Dr. Martin Brooks is with the National Research Council of Canada’s Institute for Information Technology where he leads the Broadband Visual Communication Research Program where the objective is to catalyze large-scale deployment of broadband networks, thus maintaining Canada's place as a world leader in advanced Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). Dr. Brooks previously led the NRC’s Interactive Information Group and the Knowledge Systems Laboratory.

Martin holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and has 30 years’ broad experience in research institutes, the private sector and the academic community - here and abroad. His main research areas are: software engineering, artificial intelligence , robotics and broadband networks. His work spans the range from highly theoretical to the very practical, and he also brings a strong background in development of business strategies and technology products.

As an experienced business and technology strategist, Dr. Brooks is an outstanding mentor with valuable experience in applied research and development especially in digital libraries and information retrieval. Over the course of his 30 year international career Dr. Brooks has created, developed and guided successful, creative product development teams in industry and research institutes. And MODEL has, over the years, been the beneficiary of Martin’s invaluable insights and wisdom.

Professor Jaworskis' research is in the area of automatic knowledge acquisition, dynamic context, conceptual modeling, evolving systems and knowledge based technologies. He is the inventor of Joined Maps, a notation and method for representing systems architecture, structures, processes and reusable templates. Since the inception of MODEL Technologies, Dr. Jaworski generously provided guidance and shared his expertise on a wide range of theoretical and practical aspects of developing context maps.

Dr. Jaworski has extensive consulting experience, within Canada and internationally, in helping organizations leverage and optimize their information and knowledge resources. A respected authority in his field, Dr. Jaworski has lectured and published widely on computer architecture, modeling tools and methods, knowledge acquisition and recovery.

In his long and distinguished career he taught computer sciences at Concordia University, State University of New York, University of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania State University, and Warsaw University of Technology. At present he is continuing his research and consulting practice as the CEO of General Strategies Inc., and continue supervising graduate students in the Computer Science Department at Concordia University.