Kate Abraham

Before working on The Lab, Kate spent a couple of years in Toronto, working as a Writer for the Biography Channel. Her first dabble in the television industry was as a production runner for The Trisha Show in the UK ("think Jerry Springer, and then add Coronation Street accents"). She is originally from Cambridge, England and she came to Canada to write her MA thesis in 2004...and just hasn't gone home yet. Kate returned to Toronto at the start of 2008, having worked on 180 episodes of The Lab.

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Episode 32 Episode 61 Episode 74 Episode 76 Episode 86 Episode 88 Episode 107 Episode 112 Episode 116 Episode 121 Episode 133 Episode 138 Episode 143 Episode 144 Episode 150 Episode 161

Ralph Alfonso
Owner, Bongo Beat Records

Ralph Alfonso has been part of the music industry for over 30 years as a journalist (Toronto Star, Bomp, New York Rocker, etc), photographer, designer (Blue Rodeo, Colin James, Bif Naked, Platinum Blonde, Mae Moore, etc), and executive (Warner, EMI, Attic, Nettwerk). Is also a performer/author with four cds out and two books, and had a documentary about his beatnik jazz has aired on CBC and Bravo. He was an integral part of the 1977 Toronto punk scene as manager of The Diodes and running Canada’s first punk club, The Crash and Burn.

Appears in:
Episode 146

Kate Armstrong
Artist, www.katearmstrong.com

Kate Armstrong is an artist and writer with interest in networks, distributed experience, and computational poetics. Armstrong’s work examines ongoing tensions between digital and analogue, and looks to bring digital structures - both functional and metaphorical - into low- fi models and physical spaces as a way to interrogate contemporary culture. She is also engaged with text and experimental narrative, especially open forms that bring poetics and computational function together. In the past this has taken a variety of forms including net art, psychogeography, installation, audio, performance, and robotics. She teaches at Simon Fraser University in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, in the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Appears in:
Episode 116

Stewart Arneil
www.halfbakedsoftware.com

Stewart Arneil has 20 years experience in private and public sectors in the design and development of software with specific interests in project management, instructional design, language learning, and training people in the appropriate use of technology in research, teaching and learning. He has an M.A. in Computational Theory, certification as an Instructional Designer and is about to complete certification in Project Management. He is a founder and director of Half-Baked Software Inc.

Appears in:
Episode 33

Duncan Ayre
Manager of Internet Communications and Media Monitoring Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Department of National Defence

Born in Thunder Bay Ontario, Mr. Ayre was educated in music performance and arts administration. He worked across Canada with established and evolving musical artists until moving to Victoria British Columbia in 1991, after which he switched to the computer industry. He worked in local stores, national retailers and at major internet providers until 2000 when he accepted employment in an IT position at Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in Victoria British Columbia. Mr. Ayre is currently a member of the Public Affairs team responsible for Media Monitoring and internet communication including the public websites. He is part of the team that keeps the senior leadership of the military informed on what is happening in the world and the pubic informed on the important role the military is doing on the west coast of Canada to keep North Americans safe.

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Episode 31 Episode 34

Ivan Bajic
Assistant Prof., Simon Fraser University

Ivan Bajic is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University, where he lectures and conducts research in image and video processing and compression. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2003.

Appears in:
Episode 89 Episode 106

Patricia Beck

Pat Beck presently teaches Technology Education, which includes Metal Shop, and Design and Drafting, for grades 9 through 12. Her background includes a diploma in Architectural Technology and more than 15 years experience in the Architectural Design and Drafting industry.

Appears in:
Episode 27

Faisal Beg
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Science, SFU

Faisal is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Science, SFU. He received his Bachelors from the best engineering college in India, the Indian Institute of Technology, in Electrical Engineering. He received his MS from Boston University, in Biomedical Engineering, and his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, also in Biomedical Engineering. His main interests are in Image Analysis, how to quantify the shape of anatomical organs and relate them to different diseases.

Appears in:
Episode 129 Episode 163

Jordan Behan
President, Tell Ten Friends Marketing Co.

Jordan Behan is Owner and President of Tell Ten Friends Marketing Co. (Founded in 2006) In the first person: Before founding the company, I worked in newspaper both as a reporter and advertising, later in TV marketing and advertising, and later still in public relations. The web combines all of the best of what I love about media, and the new tools of the web mean that everyone can be a publisher or broadcaster. Im also an organizer (and evangelist) of our local Barcamp Vancouver, which will celebrate its second year in mid-August of this year. http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2007.

Appears in:
Episode 58 Episode 73

Cole Benoit
AKA Flawless Imperfection

Cole Benoit, Aka Flawless Imperfection, has been creating and producing electronic based music since 2000, as a solo artistic output, as well as collaborating with local MCs, doing various remix work, and the occasional scoring foray. He also plays in the local bands In.Ovo and Origami Swan. He is the keyboard/software specialist at Long and McQuade Music Hastings.

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Episode 24