Brian R. Gaines (born c. 1938) is a British scientist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary.
He has been editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and of Knowledge Acquisition, and of the Computers and People and the Knowledge-Based Systems book series.
[1] Gaines' research interests have included modelling the socioeconomic infrastructure of information technology, human–computer interaction, cognitive psychology, and systems theory.
Alongside this methods and tools were developed for acquiring knowledge and making it explicit based on experts in a field.
Bryan Gaines [sic] and the Banff school had a big part to play in this scientific and technical field.