IST Professional Development Seminar


Topic: A Writer's 40-Year Love-Hate Relationship with Waterloo Information Technology Date: Friday February 3 Time: 9:00 am to 9:45 am Room: MC 2009 Speaker: Chris Redmond Chris Redmond, the director of internal communications at the University of Waterloo, will be retiring this winter after 38 years editing the print Gazette and the online Daily Bulletin. He will talk about some of the people he has worked with, the continual changes in the university and its official communications, and technological progress including Igor the stand-alone typesetting machine, Volker-Craig terminals, the amazing arrival of Gopher, changing expectations of the Web, and why he's been on the wrong side of every technological argument since the day he got here.

Please note that this seminar was presented at WatITis 2011.