Michael Fudge is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.

My areas of study are focused around digital transformation and the impact of information technology on society. For example, I focus on the architectures necessary to support the internet of things, big data, and machine learning. I do this from the perspectives of scalability, security and ethical uses of the information collected by these systems.

I strongly believe that programming is a 21st century literacy skill which should be taught as part of the digital humanities. No discipline is immune from technology disruption and therefore we all need to understand these systems and keep a balanced perspective over their appropriate use. For programming, this implies understanding how to leverage technology to solve-domain specific information problems. The idea is for the student to be aware of the capabilities and limitations of technology through code, and be able to think systematically about information-oriented problems.

Previously, I have been an Adjunct Professor for the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University since August 2001 and have over 25 years of teaching and professional work experience as a software developer and as an administrator in the IT field. In 2011 I won the Outstanding Part-Time Faculty of the year award. I started my YouTube channel in 2010, consisting of primarily how-to instructional technology videos, which has grown to over 2 Million views and 10,000 subscribers.

My educational background is in applied technology. In 1993, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Oswego. I completed my Master’s degree in Information Management from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) in 2006.

In addition to my service and teaching duties, I maintain an active practice with a company, AppHammer which I co-founded. l also mentor for the Syracuse Student Sandbox.