Geoffrey C. Bowker

Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University

Interests: History and sociology of information infrastructures; cyberinfrastructure; engagement of social scientists in design; value-centered design

I work in the Center for Science, Technology and Society (CSTS) at Santa Clara University. Our mission at CSTS is to research and promote the use of science and technology for the common good.

My main current research interests are in the field of classification and standardization: in particular asking how these play into the development of scientific cyberinfrastructure. My recent Memory Practices in the Sciences looks at information infrastructures and storytelling in a science over the past two hundred years. It looks at geology in the 1830s, cybernetics in the 1950s and environmental sciences today - weaving together their information infrastructure and the stories that they tell about their objects. My next book after that How to Read a Database is currently 5 words long.

My work on information infrastructure involves looking at shifting classification systems in medicine, distributed collaborative work practices in environmental science, data sharing practices and biodiversity informatics. My central analytic question here is how scientists in the various sciences contributing to the subject of biodiversity communicate both with each other and with policymakers - and in particular how do the data structures and practices in use affect this communication. Here is an interview with me about classification and infrastructure. I have written a paper with Marc Berg on medical records; and another one with Leigh Star on classification, standards and actor-network theory. See my web page for a more complete set of papers. My main current project is on Interoperability in all its forms. The Interoperability site provides links to papers and such, and there is an interoperable pdf file describing some of the work and an operable set of nuggets on the site.

My book on information management and industrial geophysics at Schlumberger, Science on the Run, is to be found in quality bookshops in airports everywhere; my book with Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences was published by MIT Press in October, 1999 and is available at your neighborhood online bookseller. A paperback version came out in September 2000. I am working right now (even as you are reading this) on distributed scientific work, with an emphasis on social and organizational features of emerging scientific cyberinfrastructures. I am on the editorial board of The Information Society, Information and Organization, Metascience and Social Studies of Science.

Paul N. Edwards

School of Information, University of Michigan

Interests: History of information technology and infrastructures

Paul N. Edwards is an associate professor in the School of Information. In 2000, he founded the U-M Science, Technology & Society Program, serving as director from 2000-03 and 2005-06.

Before joining SI in January 1999, Edwards was senior research scholar and lecturer in the Program in Science, Technology and Society and in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.

In 2003, Edwards was named a Carnegie Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow. The awards allowed him to spend a year in South Africa on a research project entitled "The Technopolitics of Information Infrastructure in South Africa: Apartheid, Regime Change, and Legitimate Sovereignty."

His areas of expertise are the history, politics, and cultural aspects of:

• Computers, networks, and information infrastructures
• Computer models of climate and Earth systems
• Global data networks

Edwards is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. In addition, he is the author of one book, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT Press, 1996), and co-editor of two others: Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001). He is presently completing a second monograph, tentatively titled "The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics," expected to appear in 2007 with MIT Press.

Steven Jackson

School of Information, University of Michigan

Interests: Simulation and public policy; water, energy, and resource infrastructures; IT and democratic governance

My work explores the growing contributions of IT forms and practices — most notably computer modeling and simulation techniques — to the practice of democratic administration and governance. To date, I’ve focused primarily on the development of water simulation models in the American Southwest (the subject of my Ph.D. dissertation), though current work seeks to build this out in a comparative direction. Pragmatically, I’m interested in notions and standards of ‘virtual accountability’ that might improve efficiency, effectiveness, and deliberative equity at the IT / policy interface. Additional research and teaching interests lie in the analysis and design of information policy; information technologies and international development; and the application of socio-historical theory and method to the study of contemporary information systems and practices.

I hold a Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. in Political Economy (from Carleton University, Ottawa). Before arriving in Michigan I spent a year as a Fellow at the National Center for Digital Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Mark Ackerman

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and School of Information, University of Michigan

Mark Ackerman is an associate professor in the School of Information and an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Previously, he was an associate professor at the University of California at Irvine.

Ackerman's research focuses on such areas as privacy, organizational memory or collaborative information access, collective information reuse, and online communities. He is part of the SocialWorlds research group that studies these areas of interest.

His research group focuses on considering the interplay of the social world with computational systems. Ackerman is interested in co-design spaces -- places where you need to consider how to incorporate elements of the social world within software systems (such as with computer-supported cooperative work systems) and also consider how systems will affect their social settings in return. In some cases, such as privacy, both have to be designed or at least considered simultaneously. This kind of research requires a dual emphasis on both the technology and the social structures of its use.

In 2000-01, while on leave from Irvine, he was principal research scientist of Project Oxygen in the Laboratory for Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Paul Avery

Physics, University of Florida

Interests: High energy physics, GriPhyN project

My research is in experimental High Energy Physics and I participate in the CLEO experiment at Cornell University and the CMS experiment at CERN, Geneva. My interests include (1) decays of heavy quarks, (2) software, including OO methods and fitting algorithms, and (3) computing, especially distributed computing and Computational Grids.

