Ronald M. Baecker
Author, Professor Emeritus, Organizer and Chair of Computers-Society.org
An internationally recognized innovator, author, speaker, teacher, and mentor, Ron is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he co-founded the Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP), and founded the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) and the Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab). He is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he teaches “Computers and Society” each fall.
He has been named one of the 60 Pioneers of Computer Graphics by ACM SIGGRAPH, has been elected to the CHI (Computers and Human Interaction) Academy by ACM SIGCHI, has been named an ACM Fellow, and has been given a Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award. He received the Social Impact Award at ACM CHI2020; he is an ACM Distinguished Speaker for 2022-5.
His most recent book, self-published in 2025, is Reinvention: Meaningful Ventures in Later Life. His other most recent books are Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do, which was published in a Second Edition by ACM Press in 2024. Ethical Tech Startup Guide was published by Springer Nature in 2023.
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