% Faculty Information / Biography -- Ian! D. Allen
% Ian! D. Allen -- idallen@idallen.ca -- www.idallen.com ![Canadian Flag]
% Updated August 2019

Former College Professor -- January 1997 to June 2019
=====================================================

![DR LINUX Ontario car license plate] I was a college professor for 22 years
at the [Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology] in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada until I had to resign on June 30, 2019 due to poor working conditions.

I started teaching in the [Computer Studies] (CS) department at Algonquin in
January 1997.  In the summer of 1999 I transferred to the Information and
Quantitative Systems (IQS) department in the school of Business to work under
a better manager (Ian McMaster). In the summer of 2002 the College closed IQS
and moved me back into the Computer Studies department, now in the [School of
Advanced Technology] (now SAT, formerly CTET).

I taught free/libre [![Open Source]][1] technologies (mostly [Linux command
line]) under a Creative Commons [![Creative Commons License]][2] license. 

Previous Contact Information for Algonquin College (resigned June 2019)
:   [Prof Timetable]

Teaching Home Page (on this machine)
:   [teaching home page on this machine]

Teaching Home Page (master copy)
:   <http://teaching.idallen.com/>

Current Personal Home Page
:   <http://www.idallen.com/>

Formal Education
================

1985           [M.Math], [Computer Science]\
                   [University of Waterloo], Ontario, CANADA

1980           [B.A.], Honours [Psychology] (Deans List)\
                   [University of Waterloo], Ontario, CANADA

Graduate Scholarships: NSERC, OGS

Work Experience
===============

-   University of Waterloo Unix System Administrator 1980-1993
-   National Research Council (NRC) Guest Worker (IIT) 1993
-   Community Network ([FreeNet]) System Administrator 1993-1996
-   Computer Science Professor (Algonquin College) 1997-2019
    -   Professor of Computer Studies 1997-1999
    -   Professor of Information Systems 1999-2002
    -   Professor of Computer Studies (again) 2002 to 2012
    -   Professor of Information and Communications Technologies (Linux) 2012
        to June 2019
-   GNU/Linux / Unix / Free/Libre Open Source Software \[FLOSS\] Sysadmin and
    Consultant 1985 to present

Professional/Academic Interests
===============================

-   Computer Aided social interaction
-   Community Networks ([FreeNets][FreeNet])
-   Enabling, non-fascist Unix System Administration
-   Home computing environments (Linux, dual-home networking, IP Tunnelling,
    etc.)

Résumé
======

My Résumé is on my home page <http://www.idallen.com/>

Favourite Sayings
=================

"If this were easy, everyone would be doing it."

"You have to think like the shell!"

"Less code is better code."

Other Things
============

-   [Personal Home Page] ![National Capital FreeNet Graphic]
-   Favourite Quotes and Interests are on my home page
    <http://www.idallen.com/> 
-   [Contact Improvisation Dance]
-   [National Capital Free-Net]
-   [Rate This Professor]
-   Do not send me any [proprietary Microsoft documents], please.

    -- 
    | Ian! D. Allen, BA-Psych, MMath-CompSci  idallen@idallen.ca Ottawa CANADA
    | Home: www.idallen.com  Contact Improvisation Dance: www.contactimprov.ca
    | Former college professor of Free/Libre GNU+Linux @ teaching.idallen.com
    | Improve democracy www.fairvote.ca and defend digital freedom www.eff.org

[Plain Text] - plain text version of this page in [Pandoc Markdown] format

  [Canadian Flag]: common/canflag.png "Canada Flag ]"
  [DR LINUX Ontario car license plate]: common/drlinux.jpg
    "Dr.Linux car license plate ]"
  [Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology]: http://www.algonquincollege.com/
  [Computer Studies]: http://www.algonquincollege.com/sat/cs/
  [School of Advanced Technology]: http://www.algonquincollege.com/sat/
  [Open Source]: common/open_source_button.png
  [1]: http://www.opensource.org/
  [Linux command line]: cst8207/19w/
  [Creative Commons License]: common/somerights20.png
  [2]: http://creativecommons.org/
  [Prof Timetable]: cst8207/19w/schedule.html
  [teaching home page on this machine]: ./
  [M.Math]: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/
  [Computer Science]: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/
  [University of Waterloo]: http://www.uwaterloo.ca/
  [B.A.]: http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/
  [Psychology]: http://www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/
  [FreeNet]: http://www.ncf.ca/
  [Personal Home Page]: http://www.idallen.com/
  [National Capital FreeNet Graphic]: common/freenet_tiny.png
    "National Capital FreeNet ]"
  [Contact Improvisation Dance]: http://contactimprov.ca/
  [National Capital Free-Net]: http://www.ncf.ca
  [Rate This Professor]: ratings.html
  [proprietary Microsoft documents]: http://idallen.com/openformats.html
  [Plain Text]: biography.txt
  [Pandoc Markdown]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/