I am Director of two NSF funded Grid projects, GriPhyN and the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL). Both projects are collaborations of computer scientists, physicists and astronomers conducting Grid research applied to several national and international experiments with massive computational and data needs. I am co-Principal Investigator on CHEPREO, which is using Grid technology and advanced networking to advance important education and outreach goals, UltraLight, which is integrating advanced networking into data intensive computing infrastructures and DISUN (Data Intensive Science University Network), an advanced Grid facility consisting of University of Florida, Caltech, UCSD, UCLA and University of Wisconsin, Madison. My group is a founding member of the Open Science Grid consortium that operates a national Grid consisting of dozens of laboratory and university sites. University of Florida is a major site on OSG as well as a Tier-2 site in the worldwide computing infrastructure for the CMS experiment.

My group also participates actively in several High Performance Computing initiatives at the University of Florida, where I am a member of the HPC Committee.

Fran Berman

San Diego Supercomputer Center

Not attending - Dr. Berman contributed to the conceptualization and planning of the History and Theory of Infrastructure project, but is unable to attend the September workshop.

Dr. Francine Berman is Professor in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and first holder of the High-Performance Computing Endowed Chair in the Jacobs' School of Engineering at UC San Diego. Dr. Berman is a pioneer in grid computing and an international leader in the development of cyberinfrastructure. She has worked extensively in the areas of adaptive middleware, parallel programming environments, scheduling, and high performance computing.

Since 2001, Dr. Berman has served as Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) where she leads a staff of more than 400 interdisciplinary scientists, engineers, and technologists in the innovation and provision of national-scale cyberinfrastructure.

SDSC is a global leader in data cyberinfrastructure, and works closely with the National Science Foundation, National Archives and Records Administration, Library of Congress, Department of Energy, and other federal agencies to innovate and support a national information and computational infrastructure. Focusing on data modeling, analysis and simulation through high performance computing, data stewardship and preservation through a unique large-scale national storage and management environment, and data transformation through the provision of software and visualization tools, workbenches, and collaborations, SDSC is recognized internationally for its contributions.

As Director of SDSC, Dr. Berman is considered both a visionary and a pragmatist, and is widely recognized as a national leader in the development of a comprehensive data cyberinfrastructure.

Dr. Berman is one of the two founding Principle Investigators of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project, and also directed the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), a consortium of 41 research groups, institutions, and university partners with the goal of building national infrastructure to support research and education in science and engineering.

She serves on a variety of national and international groups and committees, including the National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Committee and the National Institutes of Health's NIGMS Advisory Committee. For her accomplishments, leadership, and vision, Dr. Berman was recognized in 2004 as one of the top women in technology by BusinessWeek, as one of the top technologists by IEEE Spectrum, and most recently as a leader in science and technology by Newsweek.

Christine Borgman

Library and Information Science, UCLA

Interests: Digital libraries

Christine L. Borgman is Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA and Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, England. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Economic Sciences and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and a Scholar-in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Advisory Council to the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering of the National Science Foundation, the Advisory Board to the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery Public Policy Committee.

Michael Buckland

School of Information, UC Berkeley

Interests: Information management, metadata

Paul Duguid

School of Information, UC Berkeley

Interests: Social uses of information, history and economics of infrastructure, value creation and innovation

Paul Duguid is adjunct professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley; professorial research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he was an ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellow in the spring of 2005; and a research fellow at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University. He is also an honorary fellow of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development at Lancaster University School of Management.

From 2002 to 2005, he was part-time visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organisational and Industrial Sociology. In Spring, 2003, he was maitre de recherche at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. From 1989 to 2001 he was a consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Prior to that he was a member of the Institute for Research on Learning.

In fall 20065, he will be co-teaching two courses in the School of Information at Berkeley, one on the quality of information and one on the history of information. The first explores his interests in questions of the authority, authenticity, and warranting of information. (He is also working in the not unrelated field of brand and trademark history.) The second explores the history of information technologies while addressing questions of technological determinism.

His interest in multidisciplinary, collaborative work has led him to work with social scientists, computer scientists, economists, linguists, management theorists, and social psychologists. His writing has appeared in a broad array of scholarly fields and journals including anthropology, business and business history, cognitive science, computer science, design, education, economic history, human-computer interaction, information science, management, organization theory, and wine history. Duguid has also written for a variety of less specialized publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Nation, and the Threepenny Review.

