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Baglow
Brian Baglow
Brian Baglow founded and runs the independent communications agency Indoctrimat. Prior to this Brian has had a long and casually notorious career in the marketing wing of the interactive, online and mobile industries.
Before founding Indoctrimat, Brian worked as Global Communications Manager for Digital Bridges (now I-Play). Working for a pioneering company in an emergent industry, a major part of Brian’s task was initially to educate the media about the possibilities and realities of the mobile entertainment sector. This was a huge success as everyone in the world now loves mobile games. Brian continues to work in this area out of spite.
Previous roles include: UK PR Manager at Take 2 Interactive, one of the world’s fastest growing videogame publishers and 3 years in Propaganda and Indoctrination at DMA Design Ltd. At DMA, Brian convinced the media that DMA was unique, precious, special and sexy. He worked on titles such as Grand Theft Auto, Space Station: Silicon Valley and Body Harvest, writing the background story, plot, dialogue, song lyrics, unreal band names, fake companies and actual manuals.
He admits to having an unhealthy obsession with computer games, the latest mobile phones, comics, consoles and his Wii Sports fitness score (25).
Bradshaw
Simon Bradshaw
Simon Bradshaw, Postgraduate student, University of Edinburgh. Formerly an engineer in the RAF, with degrees in electronics and satellite communications engineering, Simon studied law with the Open University and went on to specialise in intellectual property and IT law at the University of Edinburgh. He iscurrently undertaking the Bar Vocational Course.
Burn
Dr Andrew Burn
Andrew is Reader in Education and New Media in the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education. He teaches on the MA in Media, Culture & Communication, supervises research students, and works on funded research projects in the field of media and young people.
He has published work on many aspects of the media, including the use of horror films in schools, young people’s production work with digital equipment, and the semiotics of computer games.
He is interested in the adaptation of theories of multimodality to describe and analyse media texts, and has published a research methods book developing this approach, with Dr David Parker, Head of Research at the British Film Institute.
He has previously taught English, Drama and Media Studies in comprehensive schools for over twenty years. He has been a Head of English and an Assistant Principal at his last school, Parkside Community College in Cambridge, where his main role was to direct the school’s media arts specialism: it was the first specialist Media Arts College in the country.
Camp
Professor Bryan T. Camp
Bryan is Professor of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law and admitted to practice in Virginia.
After earning his J.D. and M.A., Professor Camp clerked for the Honorable John P. Wiese of what is now called the Court for Federal Claims. He worked on tax, takings, and government contract cases. Then, as an Assistant County Attorney for Arlington, Virginia, he experienced the myriad delights of providing legal counsel to a local government, ranging from litigating various civil matters to practicing what he likes to call “transactional constitutional law.” Professor Camp left public service briefly to work as an associate in a small Washington D.C. firm. There he divided his time between commercial law, contract law, and estate planning.
After earning his LL.M., Professor Camp returned to public service as a Senior Docket Attorney in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel’s National Office in Washington, D.C. There he spent eight years delving into the details of subtitle F of the Internal Revenue Code and the subtleties of the Bankruptcy Code, dispensing advice to IRS field attorneys across the country and helping devise appropriate responses to adverse judicial opinions. In 1997 and 1998 Professor Camp was privileged to be a fly on the wall when Congress ground out the Internal Revenue Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (the RRA). He participated in the IRS efforts to affect that legislation. After the RRA’s enactment, Professor Camp led the regulatory response to one of the most complicated of the RRA provisions. The resulting proposed regulation was published in the Federal Register on January 2, 2001. During his tenure at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, Professor Camp received numerous awards, the last one being the 2000 Attorney of the Year for the General Litigation Division.
Since joining Texas Tech, Professor Camp has lectured and written on bankruptcy law and has also written in the areas of tax law, statutory interpretation, constitutional law, and jurisprudence. He is the author of over 23 published articles and treatise chapters, plus numerous shorter works. Since June 2004 he has written 13 articles on tax administration law and policy for Tax Notes, the premier national publication devoted solely to tax issues. In addition, his long-standing and continuing interest in United States legal intellectual history and social history is reflected in his selection to participate in the 2003 Supreme Court Historical Society’s summer seminar and in scholarly presentations before the New York Historical Society and Haverford College.
