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RIT People
RIT is served by two program staff and an administrative assistant.
Ira H. Fuchs is Vice President for Research in Information Technology and the founder of RIT. He is responsible for directing the Foundation's expanding investigations of digital technologies that can be applied to teaching and research.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Fuchs served as the Vice President for Computing and Information Technology at Princeton University (1985-2000), where he was responsible for the overall management of the University's academic and administrative computing services, electronic communications, media, intranet, and printing services.
He was Vice Chancellor for University Systems at the City University of New York (1980-1985) and Executive Director of the CUNY Computer Center (1973-1980). In 1981 he founded the BITNET Network, the first and world's largest academic telecommunications network, and later served as president of its successor, the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN).
Mr. Fuchs currently serves on the board of trustees of JSTOR, Sarah Lawrence College, the Open Source Applications Foundation, and the Princeton Public Library.
He received his M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Physics at Columbia University.
Christopher J. Mackie is Associate Program Officer in Research in Information Technology. He holds Ph.D. and Masters degrees from Princeton University, a Masters degree from the University of Michigan, and an A.B. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A computational modeler and social complexity theorist by training, he has also published in the fields of regulatory theory, social research methods, and energy, education, and health policy. His most recent work involves the application of advances in cognitive and affective neuroscience and psycholinguistics to symbolic interactionist theory, in order to model the emergence of human identity at the intersection of individual discourse processing and social information flows; in the furtherance of this project, he has spent the last several years teaching computers how to feel.
Prior to joining the Foundation, he held management positions in corporate healthcare and higher education information technology, and served as an I.T. consultant to domestic and international not-for-profit agencies.
H. Joyce Pierre is Administrative Assistant for the RIT program.
