Industrial Research Chair, Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms
Centre for Development of Open Technology, Seneca College
Contact information:
- e chris.tyler@senecacollege.ca - By far the best way to contact me! (Students: please put your course ID in the subject line)
- t @chris_tyler
Random info about me...
- Industrial Research Chair in Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms at the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) from 2011-2023
- Professor in the School of Software Design and Data Science at Seneca College, Toronto
- Linux fanatic, especially Fedora
- X11 fanatic
- Former member of the Fedora Project Board (F10-F11, F13-F14)
- Does programming, consulting, writing, 3D printing, and electronics as hobbies and side gigs
- Lives in Toronto; married with two grown daughters
- Has lived in Toronto, Vaughan, Waterloo, Muskoka, and Woodstock, Ontario; Victoria, BC; and Calgary and Standard, Alberta
- Enjoys camping, biking, baking, cooking, photography -- but doesn't have enough time to do much of those things these days
- Has helped organized Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) in various ways since its inception in 2002
- Has programmed for a living in 28+ languages (including: 6502, 6809, and ARM assembler, Multics PL/1, C, C++, FoxPro, Perl, Python)
- Author of Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution (O'Reilly 2006) and X Power Tools (O'Reilly 2007)
- Tweets as @chris_tyler