About Mark Beaulieu
Mark Beaulieuc/o Sony New Technologies1 Lower Ragsdale DriveMonterey CA 93940 TEL 408 465 1115 FAX 408 642 6412 NET markb@scruznet.com
January 19, 1996
Mark Beaulieu is a senior software engineer developing new personal communicator technology at Sony New Technologies in Mark founded Digital Lantern, maker of the Digital Restaurant Guide of San Francisco, a seasonally published personal guide and interactive map of the 3,300 restaurants of the city. He manages the mapping of San Francisco and the information collected by the Precision Dining Association for the portable as well as an Internet companion sites.
He worked at Metaphor Computer Systems for six years first as a software engineer and then as an industry multimedia business planner looking at trends relevant to Apple and IBM. He wrote white papers for Aldus Corporation analyzing the future of electronic publishing, and has had a career as a software engineer in Silicon Valley with electronic publishing and computer graphic start-ups. Mr. Beaulieu cofounded the Metatext Corporation in 1980 where he developed production typesetting software. Prior to this he was a filmmaker and super-realist painter receiving his M.F.A. from the University of California at Davis.
Mark is currently immersed in a study of the life and work of Marshall McLuhan as a basis for teaching the theory and principles of media to guide media artists and digital media designers. He has made a study of approaches to html web page design and architecture for the Internet as a way to begin talking about social architecture of digital structures. These are being combined to form a new course at SFSU MSP for Spring and Fall 1996.
SHORT BIO
Mark Beaulieu is a senior software engineer at Sony New Technologies Monterey working on General Magic personal communcation software. He is co-author of "Multimedia Demystified" for Apple Computer. Mark also builds Digital Cities as a software architect of Digital Lantern. Based on a study of the complete work of Marshall Mcluhan, he is developing a course on media principles.