Cecilia Deluca

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Interests: Simulation modeling and software engineering

Cecelia DeLuca is a lead on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) project and the manager of its core software implementation team. The ESMF is a multi-agency initiative to develop infrastructure for climate, weather, and data assimilation applications. DeLuca also helps to guide the software development effort for the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), serves as the NCAR Project Manager for the ESMF-based Battlespace Environments Institute, and is a lead on the Earth System Curator project, an NSF-funded effort to create an Earth system knowledge environment by combining the ESMF with data services.

Cecelia DeLuca's interests include the design of large, high-performance software systems, particularly those relating to atmospheric science; parallel numerical methods; and software engineering tools and processes. Her background is a mix of liberal arts (A.L.B. Harvard 1990), engineering (M.S. Boston University 1994), and atmospheric science (M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1996). Prior to coming to NCAR, she worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a design lead on the development of the Space-Time Adaptive Processing Library (STAPL) parallel framework for real-time radar applications. STAPL is now subsumed under the Vector Signal and Image Processing Library++ (VSIPL++) project, which is extending the serial VSIPL standard to hybrid shared memory/distributed architectures under the High Performance Embedded Computing Software Initiative.

Bill Dutton

Director, Oxford Internet Institute

William H. Dutton (B.A. University of Missouri; M.A., PhD. SUNYBuffalo, 1974) is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Co-director of the e-Horizons Institute, and Director of the Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) Project, a node within the UK's National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS).

Tineke Egyedi

Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and President, European Academy for Standardization

Interests: Standards and technology dynamics, standardization policy

Tineke Egyedi (1960, PhD) is senior researcher Standardization at the ICT/TPM Department of the Delft University of Technology. Since 1990 she worked, first intermittently and since 2000 uninterrupted, for the TU Delft (researcher), for KPN Research (consultant, 1994), for the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (researcher, 1995-1996), and for the University of Maastricht (researcher; 1997-1998). In these capacities she did policy studies for Dutch ministries (e.g. on trends in standardization), participated in European projects many of which dealt with IT standardization (e.g. ELECTRA, SLIM, Consortium standardization, Standard Development Organizations & users, NO-REST), and developed educational material about standardization (IEC). Her current projects address the tension between standards and infrastructure flexibility (Next Generation Infrastructures), standards dynamics and interoperability issues (Sun Microsystems), and the EU's ICT standardization policy (EU project).

Among other activities, she has coordinated the department's Infrastructure Research program, chaired IEEE standardization conferences and conference program committees, and organized conference tracks. Currently she leads several research projects, is associate editor of the International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (Idea Group), and member of the editorial board of Computer Standards and Interfaces (Elsevier). She has co-edited books, conference proceedings and special journal issues. Since June 2005 she is president of the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS).

Tom Finholt

School of Information, University of Michigan

Interests: Collaboratories

Thomas Finholt is research associate professor and associate dean for research and innovation at the School of Information and an adjunct assistant professor of psychology. He is also director of the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW) and the Center for Information Technology Integration.

Finholt's research focuses on the design, deployment, and use of cyberinfrastructure in science and engineering. He was a co-developer of the world's first operational collaboratory, the Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC), which was a finalist in the science category for the 1998 Smithsonian/Computerworld awards. His recent work has focused on the development of NEESgrid, the collaboratory component of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). He has also conducted research on the impact of geographic dispersion and computer-mediated communication on trust and performance in virtual teams, on the effect of electronic and cash incentives on response rates for online surveys, and on the use of archived digital content. He co-founded the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW), and has served as the director of CREW since 1997.

Ian Foster

Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago / Argonne National Labs

Interests: Grid computing

Ian Foster is Director of the Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, where he is also the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science. His research deals with distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies; the applications of those technologies to scientific problems; and the mechanisms and policies needed to create and operate scalable scientific "cyberinfrastructures."

Jane Fountain

Director, National Center for Digital Government, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Interests: Technology, governance and public administration

Jane E. Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, is founder and Director of the National Center for Digital Government and Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Initiative and the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research is focused at the intersection of institutions, global information and communication technologies, and governance.

Fountain is the author of Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), which was awarded an Outstanding Academic Title 2002 by Choice, and has been translated into and published in Chinese, Portuguese and Japanese. Her current book project, Women in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), focuses on gender, institutions and technology. She has published research on information and communication technology and the development of networked forms of organization and governance in Governance, Technology in Society, Science and Public Policy, The Communications of the ACM, and other scholarly journals. Fountain has served on several governing bodies convened to foster research on information and communication technologies and governance. She holds a double PhD from Yale University, in organizational behavior and in political science.

Al Hammond

School of Law, Santa Clara University

Interests: Telecommunications law and policy

Professor Hammond is a graduate of Grinnell College (B.A., 1972), the School of Law (J.D., 1975) and the Annenberg School of Communications (M.A. 1977) at the University of Pennsylvania.

