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

Luís Nunes Vicente

Associate Professor of Mathematics, U. Coimbra

Homepage: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~lnv/
Phone: +351 23 979 11 71 x321

Craig Watkins

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; Associate Professor, Center for African American Studies

S. Craig Watkins has been researching young people's media behaviors for more than ten years. His new book, The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future (Beacon 2009), is based on survey research, in-depth interviews, and fieldwork with teens, young twenty-somethings, teachers, parents, and technology advocates. While writing this book Watkins fully immersed himself in what he calls the "digital trenches," to see up close how young people learn, play, bond, communicate, and engage in civic life in the digital age. Watkins participated in the MacArthur Foundation Series on Youth, Digital Media and Learning. His work on this groundbreaking project focused on race, learning, and the growing culture of gaming. He has been invited to be a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford). Currently, Watkins is launching a new digital media research initiative that focuses on the use and evolution of social media platforms. For updates on these and other projects visit theyoungandthedigital.com.

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

University of Texas at Austin

Department of Radio-TV-Film

1 University Station A0800

Austin, TX 78712-0108

USA

001 512 471 6676