Michael J. Shiffer, Vita

PERMANENT POSITION:

· Associate Professor, of Urban Planning and Policy, Director of the Great Cities Urban Data Visualization Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, (January, 2001-Present).

EDUCATION:

· Ph.D. Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (December, 1991). Dissertation: A Hypermedia Decision Support System to Aid Small Group Planning and Decision Making (Lewis D. Hopkins, Major Professor).

· M.U.P. Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (December, 1987). Master's Project: The Impact of Society Upon Urban Rail Transit (William I. Goodman, Major Professor).

· B.A. Geography, De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois, (May, 1985). Concentration: Urban Geography & Transportation.

POSITIONS HELD:

· Director, Computer Resource Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, (July, 1996- December, 2000).

· Principal Research Scientist & Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, (September, 1993- Present).

· Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, (January, 1992- August, 1993).

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

· Shiffer, M.J., (Forthcoming) "Spatial Multimedia for Planning Support" in: Brail & Klosterman (eds.) "Planning Support Systems for Urban Planning (working title)". New Brunswick, NJ: CUPR Press.

· Shiffer, M.J. (1999) "Managing Public Discourse: Towards the Augmentation of GIS", in Longley, et al. (eds.), Geographical Information Systems, (New York: Wiley).

· Shiffer, M.J. (1999) "Planning Support Systems for Low-Income Communities", in Schon, et al. (eds.), High Technology and Low-Income Communities, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

· Shiffer, M.J., (1999) "Augmenting Transportation-Related Environmental Review Activities Using Distributed Multimedia", in A.S. Camara and J. Raper, eds., Spatial Multimedia and Virtual Reality. London: Taylor & Francis.

· Shiffer, M. J. (1998) "Multimedia GIS for Planning Support and Public Discourse" Cartography and geographic information systems. 25 (2).

· Shiffer, M.J. (1995) "Multimedia in der Stadtplanung", Garten & Landschaft, 11, pp. 18-22.

· Shiffer, M.J. (1995) "Interactive Multimedia Planning Support: Moving from Stand-Alone Systems to the World Wide Web", Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, volume 22, pp. 649-664.

· Shiffer, M.J. (1995) "Geographic Interaction in the City Planning Context: Beyond the Multimedia Prototype", in Nyerges, et al. (ed), Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems, (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers), pp. 295-310.

· Shiffer, M.J. (1995) "Environmental Review with Hypermedia Systems", Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, volume 22, pp. 359-372.

· Shiffer, M.J., (1995) "Multimedia Representational Aids in Urban Planning Support Systems", in Marchese, F. (ed.), Understanding Images, (New York: Springer-Verlag), pp.77-90.

· Shiffer, M.J., (1994) "A Geographically-Based Multimedia Approach to City Planning", in Plaisant, C. (ed.), Human Factors in Computing Systems, (New York: Association for Computing Machinery), pp.265-266.

· Shiffer, M.J. (1993) "Augmenting Geographic Information with Collaborative Multimedia Technologies", in R.B. McMaster and M.P. Armstrong (eds.), Proceedings of Auto Carto 11, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, pp. 367-376.

· Shiffer, M.J. and Wiggins, L.L., (1993) “The Union of GIS and Multimedia”, in Castle, G.H. (ed.), Profiting from a Geographic Information System, (Ft. Collins, CO: GIS World, Inc.), pp. 336-341.

· Shiffer, M.J. (1992) “Towards a Collaborative Planning System”, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, volume 19, pp. 709-722.

· Shiffer, M. J. (1992) “Representation of Environmental Conditions in Planning Support Systems”, Paper presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October, 1992.

· Shiffer, M. J. (1992) “Collaborative Systems for Transportation Planning”, Citizen Participation, volume 2, number 2, December, 1992. pp. 2-4.

· Shiffer, M. J. (1992) “New Directions: Collaborative Planning Systems”, Micro Software News: Newsletter of the International City Managers’ Association, May, 1992.

· Shiffer, M. J. (1992) A Hypermedia Implementation of a Collaborative Planning System, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana, January, 1992.

· Shiffer, M. J. (1991) “Hypermedia Collaborative Planning Systems”, Proceedings of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association 29th Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, August, 1991.

· Shiffer, M. J. (1991) “Towards a Collaborative Planning System”, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Oxford, U.K., July, 1991.

· Wiggins, L. L. and Shiffer, M. J. (1990), “Planning with Hypermedia: Combining Text, Graphics, Sound, and Video”, Journal of the American Planning Association, 56 226-235.

· Shiffer, M. J. (1988), “Hypermedia Allows Non-sequential Cross Referencing”, Planning News: American Planning Association Illinois Newsletter, Spring, 1988.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research focuses on how information technologies (such as multimedia representational aids, video conferencing, and world-wide networking) can better inform debate and decision making with a specific focus on geographic information. I teach graduate level courses in analytic methods and new and emerging technologies for planning and decision support. I also teach a seminar and do research on public transportation –specifically urban rail transit. In addition to my academic work, I consult with a variety of public and private agencies on information technology and communications issues. Finally, I am an active professional speaker and author on the application of information technology in the area of city planning and development.