Karen Kocher

Lecturer, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Derek Lackaff

Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, Radio-Television-Film

Derek Lackaff is a Lecturer in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow working with the UT Austin|Portugal project in Digital Media. His research focuses on social media, social network analysis and methodologies, and the social psychology of communication technology use. His research has been published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and elsewhere. He is interested in cross-disciplinary approaches to new media research, and looks forward to helping Portugal project participants develop collaborative research agendas.

RTF page

+1 512-471-5826

Richard Lewis

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Richard Lewis has worked as an editor, producer, director, and/or writer for companies including National Geographic Television, Channel 4 (UK), A&E, PBS, Sierra Club Productions, and Devillier-Donegan Enterprises. Most recently, he worked on The Living Weapon, an episode of American Experience for PBS. His last production, Chimp Rescue, premiered on National Geographic Explorer and won a Genesis Award for Best Cable Documentary. Richard primarily teaches producing and screenwriting.

Geoff Marslett

Lecturer, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Pedro Medeiros

Associate Professor of Informatics, FCT/UNL

Homepage: http://asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~pm/
Phone: +351 21 294 85 36 Ext. 10738

Mónica Mendes

PhD student, Digital Media

Assistant at the Multimedia Arts degree of the University of Lisbon [FBA/UL]

Mónica Mendes has a Masters in Multimedia Educational Communication, degree in Communication Design. She is a member of the CIEAM Research Center on Interactive Environments, and an altLab member on experimentation in alternative media. Additionally, she developed projects as a free-lancer, as a designer at Atelier B2, and as an interface design consultant.

PhD Abstract: RTiVISS – Real-Time Video Interactive Systems for Sustainability – proposes innovative ways of conceiving both digital media arts and cutting edge environmentally sustainable practices through critical research and experimental approaches. Multiplatform devices will provide access to real-time networked video for users to "adopt" selected forests. The interactive system feeds a broad community sharing “the emotion of real-time” and the challenge of uncertainty, remotely monitoring natural environments for forests protection and aesthetic exploration. Assuming this surveillance metaphor, can we design a project that is both artistic and functional?

Homepage: www.monicamendes.info

Steve Mims

Lecturer, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Austin filmmaker Steve Mims’ award-winning short films have screened widely in festivals and on television, and he has extensive experience in writing, directing and editing. The New York Times' Vincent Canby called his film AUNT HALLIE "A treasure...which belongs on everybody's list of the top ten funniest films ever made." His feature film THE PERFECT SPECIMEN premiered at SXSW and on SHOWTIME. His music videos include work for Webb Wilder, Stephen Bruton, Los Straitjackets, the Austin Lounge Lizards, and Billy Joe Shaver and have aired on MORE MUSIC, TNN, CMT, GAC, CMT EUROPE, M2 and MTV. Mims’ newest short film, HONORARIUM, premieres at SXSW 2010. He is currently working on a feature length documentary.

Mims completed his graduate work in film at the University of Texas in 1987, and his teaching career spans over two decades.

Departmental page: http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/smims.html

Personal page: http://www.stevemimsfilms.com/

Bruce Pennycook

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film; Professor of Composition, Butler School of Music

Keshav Pingali

Professor of Computer Sciences

Homepage: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pingali/
Phone: +1 512-232-6567

Russell Pinkston

Professor of Composition, Butler School of Music

Director, Electronic Music Studios

Russell Pinkston, Professor of Composition, Director, Electronic Music Studios, holds degrees in music composition from Dartmouth College (BA) and Columbia University (MA, DMA). He has written music in a wide variety of different media, ranging from concert works and sacred anthems to computer generated tape pieces and live electronic music for dance. His compositions have been played throughout Europe, South America and the United States, including recent performances by such noted ensembles as the Smith Quartet (London), the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, and the Danish Royal Ballet Company. Dr. Pinkston has received numerous awards for his compositions, including two prizes from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a senior Fulbright Fellowship in Composition and Computer Music to Brazil. Dr. Pinkston is also active in computer music research. His work in the area of real-time performance interfaces for modern dance has recently attracted international attention, leading to interviews on BBC radio and NPR, as well as a feature article in New Scientist magazine. Dr. Pinkston’s music is recorded on Boston Skyline, Centaur, Finnadar, Folkways, and Summit Records and published by Galaxy Music, E. C. Schirmer, and Columbia University Press.

