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Smith, GMick
Strayer University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 
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For almost 18 years, G. Mick Smith, PhD was CIO at Smith Consulting where he assisted numerous clients in the Philadelphia-Valley Forge and Delaware Valley area. Prior to his consulting career at an Internet start-up, at universities, in several corporations, and a non-profit, he was a professor of humanities at Hahnemann University where he developed on online History of World Medicine course in 1994; and, in 1997, he earned a Distance Learning Administrator Certificate from Texas A&M University and the Center for Distance Learning Research. He recently completed two certificates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in their edX component, Design and Development of Educational Technology (2014) and Design and Development of Games for Learning (2015). In addition to his technology background, as an administrator, he earned two more certificates from the Jack Welch Management Institute: Creating a Winning Strategy (2015) and Becoming a Leader (2014).

Smith has published widely in gaming, educational technology, and in the history of computing, in addition to presenting academic papers at international, national, and regional conferences. His educational teaching runs the gamut, from universities to several private schools at the K-12 level. In addition, he publishes in Computing Reviews (of course!), as well as in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, the Bryn Mawr Classical Journal, and the Medieval Review.

Smith earned his doctorate at UCLA in the history of religions and has been awarded two master’s degrees as well, one in history from UCLA and the other in historical theology from Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA). Also, he was a Johannes Quasten Scholar in Patristics from The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC). He is currently campus dean at the Christiana, DE Strayer University site, and previously he served at the King of Prussia and the Center City, PA Strayer locations.

 
 
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   Encounters with HCI pioneers: a personal history and photo journal
Shneiderman B., Morgan&Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2019. 187 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-681734-78-1)

Personal computing really only emerged thanks to the ease of user experience design (UXD) and the discipline of human-computer interaction (HCI). In this volume, the author describes his personal democratizing experience with a small g...

Sep 3 2019  
  Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s coming of age
Berlin L., Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2017. 512 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-451651-50-8), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Berlin’s compelling volume is distinguished by an engaging writing style. Her chronological history of the Valley is punctuated by personal insights about the principals. As effective and engaging as the author is, though, it...

Jul 17 2018  
   Play ethics: values, virtues and videogames
Miguel Sicart. YouTube, 00:56:43, published on Mar 28, 2016, Stanford, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esBINBLdkjo. Type: Video

Sicart’s groundbreaking work has clarified the ethics of gaming. In this presentation, he notes that he is a scholar of play who, interestingly enough, no longer plays video games....

Mar 30 2017  
   Visual cryptography for image processing and security: theory, methods, and applications (2nd ed.)
Liu F., Yan W., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2015. 167 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319234-72-4)

In this slim but overly packed volume, visual cryptography is reviewed along with its fundamental concepts in theory and practice. The area is absolutely critical at this time for counter-terrorism, corporate security, and in internati...

Feb 10 2016  
   Introduction to modern cryptography (2nd ed.)
Katz J., Lindell Y., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2014. 603 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-466570-26-9), Reviews: (2 of 3)

The volume is intended as a textbook, which also includes classroom exercises. As a result, it can be evaluated on that basis and then compared to other works in the field. The question is why write another textbook on cryptography? Th...

Oct 6 2015  
   The emergence of personal data protection as a fundamental right of the EU
Fuster G., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2014. 274 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319050-22-5)

Law in the European Union (EU) is at the forefront of proposing the fundamental right to personal data protection. This book reveals the steps leading to the emergence of the new understanding of rights while indicating the intricacie...

Nov 10 2014  
 
 
 
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