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{{Short description|Panamaian-born cartoonist (born 1976)}}
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| thesis_title = On performance and stability in open-loop running
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[[File:PhD Comics Open Access Week 2012.ogv|thumb|thumbtime=8:06|A PhD Comics special on the occasion of [[Open Access Week]] 2012.]]
[[File:PhD Comics Open Access Week 2012.ogv|thumb|thumbtime=8:06|A PhD Comics special on the occasion of [[Open Access Week]] 2012.]]
'''Jorge Gabriel Cham''' (Spanish: [ˈxorxe]) (born 1976)<ref name=sciencemag>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1126/science.caredit.a0900042| title = Piled Higher and Deeper: The Everyday Life of a Grad Student| journal = Science| year = 2009| url = http://jorgecham.com/science_magazine.pdf| last1 = Coelho | first1 = Sara}}</ref> is an engineer-turned cartoonist, writer and producer, who writes the web comic strip ''[[Piled Higher and Deeper]]'' (''PhD Comics'').<ref name=sciencemag>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1126/science.caredit.a0900042| title = Piled Higher and Deeper: The Everyday Life of a Grad Student| journal = Science| year = 2009| url = http://jorgecham.com/science_magazine.pdf| last1 = Coelho | first1 = Sara}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Choe|first1=Jaywon|title=The Joke Is on the Ph.D.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24phd-t.html|work=The New York Times|date=22 July 2011}}</ref> Cham was born in Panama and lives in the United States, where he started drawing ''PhD Comics'' as a graduate student at [[Stanford University]].<ref name=stanford>{{cite web |url=http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/ |title=Jorge G. Cham homepage at Stanford |last1=Cham |first1=Jorge |date=2012 |publisher=Stanford University |archive-date=2012-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422025410/http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham}}</ref> He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in six published book collections.<ref>[http://www.ibiology.org/ibiomagazine/issue-2/jorge-cham-creating-phd-comics.html Jorge Cham interview: "Creating PhDComics"]</ref><ref name="phdbooks">{{cite web
'''Jorge Gabriel Cham''' (Spanish: [ˈxorxe]) (born 1976)<ref name=sciencemag>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1126/science.caredit.a0900042| title = Piled Higher and Deeper: The Everyday Life of a Grad Student| journal = Science| year = 2009| url = http://jorgecham.com/science_magazine.pdf| last1 = Coelho | first1 = Sara}}</ref> is an engineer-turned cartoonist, writer and producer, who writes the web comic strip ''[[Piled Higher and Deeper]]'' (''PhD Comics'').<ref name=sciencemag>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1126/science.caredit.a0900042| title = Piled Higher and Deeper: The Everyday Life of a Grad Student| journal = Science| year = 2009| url = http://jorgecham.com/science_magazine.pdf| last1 = Coelho | first1 = Sara}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Choe|first1=Jaywon|title=The Joke Is on the Ph.D.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24phd-t.html|work=The New York Times|date=22 July 2011}}</ref> Cham was born in Panama and lives in the United States, where he started drawing ''PhD Comics'' as a graduate student at [[Stanford University]].<ref name=stanford>{{cite web |url=http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/ |title=Jorge G. Cham homepage at Stanford |last1=Cham |first1=Jorge |date=2012 |publisher=Stanford University |archive-date=2012-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422025410/http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham}}</ref> He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in six published book collections.<ref>[http://www.ibiology.org/ibiomagazine/issue-2/jorge-cham-creating-phd-comics.html Jorge Cham interview: "Creating PhDComics"]</ref><ref name="phdbooks">{{cite web
|url = http://www.phdcomics.com/book.htm
|url = http://www.phdcomics.com/book.htm
|title = The "Piled Higher and Deeper" Book Collections
|title = The "Piled Higher and Deeper" Book Collections
|access-date = 2019-08-25
|access-date = 2019-08-25
|url-status = dead
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|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927233722/http://www.phdcomics.com/book.htm
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|archive-date = 2007-09-27
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He was featured on [[NPR]] on December 20, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125856586|title=Three Books For Surviving Graduate School|first=Adam|last=Ruben|publisher=NPR|date=2010-09-09|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> With physicist Daniel Whiteson, he is the coauthor of ''We Have No Idea'' (2017), a book about [[List of unsolved problems in physics|unsolved problems in physics]].<ref name=wehavenoidea>{{Cite book|title=We have no idea : a guide to the unknown universe|last1=Cham|first1=Jorge|last2=Whiteson|first2=Daniel|publisher=Riverhead Books|year=2017|isbn=9780735211513|location=New York|oclc=956959104}}</ref> In September 2018, Cham and Whiteson debuted the podcast ''Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe'', produced by [[iHeartMedia]], in which the hosts aim to explain popular questions and complex topics about science, technology, and the universe, in the simplest way possible.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/558279/cartoonist-and-physicist-team-explain-universe-new-science-podcast|title=A Cartoonist and Physicist Team Up to Explain the Universe in New Science Podcast|date=2018-09-25|website=mentalfloss.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-08}}</ref> In May 2019, [[PBS Kids]] announced ''[[Elinor Wonders Why]]'', a new animated series co-created by Cham that premiered on September 7, 2020.<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/pbs-kids-announces-new-series-elinor-wonders-why-premiering-september-7-2020/ Announcement: "PBS KIDS Announces New Series ELINOR WONDERS WHY"]</ref>
