People : Collaborators
Kevin Judd
Kevin
Judd is Professor in the School of Mathematics and
Statistics at the University of Western Australia. Kevin
is a mathematician who works in the area of dynamical systems theory,
optimization and computer aided teaching. He is the computer programmer
who developed Systemics
1.0, software for linguistic analysis of text.
Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich is a Professor at the Visual Arts Department, University of California - San Diego (UCSD) where he teaches practical courses in digital art as well as history ad theory of digital culture. He also directs the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2), and he is also Visiting Research Professor at Godsmith College (London), De Montfort University (UK) and College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (Sydney).
His books include Software Takes Command (released under CC license, 2008), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." He has written 90+ articles which have been reprinted over 300 times in 30+ countries.
Theo van Leeuwen
Theo
van Leeuwen is Professor and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is one
of the top international researchers in multimodal social semiotics,
and he has written many books and articles on critical discourse
analysis, visual communication and multimodality. His most recent
books are Introducing Social Semiotics (Routledge, 2005)
and Global Media Discourse with David Machin (Routledge,
2007). Theo is the founder and editor for the journal Visual
Communication, and he has also worked as a film and television
producer, scriptwriter and director. Theo van Leeuwen provides
direction for the semiotic modelling and multimodal analysis of the
images, video texts and interactive digital sites, especially in
relation to the spoken language, music and sound tracks, and the
visual imagery.
Peter Wignell
Peter
Wignell is Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of English Language
and Literature at the National University of Singapore. Peter has a
PhD in Linguistics from the University of Sydney. He also has a Master
of Arts (Applied Linguistics) from Macquarie University and a Bachelor
of Arts (Honours) from the University of Sydney. Peter’s specialties
are Systemic Functional Linguistics and multisemiotic discourse analysis
using a Hallidayan framework. Among Peter’s research interests are:
the application of linguistics to language and literacy education, the
role of language in the construction of specialized knowledge and the
relationships between text and images in multisemiotic texts. Peter’s
most current research has been into the roles of images and text in
children’s picture books.
Roger Zimmermann
Roger
Zimmermann is Associate Professor in the School of Computing,
National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree in
Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los
Angeles. His research activities focus on streaming media architectures,
peer-to-peer systems, immersive environments, collaborative large-scale
group communications, and mobile location-based services. Roger Zimmermann
has co-authored a book, two patents and more than eighty conference
publications, journal articles and book chapters in the areas of
multimedia and databases.
Roger Zimmerman is Co-Principal Investigator for the Events in the World project and he provides direction and support for computer science research team in the Multimodal Analysis Lab. In addition, Roger Zimmermann will oversee the technical development of the multimodal analysis software.
