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William (Bill) Buxton

Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research

Bill is the author of, Sketching User Experiences:  Getting the Design Right and the Right Design.  A Principal Researcher at MSR, he has a 30 year involvement in research, design and commentary around human aspects of technology.  He was a researcher at Xerox PARC, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc. He has been awarded three honourary doctorates, is co-recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, received an ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a Fellow of the ACM. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto and Distinguished Professor of Industrial Design at the Technical University Eindhoven. 

Seth Cooper

Creative Director, Centre for Game Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington


Seth Cooper is interested in using video games to solve difficult real-world problems. He is chief architect and lead designer of Foldit, a video game which has allowed over 100,000 players to contribute to biochemical scientific research. He has also developed several game technologies for real-time crowd simulation and character control that have been licensed by game companies. 

David Dill

Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Stanford University





David L. Dill is a Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He has an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979), and an M.S and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University (1982 and 1987).

Prof. Dill has research interests in a variety of areas, including computational systems biology and the theory and application of formal verification techniques to system designs, including hardware, protocols, and software. He has also done research in asynchronous circuit verification and synthesis, and in verification methods for hard real-time systems. Since 2003, Prof. Dill has been working actively on policy issues in voting technology. He is the author of the "Resolution on Electronic Voting", which calls for a voter-verifiable audit trail on all voting equipment, and which has been endorsed by thousands of people, including many of the top computer scientists in the U.S.

Chad Gaffield

President
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(SSHRC)




Chad Gaffield, one of Canada’s foremost historians, was appointed president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) in September 2006. His appointment followed a 20-year career at the University of Ottawa, during which he held a University Research Chair and various other positions, including founding director of the Institute of Canadian Studies. He has won many awards for his teaching, research and innovations related to computer-based, interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration.

Chad Gaffield, un des plus éminents historiens du Canada, a été nommé président du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) en septembre 2006. Avant, il menait depuis 20 ans une carrière à l’Université d’Ottawa, où il a occupé une chaire de recherche et a été directeur fondateur de l’Institut d’études canadiennes. Il s’est également vu décerner de nombreux prix pour son enseignement sa recherche ainsi que ses théories et ses méthodes novatrices résultant d’une collaboration informatique interdisciplinaire et multi-institutionnelle.