Bio

Dr. Henry Schaffer is Professor Emeritus and Coordinator of Special IT Projects and Faculty Collaboration at North Carolina State University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1966. Over the course of his distinguished career at NC State, he served as Associate Provost for Academic Computing from 1984 to 1993, helping to shape the university’s early computing infrastructure during a pivotal era in academic technology. From 1986 to 1994, Dr. Schaffer also split his time between NC State and SURAnet, contributing to the development of one of the nation’s early regional research networks. His involvement in the intersection of computation and population genetics led to his participation in the founding of GenBank and continues to this day. His decades of service reflect a deep commitment to advancing the intersection of technology and academic life.

Publications

• Will Algorithms Rule Us? , IT Professional (2024)
• Computerized Analysis Can Improve Education While Taking Advantage of Economies of Scale , Computer (2022)
• Tired of Failing Students? Improving Student Learning Using Detailed and Automated Individualized Feedback in a Large Introductory Science Course , Innovative Higher Education (2020)
• Will You Ever Need an Exit Strategy? , IT Professional (2014)
• Improving K-12 pedagogy via a Cloud designed for education , International Journal of Information Management (2012)
• NCSU's Virtual Computing Lab: A Cloud Computing Solution , Computer (2009)
• Drift or selection: A statistical test of gene frequency variation over generations , Genetics (1977)