His prior positions include: Attorney and Program Manager, Minority Telecommunications Development Program, NTIA (1977-79); General Counsel, WJLA-TV (1979-82); Lecturer, Howard University (1982-83); Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law (1983-85); Senior Attorney, Media Access Project (1983-85); Senior Attorney, MCI Communications Corporation/Satellite Business Systems (1985-87); Assoc. General Counsel, MCI Communications Corp. (1988-89); and Director, New York Law School Communications Media Center, and Professor at New York Law School (1989-1997).

His areas of specialization include sontracts and a seminar in communications law entitled digital law.com. He teaches courses in Mass Communications, Cyberspace and Contracts Law.

Professor Hammond is the current President of the Alliance for Public Technology; Program Chair of Law and Public Policy, Center for Science Technology and Society at Santa Clara University; and a board member and past chair of the SBC Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel.

Robert E. Kahn

Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Robert E. Kahn is Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986 after a thirteen year term at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). CNRI was created as a not-for-profit organization to provide leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure.

After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Dr. Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively. He worked on the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and then became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He took a leave of absence from MIT to join Bolt Beranek and Newman, where he was responsible for the system design of the Arpanet, the first packet-switched network. In 1972 he moved to DARPA and subsequently became Director of DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). While Director of IPTO he initiated the United States government's billion dollar Strategic Computing Program, the largest computer research and development program ever undertaken by the federal government. Dr. Kahn conceived the idea of open-architecture networking. He is a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating DARPA's Internet Program. CNRI provides the Secretariat for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Dr. Kahn also coined the term National Information Infrastructure (NII) in the mid 1980s which later became more widely known as the Information Super Highway.

In his recent work, Dr. Kahn has been developing the concept of a digital object architecture as a key middleware component of the NII. This notion is providing a framework for interoperability of heterogeneous information systems and is being used in many applications such as the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). He is a co-inventor of Knowbot programs, mobile software agents in the network environment.

Dr. Kahn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a former member of its Computer Science and Technology Board, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAAI, a Fellow of ACM. He is a former member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, a former member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and the President's Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure.

He is a recipient of the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award, the Marconi Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the President's Award from ACM, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the ACM Software Systems Award, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Award, the ASIS Special Award and the Public Service Award from the Computing Research Board. He has twice received the Secretary of Defense Civilian Service Award. He is a recipient of the 1997 National Medal of Technology, the 2001 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award, and the 2004 A. M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. Dr. Kahn received the 2003 Digital ID World award for the Digital Object Architecture as a significant contribution (technology, policy or social) to the digital identity industry. In 2005, he was awarded the Townsend Harris Medal from the Alumni Association of the City College of New York, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the C & C Prize in Tokyo, Japan. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in February 2006.

Dr. Kahn has received honorary degrees from Princeton University, University of Pavia, ETH Zurich, University of Maryland, George Mason University, and the University of Central Florida, and an honorary fellowship from University College, London.

John King

Vice-Provost for Academic Information, University of Michigan

From January 2000 to the end of May 2006 I was Dean of the School of Information -- the best job I have ever had, working with the best people you can imagine. At the beginning of June 2006 I left the SI Deanship and assumed the role of Vice Provost for Academic Information, a newly created position working for the Provost. This job entails working closely with the university's IT infrastructure at all levels, as well as the university libraries and other knowledge assets, as we prepare the University of Michigan for a major transformation that is emerging for all of higher education in the coming decade.

Kalle Lyytinen and I published a book in summer of 2006 with John Wiley and Sons titled Information Systems: The State of the Field. It explores the recent controversies facing the academic field of information as it searches for identity and legitimacy. The book contains our papers Reach and Grasp and Nothing at the Center: Academic Legitimacy in the Information Systems Field. We are just finishing up a special issue of MIS Quarterly on standardization as a focus of research in the information system field that should appear in late-2006.

I spent four months in Germany in spring/summer of 2005 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies. This visit was supported by the German Fulbright Commission as well as the university. I was hosted by the Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften (the faculty of economics and business) and the Institut fur Wirtschafts Informatik (institute for information systems).

Margaret Hedstrom and I have continued our work on epistemic infrastructure. The original paper we did for the OECD a while back. A more recent paper is forthcoming in a book from MIT Press. The former is a longer and more complete explication of the ideas; the latter is shorter and focuses on one part of the overall argument.

Kalle Lyytinen and I published our paper on Automotive Informatics in Transforming Enterprise, edited by Bill Dutton, Brian Kahin, Ramon OCallaghan, and Andrew Wycoff, and published by MIT Press in 2004.

Margaret Elliott and I have published a paper, A Common Information Space in Criminal Courts: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Case Management Systems in the Proceedings of the 28th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, 2005.

