Steve Marsh is an Associate Professor and computational philosopher with extensive experience in the application of human social norms such as trust, forgiveness and wisdom to computational and information systems. He is the inventor of the concepts of Computational Trust and Device Comfort, and the co-originator of Slow Computing. He works primarily towards the empowerment of people through enabling socio-technical systems to enhance awareness, give advice, and provide encouragement. His work has been applied and published in areas as diverse as social psychology, information systems, HCI, CSCW, AI, Information Security and Mobile Device Awareness.  Prior to being with , Steve worked within Canadian Government Laboratories (NRC and CRC) as a research scientist for 16 years, and before that he was a Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Stirling from 1993-1996. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Glasgow and Northumbria University in the UK, and a Mercator Fellow at Darmstadt Technical University. He has been an adjunct professor at Carleton University (Systems and Computer Engineering and Cognitive Science) and the University of New Brunswick (Computer Science) as well as (Business and Information Technology).    Ontario Tech University   Ontario Tech University  Steve has supervised to successful completion Ph.D., Masters and Undergraduate projects in areas such as Human-Computer Interaction, Trust Management, Intrusion Detection, Device Comfort, Privacy, Information Security and Multi-Agent Systems. He is the author or co-author of numerous conferences, journals, and book chapters and the odd patent. Steve is the Chair of IFIP Working Group 11.11 (Trust Management) and Canadian Delegate to IFIP Technical Committee 11 (Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems).