My Name is Steve

I drew this (and all the pictures in my textbook too!)

I do not look remotely like this. Except that I do not have hair.

I study trust.

This does not sound very special.

Actually, I look at how people and their tools (computers, AI, things like that) work together to achieve amazing things, and how trust plays a part in all of that.

I call these things Trust Systems.

Which sounds a little more special.

I write about it too.


You can find some of the things I write on this site.


There are also links to other publications on this site.

I wrote a textbook

(Well, I am working on the second edition right now, but it is a process…)

It is about Trust Systems.


It is not your average textbook. It includes video lectures, interviews with experts, learning experiences and more.


And it is free. I like free in education. (Which doesn’t mean I don’t want to get paid for what I do. It means students shouldn’t really have to pay for it while they are students).


Subscribe to hear more about it, including the odd blog post about trust!

I am a Professor of Trust Systems.


I teach Trust Systems, Information Security, and Introductory Management courses in the Faculty of Business and IT.

I am currently working on a set of online videos for learning to code, the “Steve Way.”


They will be free.


I will link to them here when they are ready.

Subscribe to hear more about when they get released!

My teaching involves using technology like Explain Everything, a lightboard I built myself, a great deal of humour, and sometimes music.