Joe McCarthy is an irrepressible instigator, connector and evangelist, interested in the ways that people connect technologies and the ways that technologies connect people. His work spans the areas of artificial intelligence, ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. After 15 years in the corporate world, Joe renewed his early passion for education, returning to academia to teach senior-level computer science courses at the University of Washington, Tacoma's Institute of Technology in the Winter and Spring of 2011. He is delighted to join the Computing & Software Systems faculty at the University of Washington, Bothell, starting in the Autumn 2011 quarter.

Joe's most recent corporate position was founder and director of Strands Labs Seattle, where he led a research and development team for Oregon-based Strands Labs, Inc. Prior to joining Strands, Joe was a senior research scientist at Nokia, Intel and Accenture. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, and his career includes earlier roles as entrepreneur, professor and consultant. Joe has authored or co-authored over 40 technical publications, given over 50 presentations, and has served as Conference Co-Chair of CSCW 2002, General Chair of UbiComp 2003, Program Co-Chair of UbiComp 2008, and Chair of the UbiComp Steering Committee from 2003-2009.