This July I step down as Assistant to the Dean for Computing at McMaster. It has been 10 years. When I arrived the computers were not networked, we had no web server, and no servers. Now the Humanities Computing Centre, now Humanities Media and Computing, runs 15 or more servers, has far too many web services and everything is networked.
At an Open House we celebrated Sam Cioran, who in the 1980s started the Centre moving us from language labs to multimedia computing. This July my colleague Andrew Mactavish takes over. If there is one thing that seems to work it is sustained attention – directing something for long enough to build a network, make mistakes, and correct them. I will miss directing the Centre.
McMaster Daily – NEW! Posted on May 31: Humanities celebrates past, present and future of multimedia