Craig Schock

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General Information about Craig Schock

  • I am focusing some of my attention to teaching Object-Oriented software development and Web application development in the OOST program (http://www.oost.ca) formerly at the University of Calgary (http://www.ucalgary.ca).
  • With the remainder of my work time, I am trying to re-implement many of the systems and architectures I developed over the last 10 years. I am planning to release the source code to this development effort under the GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).
  • I am president of Arctic Fox Computer Consulting Inc (http://www.afox.org). Arctic Fox is a company which provides software development consulting services. It specializes in web applications written in Java. I have been a software consultant since 1987.
  • Education: MSc and BSc from the Department of Computer Science (http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca) at the University of Calgary. Specialization: Human-Computer Interface
  • Teaching: I have been teaching since 1988 at Universities and in Industry. I have taught in many places throughout Canada and the United States. Not only does teaching help to keep me on my toes (I love being continually challenged by my students) but it is something I am truly passionate about.
  • Awards: 
1994	Governor General's Gold Medal
1999	Interop Infr@structure award (Telus Self Serve project)

Publications

Real-time articulatory speech-synthesis-by-rules (http://www.firethorne.com/papers/avios95/index.htm) with David R. Hill and Leonard Manzara.

Interests


  • Hiking: I live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. The Eastern slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains presents one with a lifetime of opportunities for the exploration and appreciation of raw natural beauty. Many tourists who come through Calgary are on their way to Banff National Park (http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/banff/default.asp) and/or Jasper National Park (http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/jasper/default.asp). These are beautiful places, but if you should happen to come through, don't forget about Kananaskis Country (http://www.kananaskis.org/). That's where most of the local people go.
  • Music: I love music. All kinds of music. Visit the web site of one of my all-time favorite bands www.artificialjoyclub.com. One of my life's goals is to dedicate a year of my life to piano. I've played for 30 years, but never really had the time to give 100% of myself to the pursuit of making music. What would I play in that year of music? Chopin mostly, but you might hear me play "Linus and Lucy" on occasion. :-)
    Since September, 2006, I have been a member of Calgary's Midnight Taiko Kai (http://www.midnight-taiko.com). If you don't know what Taiko is, it's those big-ass Japanese drums that people bang on to make a lot of noise!
  • Vegetarian Cooking. I love to cook. Many people have asked me to post my recipes. Coming from carnivores, I take this as quite the compliment :-) I will post recipes when I have the time to type them in. I tend to be very creative with my recipes; rather than saying "steam 6 c. potatoes", I will say "steam a bunch of potatoes". It adds a little adventure when you're not exactly sure how the result will turn out.
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