Ron Baecker

Author: Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do (2021)

Founder and Director Emeritus, TAGlab

ron@taglab.ca
https://ronbaecker.com/

Additionally:
Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Toronto
Founder, Knowledge Media Design institute
Co-founder, Dynamic Graphics Project

Ron's recent books include Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives (OUP, 2019). 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, has been given the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award and a Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award, has been named an ACM Fellow, and was recently awarded a CHI2020 Social Impact Award. He is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He is the Founding Editor of the Synthesis Lectures on Technology and Health (Springer Nature, Publisher).

For information on his recent books, and on the virtual community computers-society.org, see https://ronbaecker.com/

Photo by Louis Fabian Bachrach.