Stephen Marsh
PhD
Associate Professor
Program Director, Master in IT Security
Technology Management, Master of Information Technology SecurityFaculty of Business and Information Technology
Dr. Marsh’s research focuses on a humanist view of technology, where human social norms are reasoned about by, and embedded into, artificial systems. His thesis (1994) formalized trust and started a new field of research in computational trust. He has extended this work to examine regret, forgiveness, hope and privacy in sociotechnical systems. He is currently examining the concept of public privacy and democracy. His textbook “Trust Systems” is available as an Open Educational Resource. Dr. Marsh has published in conferences, journals and books in his areas of expertise, supervised Masters and PhD students to completion, and been an invited speaker at conferences and workshops on the topic of computational trust.
Areas of expertise
- PhD in Computing Science University of Stirling, Scotland 1994
- BSc in Computing Science University of Stirling, Scotland 1990
- Marsh, S “Trust Systems” OER Textbook (2021) Https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/trustsystems/
- Lewis, PR & Marsh, S “What is it like to trust a rock? A functionalist view of trust and trustworthiness in artificial intelligence” Cognitive Systems Research 72:33-49 (2022). Open Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389041721000814
- Marsh, S et al “Thinking about trust: People, process and place” Patterns 1(3), 2020. Open Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389920300441
Faculty Teaching Award, 2022
Ontario Tech University- IFIP Working Group 11.11 (Trust Management)
- IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
- Security Policies and Risk Management
- Trust Systems
- Management if the Enterprise