Ken Kraemer and I have a paper titled Information Technology and Administrative Reform: Will E-Government Be Different? in the International Journal of Electronic Government Research.

Christopher (Cal) Lee

School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina

Interests: Digital archives standards, preservation, electronic records management

Cal is Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests include digital preservation, electronic records management and standardization. Lee served as Electronic Records Project Archivist at the Kansas State Historical Society and has held a variety of leadership positions for the Society of American Archivists. He has an MSI and PhD from the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He recently conducted an in-depth study of the development of the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), which is a very prominent international standard for digital archives. Current projects include the development of an institutional repository for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and design of a model curriculum and set of field experiences to prepare students for careers in digital curation.

Kalle Lyytinen

Information Systems, Case Western University

Interests: Software development, architecture, and requirements engineering

Kalle Lyytinen is a Professor of Information Systems at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and an adjunct professor at the University of Jyvaskyla. He currently develops courses and teaches advanced-degree students and executives on topics related to systems development, risk management and electronic and mobile commerce. He was educated at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland where he has studied computer science, accounting, statistics, economics, theoretical philosophy and political theory. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science, and a masters and Ph.D. in economics (computer science). He speaks fluently in Finnish and Swedish as well as English.

Kalle is an active researcher and writer. He has published eight books, over fifty journal articles and over eighty conference presentations and book chapters. He is well known for his research in computer-supported system design and modeling, system failures and risk assessment, computer-supported cooperative work and the diffusion of complex technologies. He is currently researching the development and management of digital services and the evolution of virtual communities. Kalle is also active in the international information systems community. He has served in leadership positions for several academic organizations, conferences and journals. He also reviews research grants for the National Science Foundation, the Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish and British Research Councils, and the European Union. He currently serves on the editorial boards of ten information system and organization theory journals.

Kalle consults to organizations on issues of systems development, new media and mobile commerce. His clients have included large retail chains, global manufacturers, software houses, telecommunications companies, governmental departments and major libraries.

Prior to joining Weatherhead, Kalle was the Dean of the Faculty of Technology at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. He has held visiting positions at the Royal Technical Institute of Sweden, the London School of Economics, the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Georgia State University, Aalborg University, The University of Pretoria, South Africa and Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Tom Misa

Director, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

Thomas J. Misa is a historian specializing in the interactions of technology and modern culture. His recent book, Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present (Johns Hopkins, 2004) uses carefully chosen thematic case studies to illustrate how technologies are products of ongoing social and cultural processes. The book ranges from Renaissance-era court technologists like Leonardo da Vinci through to the contemporary global economy. His earlier book, A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America (Johns Hopkins, 1995) was awarded the Society for the History of Technology's Dexter Prize. He has co-edited two volumes: Modernity and Technology (MIT, 2003) and Managing Technology in Society (Pinter/Cassell, 1995). He is presently involved with the “Tensions of Europe” international network, which examines the role of technology in the making of 20th century Europe. An edited volume on European cities and technology is forthcoming.

At Illinois Institute of Technology (1987-2005) he taught courses on computer history, the global economy, technology and culture, business history, industrial culture, technological risk, and history of engineering. His undergraduate degree is from M.I.T. (1981) and his Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania (1987).

Gary Olson

School of Information, University of Michigan

Interests: Human-computer interaction, collaboratories

Gary M. Olson is Paul M. Fitts Collegiate Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the U-M, a professor in the School of Information, and a professor in the Department of Psychology.

Olson is a member of the prestigious CHI Academy, along with Professors Judy Olson and George Furnas. Together they form one of the largest groups of members from a single human-computer interaction program anywhere. The CHI Academy honors individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. Members are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the disciplines and led the research. Selection criteria are cumulative contributions to the field, influence on the work of others, and development of new research directions. The Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery oversees the CHI Academy.

In 2006, he served as chair of the CHI 2006 annual conference in Montreal. It is the premier international conference for students, faculty, and researchers in the human-computer interaction field.

At the CHI conference, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals for outstanding contributions to the study of human-computer interaction. The award recognizes a lifetime of innovation and leadership. Criteria for the award are cumulative contributions to the field, influencing the work of others, and developing new research directions.

Olson served on active duty as a lieutenant in the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1970-73, working as an experimental psychologist at the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory in Groton, Connecticut. In 1973 he joined the faculty of Michigan State University as an assistant professor of psychology. He moved to the University of Michigan in 1975, where he has been since. During 1989-90 he was on sabbatical leave in Cambridge, England. Since 1993 he has been professor of psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing.

Olson has published numerous articles and chapters on topics in basic and applied cognitive science. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Education, Arthur Andersen & Co., Ameritech, Apple Computer, Steelcase, Inc., the Grant Foundation, and the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. He has also directed several activities in cognitive science funded by the Sloan Foundation.