He was featured on [[NPR]] on December 20, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125856586|title=Three Books For Surviving Graduate School|first=Adam|last=Ruben|publisher=NPR|date=2010-09-09|access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref> With physicist Daniel Whiteson, he is the coauthor of ''We Have No Idea'' (2017), a book about [[List of unsolved problems in physics|unsolved problems in physics]].<ref name=wehavenoidea>{{Cite book|title=We have no idea : a guide to the unknown universe|last1=Cham|first1=Jorge|last2=Whiteson|first2=Daniel|publisher=Riverhead Books|year=2017|isbn=9780735211513|location=New York|oclc=956959104}}</ref> In September 2018, Cham and Whiteson debuted the podcast ''Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe'', produced by [[iHeartMedia]], in which the hosts aim to explain popular questions and complex topics about science, technology, and the universe, in the simplest way possible.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/558279/cartoonist-and-physicist-team-explain-universe-new-science-podcast|title=A Cartoonist and Physicist Team Up to Explain the Universe in New Science Podcast|date=2018-09-25|website=mentalfloss.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-08}}</ref> Cham co-creatored the [[PBS Kids]] animated series ''[[Elinor Wonders Why]]'', which premiered in September 2020.<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/pbs-kids-announces-new-series-elinor-wonders-why-premiering-september-7-2020/ Announcement: "PBS KIDS Announces New Series ELINOR WONDERS WHY"]</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
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}}</ref> and earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Jorge Gabriel|last=Cham |title=On performance and stability in open-loop running |publisher=Stanford University |date=2002 |url=http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/pub/Rise/ClimbingRobotAlumni/cham_thesis.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1177/0278364902021010837| title = Fast and Robust: Hexapedal Robots via Shape Deposition Manufacturing| journal = The International Journal of Robotics Research| volume = 21| issue = 10–11| pages = 869| year = 2002| last1 = Cham | first1 = J. G. | last2 = Bailey | first2 = S. A. | last3 = Clark | first3 = J. E. | last4 = Full | first4 = R. J. | last5 = Cutkosky | first5 = M. R. | s2cid = 9390666}}</ref><ref>{{Cite conference | doi = 10.1109/ROBOT.2001.933183| chapter = Biomimetic design and fabrication of a hexapedal running robot| title = Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.01CH37164)| volume = 4| pages = 3643| year = 2001| last1 = Clark | first1 = J. E. | last2 = Cham | first2 = J. G. | last3 = Bailey | first3 = S. A. | last4 = Froehlich | first4 = E. M. | last5 = Nahata | first5 = P. K. | last6 = Full | first6 = R. J. | last7 = Cutkosky | first7 = M. R. | isbn = 0-7803-6576-3}}</ref> in [[mechanical engineering]] from [[Stanford University]].<ref name="phdabout">{{cite web
}}</ref> and earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Jorge Gabriel|last=Cham |title=On performance and stability in open-loop running |publisher=Stanford University |date=2002 |url=http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/pub/Rise/ClimbingRobotAlumni/cham_thesis.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1177/0278364902021010837| title = Fast and Robust: Hexapedal Robots via Shape Deposition Manufacturing| journal = The International Journal of Robotics Research| volume = 21| issue = 10–11| pages = 869| year = 2002| last1 = Cham | first1 = J. G. | last2 = Bailey | first2 = S. A. | last3 = Clark | first3 = J. E. | last4 = Full | first4 = R. J. | last5 = Cutkosky | first5 = M. R. | s2cid = 9390666}}</ref><ref>{{Cite conference | doi = 10.1109/ROBOT.2001.933183| chapter = Biomimetic design and fabrication of a hexapedal running robot| title = Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.01CH37164)| volume = 4| pages = 3643–3649| year = 2001| last1 = Clark | first1 = J. E. | last2 = Cham | first2 = J. G. | last3 = Bailey | first3 = S. A. | last4 = Froehlich | first4 = E. M. | last5 = Nahata | first5 = P. K. | last6 = Full | first6 = R. J. | last7 = Cutkosky | first7 = M. R. | isbn = 0-7803-6576-3}}</ref> in [[mechanical engineering]] from [[Stanford University]].<ref name="phdabout">{{cite web
|url = http://www.phdcomics.com/about.htm
|url = http://www.phdcomics.com/about.htm
|title = About PhD Comics
|title = About PhD Comics
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}}</ref> He previously worked at [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]] as an instructor and as a researcher on [[Neuroprosthetics|neural prosthetic]]s.<ref name="chamresearch">{{cite web
}}</ref> He previously worked at [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]] as an instructor and as a researcher on [[Neuroprosthetics|neural prosthetic]]s.<ref name="chamresearch">{{cite web
|url = http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/research.html
|url = http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/research.html
|title = Jorge Cham's Research
|title = Jorge Cham's Research
|access-date = 2006-08-13
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|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070227121024/http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/%7Ejgcham/research.html
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|archive-date = 2007-02-27
|archive-date = 2007-02-27
}}</ref> He has now fully devoted to his comic work.<ref>http://jorgecham.com/</ref>
}}</ref> He has now fully devoted to his comic work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jorgecham.com/ |title=Home |website=jorgecham.com}}</ref>