Personal page

Electronic Music Studios

The University of Texas at Austin
School of Music
1 University Station, E3100
Austin, TX 78712-0435

Cristina Ponte

Professor, Department of Communication Science, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Computers in primary education, representation of children in news

Homepage:  http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/deps/ciencias-da-comunicacao/docentes/cristina-ponte

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Av. de Berna, 26-C

1069-061 Lisboa

Portugal

Phone: 351 21 790 83 23

Alberto José Proença

Professor of Computer Science

Alberto Proença is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Universidade do Minho. He led the University Computer Center for several years and now leads the HPC facilities at the University. His main interests are on Computer Architecture and Scalar Heterogeneous Computing.

Personal page

Tom Schatz

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film; Executive Director, University of Texas Film Institute

Tom Schatz lectures widely on American film and television in the U.S. and abroad, and he has delivered talks and conducted seminars for the Motion Picture Academy, the Directors Guild of America, the American Film Institute and the Los Angeles Film School. Schatz also is engaged in media production, has consulted and provided on-screen commentary for a number of film and television documentaries. Current publishing projects include a study of contemporary Hollywood and a revised edition of his book Hollywood Genres.

Nancy Schiesari

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Adélia Sequeira

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Division of Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis IST

Mathematical analysis and numerical methods for partial differential equations, with applications in fluid mechanics; numerical Analysis of finite elements, boundary elements and meshless methods for the Stokes and the Navier-Stokes equations; mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of inelastic and viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluid models of differential and rate type in bounded and unbounded domains and in straight and curved pipes; mathematical and numerical models in haemodynamics and haemorheolog

Homepage:  http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~asequeir/
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049-001 Lisboa,
Portugal
Phone: 351 218 41 70 73

Luís Silva

Associate Professor of Informatics Engineering

Homepage: http://cisuc.dei.uc.pt/sse/view_member.php?id_m=227

João Luís Ferreira Sobral

Professor, Informatics Department, U.Minho

Parallel computing (design of scalable applications, run-time systems, GRID computing, skeletons); object oriented programming and aspect-oriented programming (object design patterns and aspect), computer architecture (super-scalar architectures, multi-core, multithreaded support, virtual machine support), computer vision (wavelet processing for inline automatic inspection)

Homepage: http://www.di.uminho.pt/~jls/
Universidade do Minho
Campus Gualtar
4710 - 057 Braga
Portugal
Phone: 351 25 360 44 59 (ext. 4459 or 4439)

Joseph D. Straubhaar

Professor, Radio-Television-Film

Professor Joseph D. Straubhaar’s primary teaching, research and writing interests are in global media, international communication and cultural theory, information societies and the digital divide in the U. S. and other countries, and global television production and flow. His graduate teaching includes media theory, global media, comparative media systems, international telecommunications systems, Latin American media, and research methods. His undergraduate teaching covers the same range plus introduction to mass communication and the information society. He does research in Brazil, other Latin America countries, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has taken student groups to Latin America and Asia. He has done seminars abroad on media research, television programming strategies, and telecommunications privatization

Homepage: http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/jstraubhaar.html
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Radio-TV-Film
1 University Station A0800
Austin, TX 78712-0108
USA
Phone: 001 512 471 5304
 

Sharon Strover

Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio-Television-Film; director, Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute (TIPI)

Current research projects include examinations of telecommunications networks and policies, telecommunications infrastructure in rural regions, the "digital divide," and telehealth networks. The topics of some recently completed work include an assessment of Internet connectivity in four states, an assessment of the local and state roles in developing telecommunications infrastructure, Internet content standards for children, as well as a study looking at how several industrialized countries have sought to become Information Societies, with a special focus on deregulation tools.

Homepage: http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/sstrover.html

University of Texas at Austin

Department of Radio-TV-Film

1 University Station A0800

Austin, TX 78712-0108

USA

Phone: +1 512 471 6652

José Miguel Urbano

Professor, Director of Mathematics, Univ.Coimbra

Nonlinear partial differential equations; free boundary problems

Homepage: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~jmurb/
Departamento de Matemática
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra
3001-454 Coimbra
Portugal
Phone: 351 239 79 11 33