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Ian! D. Allen


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I am a professor at the Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  I started teaching in the Computer Studies (CS) department in January 1997.  In the summer of 1999 I transferred to the Information and Quantitative Systems (IQS) department in the school of Business.  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 teach free/libre Open Source technologies under a Creative Commons License license - Linux, Apache, etc. 

Do not send me any proprietary Microsoft documents, please.

Contact Information
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Teaching Home Page (on this machine)
teaching home page on this machine
Teaching Home Page (master copy)
http://teaching.idallen.com/
Personal Home Page
http://www.idallen.com/

Education:

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

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

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
Professor of Computer Studies (Algonquin College) 1997-1999
Professor of Information Systems (Algonquin College) 1999-2002
Professor of Computer Studies (again) 2002 to present
GNU/Linux / Unix / Free/Libre Open Source Software [FLOSS] Consultant 1985 to present

Professional/Academic Interests:

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

Favourite Sayings:

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

"You have to think like the shell!"

"Less code is better code."

Favourite Quotes and Interests:

See http://www.idallen.com/ 

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