Steve Easterbrook

Director, School of the Environment
Professor, Department of Computer Science.

University of Toronto, 
40 St George Street, 
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4, 
Canada. 

Phone: +1 (416) 978 3610 
Email: sme@cs.toronto.edu

Blog: Serendipity
Twitter: @SMEasterbrook
Mastodon: fediscience.org/@steve
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Member of the Sustainability Informatics research group
Member of the graduate faculty of the School of the Environment
Member of the Centre for Global Change Science

Previously:

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Research Interests

My research focuses on climate informatics, and more specifically, the applications of computer science and software engineering to the challenge posed by global climate change. I have completed a series of case studies of the software development processes used by computational scientists for development of Earth System Models. See for example:

I am also investigating the role of computational models in teaching key concepts in climate science, and the application of web-based collective intelligence tools to the development of consensus solutions to climate change. Some of this work focusses on the idea of Systems Thinking as a key strategy in understanding. See for example:

My earlier work focussed on systems analysis for complex software-intensive systems, particularly questions such as how the views of different stakeholders can be compared and merged; the role of modelling for understanding and communicating key ideas about systems; software verification and validation and how it affects software quality; and the social and cognitive processes that support coordination within teams of software developers. I'm also interested in the broader question of how software development re-shapes human activities, or more accurately, how human activities and software systems co-evolve, each shaping the other in important ways. See for example:

For a full list of papers, see my publications page

Other Projects:

My Students

MSc students

PhD students

Postdocs

Alumni

Some talks and tutorials I have given:

Patents held: Patents? Why on earth would I have patents? I'm a scientist, dammit. Patents only get in the way of open dissemination of research results.


Teaching

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Other interests

My interests include:
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