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Dr. Sonny Kirkley
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO; Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Informatics, Indiana University
Information in Place, Inc.
sonny.kirkley@iforces.org
Sonny Kirkley, Ph.D. is co-founder of Information in Place, Inc. (IIPI) and serves as its chief executive officer (CEO). Dr. Kirkley is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics at Indiana University and holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology. He has over a decade of experience in developing Internet-based learning environments and information management tools. He has published and presented in the fields of augmented and mixed reality technologies, embedded training, problem-based learning, human-computer interaction, and the utilization of new technologies in various learning settings.
Dr. Kirkley is also founder of the WorldBoard Forum, a university-based standards group developing WorldBoard. WorldBoard seeks to develop a global infrastructure for the deployment of mobile augmented reality. Before starting IIPI, Dr. Kirkley was vice president of product development and co-founder of WisdomTools, a company that develops online training tools. He was a co-inventor and managed the development of Time-Revealed Scenarios, a Web-based learning tool employing problem-based case studies.
Before embarking on the WisdomTools venture, Dr. Kirkley was Assistant Director of Research and Development at the Center for Excellence in Education at Indiana University. There, he managed various teams of staff and consultants in the development of computer-based tools for educators. These included online tools and resources for electronic field trips, developed in collaboration with Turner Educational Services, the educational arm of CNN. He has also delivered training to hundreds of educators, corporate trainers, and university faculty about methodologies for integrating information technologies into their organizations.
In 2003 Kirkley co-founded the Indiana Consortium for Mixed Reality Learning, Performance and Informatics. The Consortium comprises over 30 organizations representing the business, education, community economic development, and military support sectors; it is building the infrastructure of mixed reality resources for Indiana, and will serve a wide range of customers including commercial, military, law enforcement and homeland security organizations.
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