This document is the letter of intent submitted by the LINCS network to
Industry Canada relating to a submission to the Federal Government's Network
of Centres of Excellence program. The major research deliverable will be a
working prototype of a learning layer built on the information highway that
will support:
- development of dynamic learning materials by distributed teams responsive
to changing national needs,
- delivery of learning materials through interactive, multimedia learning
environments supporting cooperation and simulation,
- universal access to a user-friendly lifelong learning environment, and
- institutional, industrial and government infrastructures with the
experience to develop significant large-scale applications.
We hope that
the dissemination of this information on the web will allow other potential
contributors to LINCS to become aware of the network and become involved in its
activities.
Dr. Brian Gaines is Killam Memorial Research Professor and Director of the
Knowledge Science Institute at The University of Calgary. His previous
positions include Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of
Toronto, Technical Director and Deputy Chairman of the Monotype Corporation,
and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering Science at the
University of Essex. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Trinity
College, Cambridge, and is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Psychologist, and a
Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, British Computer Society and
British Psychological Society.
He is Editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and
Knowledge Acquisition, and of the Computers and People and Knowledge-Based
Systems book series. He is the author of over 400 papers, and has authored or
edited 12 books on a wide variety of aspects of computer and human systems. His
research interests include: the socio-economic dynamics of science and
technology; the nature, acquisition and transfer of knowledge; software
engineering for heterogeneous systems; and the systematic acceleration of
scientific research through computer-mediated collaboration.
Knowledge Science Institute Phone: (403) 220-5901
The University of Calgary Fax: (403) 284-4707
2500 University Drive N.W. email: gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Calgary, Alberta
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