Prof. Ronald Baecker

onald Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell Universities Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, and Founder, Founding Director, Chief scientist, and Interim Director of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. He is also Affiliate Scientist with the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit of Baycrest (formerly, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care), Adjunct Scientist with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and Principal Investigator of the $5.5M Canada-wide NSERC Network for Effective Collaboration Technologies through Advanced Research (NECTAR). He has been named one of the 60 Pioneers of Computer Graphics by ACM SIGGRAPH, has been elected to the CHI Academy by ACM SIGCHI, and has been given the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award in May 2005. His B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. are from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Baecker is an active researcher, lecturer, and consultant on human-computer interaction and user interface design, user support, software visualization, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work and learning, the Internet, entrepreneurship and strategic planning in the software industry, and the role of information technology in business. He has published over 125 papers and articles on topics in these areas. He is also the author or co-author of two published videotapes and of four books.