2009 issue of Informed is available

The 2009 issue of Inforumed, the alumni magazine of the Faculty of Information (University of Toronto), is now available. I wrote some of the short articles for this issue as a member of the Alumni Association. I am excited by some of the research happening there and appreciate that the magazine offers a venue to connect with some of these projects. You can access the high-resolution PDF of the magazine online for free. The person pictured on the front cover of the magazine, shown above, is Professor Matt Ratto who has created a “Critical Making” class. I didn’t take that class as a student, but it definately looks creative and interesting. As I understand it, part of the class involves creating physical items to manifest abstract concepts (e.g. one assignment was to create “an ethical machine” and I gather that somebody made a STOP traffic sign as a result).

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