==Cartoonist==
==Cartoonist==
In 2005, Cham became a full time cartoonist and began an invited speaking tour of major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination".<ref name=sciencemag/> To date, he has given hundreds of lectures worldwide.<ref name=chronicle>{{Cite news | title = How the 'Dilbert of Academia' Finds Humor in Grad-School Pain| work = The Chronicle of Higher Education| year = 2019| url = https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Dilbert-of/245636| last1 = Williams June| first1 = Audrey}}</ref> In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic strip and examines the sources of grad students' anxieties. He also explores the guilt and the myths associated with [[procrastination]] and argues that in many cases it is actually a good thing.<ref name="chamspeaking">{{cite web
In 2005, Cham became a full time cartoonist and began an invited speaking tour of major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination".<ref name=sciencemag/> To date, he has given hundreds of lectures worldwide.<ref name=chronicle>{{Cite news | title = How the 'Dilbert of Academia' Finds Humor in Grad-School Pain| work = The Chronicle of Higher Education| year = 2019| url = https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Dilbert-of/245636| last1 = Williams June| first1 = Audrey}}</ref> In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic strip and examines the sources of grad students' anxieties. He also explores the guilt and the myths associated with [[procrastination]] and argues that in many cases it is actually a good thing.<ref name="chamspeaking">{{cite web
|url = http://www.phdcomics.com/speaking.htm
|url = http://www.phdcomics.com/speaking.htm
|title = Jorge Cham's Speaking Tour
|title = Jorge Cham's Speaking Tour
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|archive-date = 2005-07-14
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His book ''We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe'', with physicist Daniel Whiteson, has been translated to over 23 languages,<ref>{{cite web|title=We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe|url=http://phdcomics.com/noidea/}}</ref> was a ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' Best-seller,<ref>{{cite web|title=Der Spiegel Best Seller List May 2018|url=https://www.graff.de/bestseller/spiegel-bestseller/bestseller/0/liste/paperback-sachbuch-29bcd02fa1.html}}</ref> and was awarded the Wen Jin National Book Award in China.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 14th Wenjin Book Award is announced|url=http://www.nlc.cn/newen/nlcnews/201905/t20190517_178409.htm}}</ref>
His book ''We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe'', with physicist Daniel Whiteson, has been translated to over 23 languages,<ref>{{cite web|title=We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe|url=http://phdcomics.com/noidea/}}</ref> was a ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' Best-seller,<ref>{{cite web|title=Der Spiegel Best Seller List May 2018|url=https://www.graff.de/bestseller/spiegel-bestseller/bestseller/0/liste/paperback-sachbuch-29bcd02fa1.html}}</ref> and was awarded the Wen Jin National Book Award in China.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 14th Wenjin Book Award is announced|url=http://www.nlc.cn/newen/nlcnews/201905/t20190517_178409.htm}}</ref>


