Stephen Jacobs
Professor
Stephen Jacobs
Professor
Education
BA, MA, New School for Social Research
Currently Teaching
In the News
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November 13, 2020
Open@RIT receives Sloan Foundation grant to support open work across the university
RIT’s open programs office has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to measure and strengthen support of the faculty and staff who do work in the open community, including open source software, open data, open hardware, open educational resources, Creative Commons licensed work, open research, and other open work.
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October 27, 2020
Election Day Hackathon encourages people to use open technology for civic engagement
As the 2020 election results come in Nov. 3, civic hackers at RIT want to remind people about the power of technology and how it can be used for good. At RIT’s Election Day Hackathon, students, faculty, staff, and community members will analyze civic problems in the local community, state, and country and propose projects to address them.
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September 16, 2020
Open research at RIT aims to accelerate the spread of science and technology
WROC-TV talks to Stephen Jacobs, professor and director of Open@RIT, a new initiative dedicated to supporting all kinds of “open work.”
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November 17, 2020
Jacobs a guest on CHAOSS podcast
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October 6, 2020
Jacobs hosts group for National Day of Civic Hacking
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September 23, 2020
Jacobs presents on Open@RIT initiative
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December 9, 2019
LibreCorps mentors humanitarian startups on how to run the open source way