Jonathan Schull Associate Professor Information Technology Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology and Art Re-envisions Technology 70-2535 jis @ it . rit . edu  585.738.6696 blog at http://jonschull.blogspot.com Research Interests:  Human Computer Interfaces, Assistive Technology, Information Visualization, Social Network Analysis, Computer Mediated Art and Experience Creative Conspiracy for Cross Campus Collaboration Current Courses: 4002-426 Interface Design 4002-718 Current Themes in IT 4004-860 Innovation, Invention and Improvisation

         not-so Recent bio: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_spkr/1017

Biological Psychologist, Experimentalist, Educator, and Scholar 

·        Associate Professor of Information Technology at RIT

·         B.A.  Reed College 1975

·         Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1980

·         Associate Editor, Journal of General Evolution

·         Professor of Biological Psychology, Haverford College 1980-1992 (with tenure)

·         Research:  Biological Rhythms, Information Visualization, Animal Behavior
and Metacognition, Complex Adaptive Systems (nervous systems,
species, groups, enterprises, internets, societies); Pervasive Computing

·         Academic CV

Founder, President, Chief Scientist SoftLock.com / Digital Goods
(1992-June 2002)

·         Founder (in 1992) and Chief Scientist (through 2001)  SoftLock.com and Digital Goods (NASDAQ: DIGS; key players in Steven King’s e-publication of Riding the Bullet during the Great E-book Boom of 1999; doors closed in May 2001)

·         Author of seminal patent on Digital Rights Management / Information Economy US 5,509,070 on “superdistribution”—copyright protection through copy-encouragement and e-commerce, (filed 1992, issued 1996).

·         Information Tracking patent US 6,266,654 (filed 1996, issued 2001) on detection, analysis, and exploitation of “software lineages” produced when digital objects such as files and messages are reproduced and redistributed.

·         “Adapting Software” patent () discloses methods by which commercial and other software products can be made to mutate and adapt through “natural selection”
as they proliferate through information ecologies.

·         Other patents pending

·         Macroscope Manifesto: New Approaches to Information Visualization

                   http://radio.weblogs.com/0104369/stories/2002/04/09/macroscope022702.htm

Consultant, Strategic Adviser, and Public Speaker
(May 2001 to present)

·         For SoftLock.com:  marketing Intellectual Property for SoftLock.com’s stakeholders

·         For marketing and research firms:  data visualization and analysis

·         For Standards / Trade Organization activities (OEBF, MPG, etc)
Author of the Open Ebook Forum’s ontology document,   “Framework for an E-publishing Ecology.”  
http://www.openebook.org/framework/A%20Framework%20for%20the%20Epublishing%20Ecology.doc

·         For technology entrepreneurs: strategies for business development

·         For community technology activists:  wireless internet deployment strategy

Current projects

·       Lightweight Immersive Interaction Systems

·       Wireless Internet technologies

·       Deafness and Emerging Technologies

·       Information visualization and tracking; social network analysis

·       Information Technology as a Liberal Art