Great Canadian Scientists CD-ROM

1995 · biography · MS-DOS · GCS Research Society

Barry Shell created the GCS Research Society in 1993. At the time, people had nowhere to go to find out about the work and achievements of Canadian scientists. Working in his spare time and funded by government grants, Shell researched and interviewed dozens of Canadian scientists, and in 1995 he posted the profiles to a personal website at Simon Fraser University where he worked. That website led to the book Great Canadian Scientists and this companion CD-ROM featuring video interviews and science games. In 2001, the Society's science.ca website was born with funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PromoScience program. Since then, the site has received nearly 40 million unique visits, and now averages over 1 million unique visits per year and around 15 million hits per year. Another book, the award-winning Sensational Scientists: The Journeys and Discoveries of 24 Men and Women of Science was published in 2005, and is also based on the content of science.ca . The CD-ROM team included: Barry Shell Marvin Entz Jeffrey Steinbok Gordon Ross Ian Wojtowicz David Ritter Laura Wallace Lianna Walden Tom Lakovic Mark Cohen Sam Shell