David T. Barnard

Dr. David T. Barnard was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, on July 1, 1998. From 1996 to 1998 he served as Vice-President (Administration) and Controller at the University of Regina. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in Regina, and an adjunct professor at Hunan University, Peking University, Shandong University, and the Educational Institute of Jilin Province, all in China. He can be reached

via electronic mail as David.Barnard@URegina.CA
by telephone in the office at +1-306-585-4382 or at home at +1-306-789-1885
or by FAX at +1-306-585-5200, or at home at +1-306-789-6923.

Some speeches can be found here. He is a member of

the Board of Directors of the Council for Canadian Unity,
the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Corporate Circle,
the Board of Governors of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College,
the Board of Directors of SaskPower,
the Board of Directors of the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy,
the Board of Directors of the Regina Regional Economic Development Authority,
the Board of Directors of the Wascana Centre Authority,
the Board of Directors of the Petroleum Technology Research Centre,
the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada,
the Council of Western Canadian University Presidents,
the Advisory Board (Chair) for the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, and
is honorary Vice President of the Canadian Club of Regina, and
is honorary President of the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association.

He has been a consultant to a number of universities and businesses, providing advice on information system development and management. He has taught graduate courses on compilation, operating systems, formal languages and algorithms for text processing; and undergraduate courses on data structures, simulation, compilation, operating systems, introductory programming, social aspects of informatics, and applications in the humanities. His research interests include compilation (sequentially or in parallel) and the processing of structured documents. Some recent scholarly work can be found here. He is a member of

the editorial board of Computer Languages,
the editorial board of Computers and the Humanities,
the editorial board of Markup Languages: Theory and Practice,
the editorial board of the series Text, Speech and Language Technology,
the Association for Computers and the Humanities,
the Association for Computing Machinery,
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and
the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

He was born in New Liskeard, Ontario. He studied computer science at the University of Toronto (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.) and theology at Regent College at the University of British Columbia (Dip.C.S.). Prior to arriving in Regina in 1996, he was at Queen's University in Kingston as a member of the Department of Computing and Information Science. He had a variety of administrative appointments at Queen's University, first as Director of Computing and Communications Services, then as Head of Computing and Information Science, and eventually as part of the central administration as Associate to the Vice-Principal (Resources). He also served on external committees and boards, including the Board of the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario, the Task Group on Computer Communication Protocols of the National Library of Canada, the High Performance Computing Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Education and Training of Ontario, and the Sector Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on a Telecommunications Strategy for Ontario.

He is married, with three teenage children. His interests include reading, poetry, music, art, architecture and travel.