Stephen Jacobs

Stephen Jacobs is the Director of Open@RIT, a Key Research Center of the University and it's Open Programs Office, funded in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He's a former Ford Foundation Critical Digital Infrastructure research fellow. He’s been teaching students how to participate in Open Source Software communities and practices for 13 years and designed and led RIT’s academic minor in Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture, the only one in the world. He’s RIT’s presidentially designated representative to a new NASEM effort to be announced this month on Open Scholarship in Academia. He’s written on technology and the arts for over 30 years including Wired, CNET, the Washington Post’s Fast Forward, and others, though not as often as he’d like these past several years. His most recent web publication was for the Linux Foundation on founding Open@RIT. His most recent magazine article was for Wired UK on the Open Source Software and Open Hardware “artificial pancreas” project.