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Eric Berkowitz
Eric G. Berkowitz is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Dr. Berkowitz's research focuses on automated proactive organization of large-scale document collections as a component of open information access. He also teaches courses on Big Data, and Open Source integration and Technology and Information in Local and Global Society.
Prior to coming to Roosevelt, Dr. Berkowitz taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology and before that worked and consulted on document management systems and workplace automation systems.
My interest is in teaching students that everything in life is about balance and all the more so in the Information Age As governments and other power-players learn more about citizens and much is made of this issue, far less is made of citizen's abilities to learn more about the power-players. Thus balance can be restored by active civic-engagement through possessing information about the power-players and the means to collect and process that information in the form of open-source tools. I am interested in getting students from all disciplines ranging from the humanities to the formal sciences to understand how the open source world provides crucial information tools and exploit them as appropriate for their discipline.
