Jim Dator Biography

Biographical Sketch for Jim Dator

Mr. Dator is a pioneer in information technologies and was probably one of the first people in Hawaii to be online regularly (non-computer science, non-military type) for computer conferencing and electronic mail. This was due in large part to having pa rticipated with Murray Turoff's pioneering project, Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES), under a National Science Foundation grant, from 1978.

Today Jim Dator is a Professor, and Head of the Alternative Futures Option, Department of Political Science, and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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