Biographies

Bryan Alexander - Presenter & Workshop Leader

Director of Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, where he researches the advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts colleges. A PhD graduate of the University of Michigan, he taught English and information technology studies as faculty at Centenary College of Louisiana. His primary research interests concern mobile and wireless computing, digital gaming, and social software. Other interests include digital writing, copyright and intellectual property, information literacy, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He maintains and contributes to a series of weblogs, including NITLE Liberal Arts Today and Smartmobs. Committed to exploring computer-mediated pedagogy, he continues to research and write on the critical uses of computers and teaching in terms of interdisciplinary liberal arts and the contemporary development of cyberculture.

Dan Cohen - Presenter

Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of Research Projects at the Center for History and New Media. His research is in European and American intellectual history, the history of science (particularly mathematics), and the intersection of history and computing.  He is co-author of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), author of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), and has published articles and book chapters on the history of mathematics and religion, the teaching of history, and the future of history in a digital age in journals such as the Journal of American History, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Rethinking History. At the Center for History and New Media he has co-directed the September 11 Digital Archive and the Echo project, and has developed software tools for scholars, teachers, and students.

Raymond Yee - Presenter

Technology Architect for the Interactive University at the University of California Berkeley.  He has been involved in software development for over fifteen years, working in areas ranging from image processing, cellular and protein simulation, web services, statistical educational software and online community development.  He received a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 and a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science (Physics Option) from the University of Toronto. While earning his Ph.D., he also taught computer science, philosophy, and personal development to K-11 students in the Academic Talent Development Program on the Berkeley campus.  Raymond is also a lecturer in the School of Information at UC Berkely, where he teaches the course "Mixing and Remixing Information." He has a weblog on information technology architecture and other topics that catch his fancy.