Ken Barker - A Brief Biography

Ken Barker is the Dean of the Faculty of Science and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He served as the Department Head of Computer Science for nine years before his appointment as Dean. In addition to holding a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta (1990) he has 25 years of experience working with industrial computer systems, fifteen years of consulting experience in the design of commercial databases, and a particular interest in system integration, distributed systems, and the privacy and security of data repositories. As the director of research laboratories at the Universities of Calgary and Manitoba he has supervised over 50 graduate students, in addition to several post-docs and research assistants. Dr. Barker has published in excess of 225 peer reviewed publications in areas as diverse as distributed systems, software engineering, transaction systems, simulations, privacy and security.