Geoffrey Rockwell
Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is
a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and also a Fellow of the Alberta
Machine Intelligence Institute. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College,
an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and worked at the University
of Toronto as a Senior Instructional Technology
Specialist. From 1994 to 2008 he was at McMaster University where he was the Director of the Humanities Media and Computing
Centre (1994 - 2004). He has published and presented papers in the areas of artificial intelligence and ethics,
philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, humanities computing, instructional technology, computer games
and multimedia. He was the project leader for the CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation) funded project TAPoR, a Text
Analysis Portal for Research, which has developed a text tool discovery portal at tapor.ca. He
has published a book Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet with Humanity Books and a book titled
Hermeneutica (with Stéfan Sinclair) with MIT Press. This book is part of a hybrid text and tool project with Voyant, an award winning suite of analytical tools.
