{"id":2,"date":"2009-02-22T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:37:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"

About me: I’m\u00a0a professor of computer science<\/a> at the University of Toronto<\/a>. Stuff about my work (bio, publications etc) can be found on my U of T webpages<\/a>. Stuff I think is worthy of a photo can be found on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I started this blog because, after many years doing research in software engineering, I’m redirecting my research to address the challenge of climate change (here’s why<\/a>). I’m hoping the blog will help me document the journey.<\/p>\n

My challenge is to find ways to apply the knowledge and skills I already have (i.e. in software research) to the climate change challenge. And to persuade as many of my colleagues as possible to do the same. I figure that software technology is a crucial part of the picture, from the computational models built by climate scientists to understand climate systems, through to the information and control systems needed to drive a zero-carbon global society. I figure that all this stuff about living a greener life and cutting personal emissions is all very well, but distracts us from the potentially much larger contribution people with specialist knowledge and skills can make.<\/p>\n

I started by studying the software development practices of climate scientists<\/a>, to see what contribution I can make there. I’m planning more studies like this. In parallel, I’m organising workshops<\/a> to get more software researchers engaged in the challenge. This is a work in progress…<\/p>\n

I’m being helped in this challenge by a wonderful group of students at U of T. Take a look at their blogs to see what they’re up to:\u00a0Ainsley Lawson<\/a>;\u00a0Alicia Grubb<\/a>;\u00a0Brent Mombourquette<\/a>;\u00a0Carolyn MacLeod<\/a>;\u00a0Jon Pipitone<\/a>; Jonathan Lung<\/a>;\u00a0Jorge Aranda<\/a>;\u00a0Maria Yancheva<\/a>;\u00a0Samar (Summer) Sabie<\/a>;\u00a0Sarah Strong<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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