Professor Camp is currently Chair of the Committee on Individual and Family Taxation of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section. He is frequently invited to present at CLE functions; currently he prepares materials for and presents at two to four CLE meetings per year.
Cassidy
Dr Gianna Cassidy
Dr Gianna Cassidy is a Music Psychologist and Singer-Songwriter, currently lecturing in Psychology of Music and Interactive Entertainment Design at Glasgow Caledonian University. Gianna joined the Psychology Department in 2003 having gained an MA Honours in Psychology and Music at Glasgow University. Her PhD, supervised by Professor Raymond MacDonald and Dr Christina Knussen, focused on the role and function of music in driving game performance and experience. In March 2007, Gianna moved to the school of Computing and Engineering continuing her research in the eMotion Lab. This work has been presented internationally, most recently at The International Digital Games Research Association Conference Vancouver 2006/Tokyo 2007, the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco 2007, and the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition Chicago 2004/Bologna 2006/Soporro 2008. Her active research interests include the role and function of music in interactive technology experience, the role of creative technology in musical identities, the process of composing for games, and music and exergaming.
Chazerand
Patrice Chazerand
Patrice is Secretary General, Interactive Software Federation of Europe. Patrice Chazerand has held the position of secretary general of the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE) since 2002.
The first fifteen years of his career were spent with France’s foreign ministry, six of which at the French embassy to the United States. In 1989, he was hired by AT&T France as director, public affairs, in the run-up to the opening of European telecommunications markets. In 1999, he moved to Brussels to establish and run the European office of Viacom, the mother company of Paramount, MTV, CBS, etc.
Coyne
Richard Coyne
Richard Coyne researches and teaches in the areas of information technology in practice, computer-aided design in architecture, the philosophy of information technology, multimedia in design, digital media, and design theory. He inaugurated the MSc in Design and Digital Media, in which he also teaches.
He is author of several books on the implications of information technology and design with MIT Press and Routledge. His research has been supported by AHRC, EPSRC and SCRAN.
Member of the AHRC review panel: Visual Arts and Media (practice, history and theory)
Member of the RAE Architecture and Built Environment subpanel
Member of the editorial board of arq: Architectural Research Quarterly (pending)
He is a registered architect (Australia), and previously worked at the University of Sydney and in Melbourne. Richard was Head of Department from 1999 to 2002 and is currently Director of the Graduate School of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment.
Davis
Dick Davis
Dick is Executive Producer with Ambient Performance. Dick has led the way in innovation in technology supported learning in both corporate and academic organisations for over 20 years.
In his academic career he was responsible for founding the first UK government funded centre for online learning and for providing the networked services for the first online MBA programme in Europe. On moving to the corporate world he worked in internet corporate venturing. As the former Head of Integrated Learning for Cable & Wireless he latterly had global responsibility for e-Learning including the implementation of global online MBA and MSc programmes. Founding the Online Courseware Factory in 1999 with other leading online learning experts he was responsible for a range of large government and corporate projects. Dick is the Editor of SeriousGamesEurope.com and is actively working on projects in serious mobile gaming.
Edwards
Professor Lillian Edwards
Lilian is Chair of Internet Law at the University of Edinburgh.
Since the dawn of the commercial Internet in 1996, Lillian’s principal research interest has been in the law relating to the Internet, the Web and new technologies, with a European and comparative focus. Lillian has co-edited two bestselling collections on Law and the Internet (Hart Publishing) with Charlotte Waelde, and her third collection of essays The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe was published by Hart in December 2005. Lillian’s work in on-line consumer privacy won the Barbara Wellbery Memorial Prize in 2004 for the best solution to the problem of privacy and transglobal data flows.
Francis
Chris Francis
Chris is with IBM Government programmes and is an innovation advocate specialising on regulatory and policy issues affected by technology change and market shifts.
Previously Chris served in multiple roles in industrial policy for the Department of Trade and Industry – including Innovation support for key business technologies, sector sponsorship for software and IT service, competitiveness and environmental issu es. Chris has a mathematics background with an industrial based PhD in computer control for energy efficiency jointly working with EA technology and UMIST. Prior to that Chris was attached to the National Physical Laboratory and Chemicals and Biotechnol ogy Innovation support for DTI. Chris also served briefly as a software developer for Ministry of Defence’s Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment.
