigan and the BSEE at Lehigh University, where he was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Dr. Foley first came to Georgia Tech in 1991 to establish the Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center, which in 1996 was ranked #1 by US News and World Report for graduate computer science work in graphics and user interaction. In 1996, he became director of Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab in Cambridge and then in 1998 chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric ITA, directing corporate R&D at four labs in North America. He returned to Georgia as Executive Director and then CEO of Yamacraw, Georgia's economic development initiative in the design of broadband systems, devices and chips. Dr. Foley is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE, an inaugural member of the ACM/CHI Academy, and recipient of the biannual ACM/SIGGRAPH Stephen Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics. The graphics textbooks he has co-authored are widely used and have been translated into six foreign languages. In 1992, the Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students named him, "most likely to make students want to grow up to be professors." In July 2001, Dr. Foley became chairman of the Computing Research Association - an organization of over 200 computer science and computer engineering university departments, professional societies and industrial research labs.
Andrea Forte Andrea Forte is Ph.D. candidate specializing in human-centered computing at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. Her current research focuses on written communities of discourse and social contexts for learning through writing. Andrea holds an MLIS from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (now School of Information) at University of Texas at Austin and a BA in foreign language and literature with a minor in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Ali Mazalek Dr. Mazalek is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a member of the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center. Her primary research interests include applications of emerging physical sensing and computer-interaction technologies to computational narrative systems and other applications in the media arts, entertainment and educational domains. In particular, her research explores how tangible interfaces and the intersection of physical/digital space can be applied to collaborative and multi-user interactions with media applications and environments. Current research projects include the design of tabletop interaction platforms for learning and gameplay. Her teaching in the Computational and Digital Media programs includes courses on experimental media, expressive computing and interaction design. Mazalek received her MS and PhD from the Tangible Media and Media Fabrics research groups at the MIT Media Lab in 2001 and 2005 respectively. She received a BS in computer science and mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1999.
Janet Murray Professor Janet H. Murray is an internationally recognized interactive designer, the director of Georgia Tech's Masters Degree Program in Information Design and Technology and Ph.D. in Digital Media, and a member of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary GVU Center. She is the author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (Free Press, 1997; MIT Press 1998), which has been translated into 5 languages, and is widely used as a roadmap to the coming broadband art, information, and entertainment environments. She is currently working on a textbook for MIT Press, Inventing the Medium: A Principled Approach to Interactive Design. In addition, she directs an eTV Prototyping Group, which has worked on interactive television applications for PBS, ABC, and other networks. She is also a member Georgia Tech's Experimental Game Lab. Murray has played an active role in the development of two new degree programs at Georgia Tech, both of which were launched in Fall 2004: the Ph.D. in Digital Media, and the B.S. in Computational Media. In spring 2000 Dr. Murray was named a Trustee of the American Film Institute, where she has also served as a mentor in the Enhanced TV Workshop a program of the AFI Digital Content Lab. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University, and before coming to Georgia Tech in 1999 taught humanities and led advanced interactive design projects at MIT. Murray’s primary fields of interest are digital media curricula, interactive narrative, story/games, interactive television, and large-scale multimedia information spaces. Her projects have been funded by IBM, Apple Computer, the Annenberg-CPB Project, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Jochen Rick Jochen Rick has an MS in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His doctoral research, in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, focuses on the role of personal home pages in academia. His broader research interests center on how new media can further learning.
Jose P. Zagal Jose P. Zagal is a PhD candidate at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include educational technologies, online communities, and game design. His doctoral dissertation work explores the creation of new knowledge about games in the context of a community where novice game studies scholars (ie. students) collaboratively build new knowledge about games. His work explores questions such as what kinds of scaffolding elements and strategies for participation can facilitate the meaningful participation of novices in an online knowledge-building community?, and how do novices leverage knowledge from their personal experiences with videogames to create abstract and more generalizable knowledge about the medium of videogames? Jose received a BS and MS in Civil Industrial Engineering and Engineering Sciences, respectively, from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in 1999. Prior to his doctoral studies, Jose served as director of content and community development at Virtualia.com, then Chile’s largest online community. He has also worked as an online community designer at Studiocom where he has developed a nascent online community called MiniEgo.com
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