Isaac M.

Summary

Isaac Mao is a software architect, entrepreneur, and learning technology, and social technology researcher. Isaac divides his time between research, social work, business, and technology. He is now directing/advising some non-profit programs and several for-profit businesses in Hong Kong. Isaac has a long history leads developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in Intel HomeCD project and Tangram BackSchool suite. He applied many HCI methodologies into the software design process and improved the usability of software so much. He turns to Social Computing research and organized the first Social Software Forum in China. Isaac is now in advisor board for Global Voices Online project initiated by Berkman Center of Harvard University. He co-founded CNBlog.org to evangelize grassroots publishing. The team then transformed in to Social Brain Foundation later on. As one of the earliest bloggers, he writes a lot on his own website as well as other columns to populate blogs as an enabling tool for grassroots learning, expression, and emergent democracy. Isaac also leads the Creative Commons, global teams. Creative Commons organization (co-founded and chaired by Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford) is dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use v.s. DMCA. Isaac Mao earned BS degree in Computer Science and got MBA training program at Shanghai Jiaotong University, with a fellowship to Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. For more information, please visit his website, http://www.isaacmao.com. Specialties: software architect, human-computer interaction, people management, project management, business envision, principle research