Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social
Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director
of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically
trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The
Second Self- Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary
Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen- Identity in the Age of the
Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics- Jacques Lacan and Freud's
French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative Objects- Things
We Think With, Falling for Science- Objects in Mind, and The Inner
History of Devices, all three published by the MIT Press.
William J. Clancey is Chief Scientist of Human-Centered Computing
in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center,
and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human
and Machine Cognition.
Stefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at
MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life,
and Silicon Second Nature.
Yanni Alexander Loukissas is Assistant Professor of Digital Media
in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia
Institute of Technology. He is the author of Co-Designers- Cultures
of Computer Simulation in Architecture.
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