Knowledge Futures
Eric McDaniel is an experienced technology professional with a diverse background in engineering management and software development. Currently serving as Engineering Manager at Knowledge Futures since July 2021, Eric previously held roles including Senior Software Engineer in the same company and Principal UI Engineer at Emporos. Eric's extensive experience also includes positions as Engineering Manager and Lead Engineering Consultant at Levvel.io, Web Video Developer at CNN, and Instructor at The Iron Yard, where curriculum design and student mentoring were key responsibilities. Earlier in their career, Eric worked as a Software Engineer at VC3, an Interactive Multimedia Developer at Logistics Systems Incorporated, and a Research Assistant at the University of South Carolina Electron Microscopy Center, where research focused on the effects of TiO2 nanoparticles on crops. Eric holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of South Carolina.
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Knowledge Futures
Knowledge Futures builds public digital infrastructure that enables communities to publish documents and data more effectively. Knowledge Futures is an independent nonprofit organization powered by academic, industry, and advocacy groups. Together we build and support products and protocols to make knowledge open and accessible to all. Founded in 2018 as a partnership between the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab, Knowledge Futures was created to build sustainable tools and technologies for libraries, presses, museums, activist organizations, researchers, and others whose knowledge work seeks to serve collective understanding and the public. What began as a handful of grad students working on publishing tools grew to an organization focused on addressing the systemic challenges faced by public-oriented groups beholden to infrastructure that is designed with misaligned incentives and unjust power dynamics. In September 2019 we formally organized as an independent 501c3 nonprofit. Today, we are committed to building a full-stack of technology protocols and products that demonstrate an effective, equitable, and sustainable knowledge economy is possible. We work with partners to design for interoperability and to catalyze a distributed ecosystem of development.