To give younger children a key skill from the duo itself, Whiteson helped Cham create ''[[Elinor Wonders Why]]'', a show on [[PBS]] that is based on a true story. The duo used Cham's daughter, Elinor Cham, as an inspiration for the series, along with her two favorite stuffed animals, a stuffed bear named Olive and a sock monkey named Ari. They had Elinor depicted as a bunny rabbit other than human, Olive as an elephant other than bear and Ari as a bat other than monkey. The series premiered on September 7, 2020.
Cham is also the co-creator of ''[[Elinor Wonders Why]]'', a show on [[PBS Kids]] that is based on Cham's daughter. The series premiered on September 7, 2020. He is the co-owner of Shoe Ink, which produces the ''[[Elinor Wonders Why]]'' series and ''That's So Interesting'', a live-action short form series hosted by Cham and featuring characters from ''[[Elinor Wonders Why]]'' itself.

As a production company for ''[[Elinor Wonders Why]]'', Cham and his daughter Elinor founded Shoe Ink at the [[9 Story Media Group]] headquarters, which lent the company to [[Boat Rocker Media]].


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{official website|http://jorgecham.com/}}
*{{official website|http://jorgecham.com/}}
*[http://www.phdcomics.com Official website of ''PhD Comics'']
*[http://www.phdcomics.com Official website of ''PhD Comics'']
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*{{Commonscat-inline|Jorge Cham}}


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Jorge Cham
Cham in 2018
Born
Jorge Gabriel Cham

May 1976 (age 47–48)
Bocas Town, Bocas del Toro, Panama
Alma mater
Known forCartoon work - Piled Higher and Deeper
Podcast - Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe
Scientific career
ThesisOn performance and stability in open-loop running (2002)
Doctoral advisorMark Cutkosky[1][2]
Websitejorgecham.com
A PhD Comics special on the occasion of Open Access Week 2012.