He has served on the editorial boards of Psychological Review, Memory and Cognition; Development Psychology; Journal of Organizational Computing; Human-Computer Interaction, and Cognitive Science; as well as serving as an ad hoc reviewer for dozens of other journals. He has also served on grant review panels at the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society. He was co-chair of the overall technical program for CHI '91 and CSCW '96, and co-chair of DIS '95 and DIS '97, all conferences sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery.

His research interests are in the areas of applied cognitive science, particularly human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Specifically, he is working on topics in the area of computer support for collaborative activities, particularly when conducted at a distance. He has conducted both laboratory and field studies of teams carrying out various forms of complex intellectual activities. A major current interest is the design and evaluation of collaboratories to support distributed science and engineering. He has published more than 80 scientific papers, and edited three books. He has also done collaborative research with colleagues in China and Japan.

From 1985-94, Olson served as the director of the Cognitive Science and Machine Intelligence Laboratory (CSMIL), a joint venture of the School of Business Administration, the College of Engineering, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. From 1994-97 he served as director of the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, an interdisciplinary laboratory with faculty from five different schools and colleges.

Olson was appointed interim dean of the School of Information on September 24, 1998 and served until December 31, 1999. Until April 30, 2006, Olson served as associate dean for research at the School of Information.

David Ribes

School of Information, University of Michigan

Interests: GEON, sociology of cyberinfrastructure

David Ribes is a research investigator at the School of Information. His research interests include the organization of large-scale infrastructure development, the practice of science policy, and the consequences of informational transformations in scientific research. His training is in Sociology with a specialization in Science and Technology Studies (STS). His primary methods are ethnographic.

Prior to joining the School of Information David pursued his doctoral studies at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in the Sociology department and the Science Studies Program. His dissertation traces development in the Cyberinfrastructure project GEON (the Geo Sciences Network) . GEON seeks to provide computing, visualization and data integration resources to the broader earth sciences. David's research focuses on the practical processes of work across distance, institutional difference and technical expertise in building an umbrella community infrastructure for the earth sciences. David shows how integrating -- or 'interoperating' -- the geosciences has involved much more than IT R&D, it has also been a significant social and organizational undertaking. In building GEON members have had to navigate the multiple existing institutions of earth science and the diversity domain knowledges while simultaneously developing a distributed organization and information infrastructure. The primary method for data collection involved a three year multi-site esthnography including participant observation, interviews and document analysis. On several occasions David intervened on the GEON project providing formal feedback on social and organizational aspects of ongoing development.

In conjunction with his dissertation research David has also worked on Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) and Ocean Informatics (OI) at Scripps Institution for Oceanography. These two projects and David's GEON research came together in a cross-case analysis dubbed the Comparative Interoperability Project (CIP). This project was conducted in collaboration with historian Geoffrey Bowker, information scientist Karen Baker and communications researcher Florence Millerand.

Richard Rood

Department of Atmosphere, Ocean, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan

Kjeld Schmidt

IT University of Copenhagen

Interests: Computer supported cooperative work

Coming from a background in sociology, I have since 1985 devoted my research to the area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). In this work I have been primarily focusing on "ordering systems", i.e., the mundane practices of ordering that are essential to the coordination of any professional cooperative work effort. These practices often form elaborate complexes of coordinative protocols and associated artifacts (e.g., classification, scheduling, and naming schemes). They are developed by members of the various work domains in an evolutionary process of amendment and adaptation, aggregation and segmentation, combination and recombination, emulation and transplantation, etc. It is this distributed and yet collaborative process of open-ended construction I am trying to understand, so that we may develop new kinds of computational technology that may improve the abilities of ordinary professional practitioners to express their coordinative protocols in computational artifacts.

The central texts on my work on these issues are:

• Schmidt, Kjeld; and Carla Simone: 'Coordination mechanisms: Towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design', Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), vol. 5, no. 2-3, 1996, pp. 155-200.
• Schmidt, Kjeld; and Ina Wagner: 'Ordering systems: Coordinative practices and artifacts in architectural design and planning', Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), vol. 13, no. 5-6, 2004, pp. 349-408.

Parallel to this work, I have since 1992 been Editor-in-Chief of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing, published by Springer (formerly Kluwer).

Johan Schot

History of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology

Not attending - Dr. Schot contributed to the conceptualization and planning of the History and Theory of Infrastructure project, but is unable to attend the September workshop.

