| Name: Farhad
Javidi |
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Department: Simulation & Gaming Development
Information Technology Division
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| Title: Futures Institute |
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Office Location:
Information Technology (Central Campus),
5107
Central Campus |
| Phone Number:
(704)330-6398 |
| Fax Number:
(704)330-6133 |
Email Address: Farhad.Javidi@cpcc.edu
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Responsibilities:
Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Mondays: 11:30-4:30 or by appointment
Chair, Simulation & Game Development program
Chair, Simulation, Modeling and Visualization Center
Full-time Faculty, Information Technology
Member of College Technology Committee
Member of College Web Services Committee
Member of the Advisory Board for Garage Games
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Educational Background:
Mr. Javidi is ABD in Computer Science from the University of South Florida. He holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science (from the University of South Florida and the University of Central Oklahoma, respectively) as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Science and Technology (Tehran, Iran).
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Educational Experience:
Farhad Javidi currently serves as Chair of Simulation & Game Development for Central Piedmont Community College's Information Technology Division. He developed the first state-approved associate degree program in Simulation and Game Development in the nation (approved by the North Carolina Community College System on October 24, 2005). He has been teaching courses in the IT department since August of 2002. He is also chair of CPCC's Senate Technology Committee. Mr. Javidi has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Computer Science department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has taught various courses in the Computer Science department at the University of South Florida. He has also developed and taught courses in the Colleges of Fine Arts and Education at USF. In 1994, in conjunction with USF's Instructional Technology Program, he co-conducted a multimedia applications workshop for 60 international teachers from the Department of Defense Schools.
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Publications:
FULKM: A Standardized Keyboard for Persian Computing
R2LW3: A Method for Writing Right-to-Left Languages on the Web
Poetry Books:
Havaeyh Daroon
Yek Hava Nafas
Rahvaran
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Interests:
Simulation & game development, homeland security, bioinformatics, geospatial technologies, energy technologies.
Poetry, soccer, movies, games.
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Other Information:
From 1997 to 2002, he served as Director of Information Technology for Epley Associates, Inc., one of the largest communications firms in the southeastern United States. In 1998, he co-founded Digiton Corporation, a North Carolina-based consulting firm. He currently serves as the firm's Senior Technology Consultant.
Having spent much of the past decade working directly with clients (among them GlaxoSmithKline, National Society of Accountants and North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry), developing web sites and training tools as well as symposia and instructional materials, he has gained considerable professional experience in the field of Information Technology. He has designed databases, tutored clients, written software documentations and designed dynamic and interactive applications. He has also served as hardware/software/network systems advisor for clients of Epley Associates and Digiton Corporation.
Farhad Javidi has extensive experience in the field of Instructional Technology. In the early 1990s, as a member of the University of South Florida's Software Usability and Design Studies Lab, he experimented with such tools as Asymetrix Toolbook and Macromedia Authorware. He has used these and other tools to develop coursewares. While attending classes in USF's Instructional Technology program, he became increasingly interested in multimedia tools and animation, sound, video, audio, etc. He developed early examples of interactive multimedia presentations on the Web and developed and conducted several student teaching seminars on the use of Visual Basic and other multimedia development tools. In 1994, he served as a panelist at the Speech Communication Association's annual conference in New Orleans, LA. The topic was Experiential Learning in Intercultural Communication Classes in Higher Education: Dissemination of Technology-Assisted Learning Activities. He conducted research in the areas of courseware engineering and usability while working on his doctoral dissertation at USF.
A native Persian, Mr. Javidi is fIuent in three languages, English, Farsi and Turkish. His interest in diversity and his commitment to advancing multilingual computing served as the basis for his Master's thesis, which involved the development of a standardized keyboard for Persian computing. In 1996, he invented a method that enables the writing and editing of right-to-left languages in ASCII-based text type on the World Wide Web (University of South Florida patent #96/10/014). He has developed numerous Unicode-based tools for right-to-left languages in Internet technologies. His work in the field of multilingual computing aims to enhance faculty members' understanding of the needs of foreign students and to assist software developers in the creation of better training tools for foreign users.
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