Jorge Gabriel Cham (Spanish: [ˈxorxe]) (born 1976)[1] is an engineer-turned cartoonist, writer and producer, who writes the web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics).[1][3] Cham was born in Panama and lives in the United States, where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University.[4] He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in six published book collections.[5][6] He was featured on NPR on December 20, 2010.[7] With physicist Daniel Whiteson, he is the coauthor of We Have No Idea (2017), a book about unsolved problems in physics.[8] In September 2018, Cham and Whiteson debuted the podcast Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, produced by iHeartMedia, in which the hosts aim to explain popular questions and complex topics about science, technology, and the universe, in the simplest way possible.[9] Cham co-creatored the PBS Kids animated series Elinor Wonders Why, which premiered in September 2020.[10]

Early life and education[edit]

Jorge Cham was born and raised in Panama to parents working in the Panama Canal Zone as engineers for the United States Government.[11][12] He received his B.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997,[13] and earned a PhD[2][14][15] in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.[16] He previously worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.[17] He has now fully devoted to his comic work.[18]

Cartoonist[edit]

In 2005, Cham became a full time cartoonist and began an invited speaking tour of major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination".[1] To date, he has given hundreds of lectures worldwide.[19] In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic strip and examines the sources of grad students' anxieties. He also explores the guilt and the myths associated with procrastination and argues that in many cases it is actually a good thing.[20]

In 2012, Cham wrote and produced The PHD Movie, an independent feature-length film based on his comics.[21] The film featured real researchers and academics and was screened at over 500 universities and research centers worldwide.[22][23] In 2015, Cham wrote and produced The PHD Movie: Still in Grad School, a sequel to the first film, which also screened worldwide.[24][25] He also illustrated the book Scientific Paper Writing: A Survival Guide (2015) by Bodil Holst.[26]

Cham has also had six collections of his comics published, with the most recent one — a 20th-anniversary edition — backed by more than $234,000 in pledges on Kickstarter.[19]

His book We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, with physicist Daniel Whiteson, has been translated to over 23 languages,[27] was a Der Spiegel Best-seller,[28] and was awarded the Wen Jin National Book Award in China.[29]

Cham is also the co-creator of Elinor Wonders Why, a show on PBS Kids that is based on Cham's daughter. The series premiered on September 7, 2020. He is the co-owner of Shoe Ink, which produces the Elinor Wonders Why series and That's So Interesting, a live-action short form series hosted by Cham and featuring characters from Elinor Wonders Why itself.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Coelho, Sara (2009). "Piled Higher and Deeper: The Everyday Life of a Grad Student" (PDF). Science. doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a0900042.
  2. ^ a b Cham, Jorge Gabriel (2002). On performance and stability in open-loop running (PDF) (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
  3. ^ Choe, Jaywon (22 July 2011). "The Joke Is on the Ph.D." The New York Times.
  4. ^ Cham, Jorge (2012). "Jorge G. Cham homepage at Stanford". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2012-04-22.
  5. ^ Jorge Cham interview: "Creating PhDComics"
  6. ^ "The "Piled Higher and Deeper" Book Collections". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  7. ^ Ruben, Adam (2010-09-09). "Three Books For Surviving Graduate School". NPR. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  8. ^ Cham, Jorge; Whiteson, Daniel (2017). We have no idea : a guide to the unknown universe. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 9780735211513. OCLC 956959104.
  9. ^ "A Cartoonist and Physicist Team Up to Explain the Universe in New Science Podcast". mentalfloss.com. 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  10. ^ Announcement: "PBS KIDS Announces New Series ELINOR WONDERS WHY"
  11. ^ Grim, Kathryn (March 2009). "Jorge Cham: Piled higher and deeper". Symmetry. Vol. 9, no. 1. pp. 30–35.
  12. ^ Maddaus, Gene (15 May 2013). "Jorge Cham: The Overeducated Cartoonist". L.A. Weekly.
  13. ^ "Pacesetters: Piled High". Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
  14. ^ Cham, J. G.; Bailey, S. A.; Clark, J. E.; Full, R. J.; Cutkosky, M. R. (2002). "Fast and Robust: Hexapedal Robots via Shape Deposition Manufacturing". The International Journal of Robotics Research. 21 (10–11): 869. doi:10.1177/0278364902021010837. S2CID 9390666.
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  29. ^ "The 14th Wenjin Book Award is announced".

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