Johan Schot (1961) is professor in social history of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is scientific director of the Foundation for the History of Technology. He has been program leader of the National Research Program on the History of Technology in the Netherlands in the 20th century. This program included the publication of a series of seven volumes. He is co-founder (together with Kurt Fischer) of the Greening of Industry Network and projectleader of several EU funded international projects. He is chairing (with Ruth Oldenziel) the European Science Foundation Network Tensions of Europe, Technology in the Making of Twentieth Century Europe. He present research interest in the role of transnational infrastructures in the making of 20th century Europe. His research work and publications range from history of technology, science and technology studies, innovation and diffusion theory, constructive technology assessment, environmental management, and policy studies. His book publications include ‘A Dutch History of Transport’ in: Techniek in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw, volume V (Walburg Pers 2002); (with Tom Misa and Arie Rip as co-editors) Managing Technology in Society. The Approach of Constructive Technology Assessment (Pinter Publisher 1995), and (with Remco Hoogma, René Kemp and Benhard Truffer (as co-authors), Experimenting for Sustainable Transport. (SPON Publishers 2002).

Leigh Star

Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University

Interests: Sociology of infrastructure, standards, and classification

Star's research has been in the sociology of science and technology, especially concerned with new information technologies and life sciences. She has analyzed work practices and knowledge production in a range of venues, including museums, laboratories, hospitals, libraries and high-tech research and development sites. Her analytic approach draws on symbolic interactionism, activity theory, and feminist theory.

Jane Summerton

Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University (Sweden)

Interests: History of large technical systems, technology and politics in historical context

Not attending - Dr. Summerton contributed to the conceptualization and planning of the History and Theory of Infrastructure project, but is unable to attend the September workshop.

Fred Turner

Department of Communication, Stanford University

Interests: Social and Cultural history of new technologies

Fred Turner's research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism and the intersection of media and cultural history.

Turner is the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (Anchor/Doubleday; 2nd ed. University of Minnesota Press), as well as articles on televisual politics and dot.com mythology. He is currently researching the impact of Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth publications on contemporary cyberculture.

Before joining the faculty at Stanford, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He also worked as a journalist for ten years. His news stories, features and reviews have appeared in a variety of venues, including the Pacific News Service, the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine.

Turner earned his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego, in 2002. He has also earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University and an M.A. in English from Columbia University.

Erik van der Vleuten

History of Technology Department, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)

Interests: Theory of infrastructure development, electrification, water infrastructure

Erik van der Vleuten is Assistant Professor at the HPTS Department. After a M.Sc. thesis on the history of steam technology in Denmark and the Netherlands, he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation Electrifying Denmark at the History of Science Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark. From 1999-2002 he worked on the history of infrastructures in the Netherlands in the programme Technology in the Netherlands in the 20 th century (‘TIN20’). Also from 1999 he co-ordinates, with Arne Kaijser, a research network on the history of European infrastructures in the pan-European research project Tensions of Europe. He co-edited a special issue of Knowledge, Technology & Policy on water system building (2003) and of History and technology on the Dutch Networked Nation (2004). He was appointed International Scholar by the Society for the History Of Technology (SHOT) for 2000-2001.

Kevin Walsh

San Diego Supercomputing Center

Kevin Walsh is a member of the technical staff within Enterprise Network Systems at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the Director of the California Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC), as well as being a PHd student in Science Studies at UCSD. Current projects include the CI Channel (www.cichannel.org) and the SDSC E2E project.

Volker Wulf

University of Siegen (Germany)

Volker Wulf is a professor in Information Systems at the University of Siegen , heads a research group on User-centred Software-Engineering (USE) at Fraunhofer FIT , Sankt Augustin and is director of the Institute for Media Research . He is also a founding member of the International Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI), Bonn. After studying computer science and business administration at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Paris VI., he got a Ph.D. at the University of Dortmund and a habilitation degree at the University of Hamburg. He worked as a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA.

His research interests lie primarily in the area of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Knowledge Management, Computer Supported Cooperative Learning, Entertainment Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Participatory Design, and Organizational Computing.

He published more than 170 papers. He edited 10 books among which “Expertise Sharing: Beyond Knowledge Management” and “Social Capital and Information Technology” both with MIT Press Cambridge MA and “End User Development” with Springer Dordrecht are probably best known. As a conference co-chair he hosted the Seventh European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2001) in Bonn and Communities & Technologies (C&T 2003) in Amsterdam.

Wulf spends right now a sabbatical as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and later on at Stanford University, Palo Alto.

JoAnne Yates

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Interests: History of business information systems

Professor JoAnne Yates is Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her interdisciplinary program of research is aimed at understanding how the use of communication and information technology within firms shapes and is shaped over time by its changing organizational, managerial, and technological contexts. This work includes both historical and contemporary studies.

