Profile/Biographies/Faculty

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This page contains faculty and staff biographies, intended for reuse in publications, press releases, and so forth. Please add to and update this page as needed.

For each person, please include:

• A short biography (<50 words)
• A longer biography (100-200 words)
• Links to current and past CDOT projects
• Headshots (photos)

David Humphrey

Short

David Humphrey is a professor in the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College. His teaching and research focus on open web standards, web browser architecture, and open source development practices, with a special focus on the development and creation of multimedia web standards and technologies. He is also a long time contributor and developer with the Mozilla project, working on the Firefox web browser. David works closely with the Mozilla Foundation on educational projects, and is the Foundation's Educational Liaison.

Headshots

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11280278@N04/2234888165/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Catherine Leung

Short

Catherine Leung is a professor at Seneca College. She works for the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT). Her main research focus has to do with 3D and gaming in the browser. Her projects include c3DL, motionview, Turtlesback and Dragon Genetics.

Chris Tyler

Short

Chris Tyler is the Industrial Research Chair Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms at the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College, and an active participant in several open source communities. His current research is focused on enabling open source software for new, energy-efficient 64-bit ARM hyperscale server systems.

Long

Chris Tyler is the Industrial Research Chair Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms (IRCC-OSTEP) in the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College. He is a long-term contributor to the Fedora Project and has served two terms on Fedora's board. He is the author of two books, X Power Tools and Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution (O'Reilly), a founding member of CDOT, and has participated in (and occasionally chaired) the Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) since its inception in 2002. In order to promote the teaching of open source concepts and principles, he founded TeachingOpenSource.org and was one of the original curriculum authors for the Professor's Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE).

Chris' current research focuses on bringing open source software to energy-efficient ARM computers. This work spans the computing spectrum from the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix, a software environment for the revolutionary $35 Raspberry Pi computer, to software for hyperscale 64-bit ARM systems which will power tomorrow's data centres while consuming a fraction of the space and power of existing technologies.

Project Links

• CDOT - http://cdot.senecac.on.ca
• Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix - http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi_Fedora_Remix
• Fedora ARM at Seneca - http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_ARM_Secondary_Architecture
• Fedora ARM at Fedora - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM

Headshots

• http://england.proximity.on.ca/chris/graphics/ctyler.jpg

Evan Weaver

Long

Evan Weaver is a Chair of the School of Information and Communications Technology at Seneca College. He is one of the co-founders of Seneca's Centre for Development of Open Technology, and is the administrator of record for research projects taking place in the Centre. Under his guidance, the Centre has grown from an association of like-minded faculty to a formal research facility with significant industry involvement and funding from agencies such as NSERC, Canadian Heritage, FedDev and OCE.