Tim Lenoir
Tim Lenoir is the Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society at Duke University. Utilizing his extensive background in building web-based digital learning environments, Lenoir is working on a game-based learning project with colleagues from Virtual Heroes, a developer of game-based training and learning environments.
This project’s goal is to adapt a highly successful game-based training simulation, originally used to train U.S. Special Forces for sensitive Middle East missions, to a learning environment designed to support peace and conflict resolution by imparting skills such as leadership, cultural awareness, adaptive thinking and problem-solving to provide timely, effective international humanitarian assistance in natural disaster relief.
Lenoir’s recent work has focused on developing data mining and visualization strategies for tracking the diffusion of innovation in biomedical science and on the role of federally funded non-academic research and development in shaping the landscape of academic research. He authored, The Origin and Diffusion of DNA-Microarray Technology, which appeared in the August 2006 issue of the Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration. Lenoir is completing a collaborative study on Stanford’s historical relationship to Silicon Valley titled, Inventing the Entrepreneurial Region: Stanford and the Co-Evolution of Silicon Valley.