6.4.1.5. Dr Peter Grogono

Dr Peter Grogono obtained a Master degree in Mathematics from Queens College in Cambridge, England (1973), and a Master degree in Computer Science for Montreal's Concordia University (1980), before obtaining a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University (1985).

Dr Grogono is a registered engineer from the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a member of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), as well as a long time member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Dr Grogono is a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, where he has been a Faculty member since 1985.

Consulting programmer, mathematician, and lecturer, Dr Grogono has also been director of various organizations including the Cardiff Commonwealth Arts Festival (Cardiff, Wales), Electronic Music Studios (London, England), and Metonymy Productions (Montreal, Quebec).

Dr Peter Grogono has been awarded various awards including: the "Music Software" prize from Radio Milano for his design and implementation of the MuSys system for electronic music synthesis, the first award for Teaching Excellence given by the Concordia Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science in 1998, the first President's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007, and the Engineering and Computer Science Students Association awards for "outstanding contributions to student life" in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Currently supervising seven PhD students, two of whom are in the Special Interdisciplinary Program (SIP), and six masters students, Dr Grogono has already supervised 123 graduate students, including 7 with PhD Theses, 58 with Masters Theses, and 58 with Major Reports.

With solid experience in 3D and n-dimensional application programming, Dr Grogono's principal areas of research are programming languages, software development, and artificial life.

Dr Grogono is responsible for many software development projects including: electronic music composition and performance (MuSys), highway design and construction (HighWays), computing stresses in concrete columns (Columbine), coordinate geometry calculations (Corgi), management information system for travel agents (Trips), information systems for maintaining historical data bases (FreeFlo), functional programming languages for with extensions for object-oriented and real-time programming (Bias), object-oriented languages (PC-Dee, UNIX-Dee), 3D game simulation (Snooker), libraries for OpenGL graphics programming (CUGL), environments for experimenting with evolutionary programming (Formal), programming languages for developing modular, concurrent, distributed software (Erasmus), as well as for virtual reality, fractals, and interdisciplinary applications.

In fields including Expert Systems, Computer-Aided Instruction, Electronic Publication, and Object Oriented Programming, Dr Grogono's Industrial Consulting clients include: Ansco Ltd, Bell Canada (Expert Systems), Canadian Aviation Electronics, Center for Building Studies (SIRICON), Department of Educational Technology, League of Canadian Poets, Lethbridge Rehabilitation Center (Expert Systems), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, SR Telecom, and Writers' Union of Canada.

Reviewer for books, papers for journals, papers for conferences, and grant applications, Dr Grogono published over 348 documents, including 7 books, 2 thesis, and 73 technical papers.

Not only did Dr Grogono contribute to the start and evolution of the work of 01 COMMUNICATIONS and the Cosmos Square project, but is knowledge, experience, and expert judgment in the multidisciplinary fields of work required for the Cosmos Square project, are invaluable.