Her first historical book, Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management, focused on the evolution of communication systems in American businesses from 1850 to 1920, the period of an earlier revolution in information and communication technologies. This prize-winning book examined the interlocking evolution of managerial beliefs, information and communication technology, and communication genres (or document types, such as the memo or report) in American firms. This historical study demonstrates many parallels between historical and contemporary developments in the relationships between information technology and organizations. Her new book, Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century, examines the life insurance industry's adoption and use of information technology in the 20th century, focusing on the mutual shaping of information technology and its use. In particular, it demonstrates how the life insurance industry's use of pre-computer tabulating technology shaped its adoption and use of early computers, and how its adoption and use of early computers shaped and was shaped by the technology and the vendor industry.

Professor Yates also studies contemporary electronic communication. After working with Professor Thomas W. Malone and Robert I. Benjamin on papers on electronic markets and hierarchies in the 1980s, she began a long-term collaboration with Professor Wanda Orlikowski on how members of teams and organizations shape use of electronic communication media over time. They have used the notions of genres, genre repertoires, and conversational coherence to study how groups use electronic mail and electronic conferencing to support group activities. They have also looked at changes in temporal and work patterns around new information and communication technology. Currently, she is on a team of five MIT Sloan faculty completing a multi-year NSF grant to study the social and economic implications of Internet technologies. In this work, she collaborates with doctoral students, faculty, and researchers on in-depth studies of how specific groups and organizations use communication and information technologies, and how that use shapes their work, communication, and temporal practices.

Professor Yates was Division Chair of the Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management in 2000/2001, and president of the Business History Conference in 2004/2005. In 1998 she was awarded the Harold F. Williamson, Sr., Medal for mid-career excellence in Business History. She serves on editorial boards or reviews for several journals.

C. Suzanne (Suzi) Iacono

National Science Foundation

Suzi Iacono is Acting Division Director for Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She also serves as the International Advisor for the CISE Directorate. From 2003 to 2005, she headed up the Information Technology Research (ITR) Program, an NSF-wide Priority Area and prior to that was the Program Director for Social Informatics. Prior to coming to NSF, she held a faculty position at Boston University, was a Visiting Scholar at the Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a research associate at the University of California, Irvine. Over the years, she has written journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on Social Informatics. Suzi received her PhD from the University of Arizona in Information Systems and her MA and BA from the University of California, Irvine in Social Ecology.

D. Terence (Terry) Langendoen

National Science Foundation

Terry received his Ph.D. degree in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. He taught at The Ohio State University from 1964 to 1969; at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York from 1969 to 1988; and at the University of Arizona from 1988 to 2005. He retired in July 2005. He has held visiting positions at the Hartford Seminary Foundation (1963-64); the IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights (1964) and Hawthorne (1986-87), New York; University of Pennsylvania (1967); Rockefeller University (1968-69); State University of New York at Buffalo (1970, 1971); University of California, Santa Cruz (1973); University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1974); University of Utrecht (1977), and City University of Hong Kong (1998). He helped organize and was the first Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center (1971-1978), and also organized and directed the undergraduate Linguistics Program at Brooklyn College (1978-1986). He directed the 1986 LSA Linguistic Institute at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona from 1988 to 1997, and later helped create the Master of Science Program in Human Language Technology at the University of Arizona. He is now working as coordinator for cyberinfrastructure in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Foundation.

Mark Weiss

National Science Foundation

Mark Weiss recently returned to the National Science Foundation to serve as Senior Science Advisor in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences after serving for a year as Assistant Director for Social and Behavioral Sciences at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Prior to serving at OSTP he was Program Director for Physical Anthropology at NSF since 1990. As Science Advisor, Mark is involved in a number of Interagency Working Groups, groups tasked with coordinating federal activities in specific areas of science. He is serving, for instance on an IWG on Scientific Collections and another on Obesity.

Before government service Mark was a professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit for 30 years, during which time he was Chair of the Department for 12 years. His research focused on the molecular evolution in humans as well as nonhuman primates.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been awarded an NSF award for Management Excellence on two occasions. Weiss earned his B.A. from Harpur College (now Binghamton University), and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Archer Batcheller

School of Information, University of Michigan

Interests: Infrastructure development in the third world, information and communication technologies for development, cultural effects during technology transfer

Archer Batcheller is a 2nd year PhD student in the school of information.

Workshop role: Archer has created and maintains the workshop website, will handle various details and complications that may arise, and will help produce written reports about the workshop.

Cory Knobel

School of Information, University of Michigan

Cory Knobel is 3rd year PhD student in the School of Information.

Workshop role: Cory has created and is overseeing a blog site to augment workshop participation, coordinates many of the technical components in running the workshop, and will help produce written reports about the workshop.

Sharon Mahoney

School of Information, University of Michigan

Sharon Mahoney is a faculty secretary at the School of Information.

Workshop role: Sharon is coordinating transporatation and accommodations, and has made arrangements for food and meeting space. She is responsible for many of the logistical details that make the workshop run smoothly.