Hosted by Dr. Gus Craik
Rotman Rounds - R. Baecker: Technology for Cognition: Towards the Design of Electronic Cognitive Prostheses

Presenter:
Dr. Ron Baecker

Location:
Baycrest
Brain Health Complex
8th Floor
Room 842

Ronald Baecker is Professor of Computer Science, Bell University Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, and founder and Chief Scientist of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto.  He is Affiliate Scientist with the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit of Baycrest, Adjunct Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and was during the first half of 2006 on academic leave as Visiting Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.  Baecker is also Principal Investigator of the CDN$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 (Computers and Human Interaction) Academy by ACM SIGCHI, and has been awarded the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award and the Leadership Award of Merit from the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network  (ORION).
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