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Workshop
Directors:
Geoffrey Bowker
Center for
Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA, USA
[homepage]
Geoffrey C. Bowker is Executive Director,
Regis and Dianne McKenna Chair for the Center
for Science, Technology and Society
at Santa
Clara University.
He was previously Professor in and Chair of the Department of
Communication, University of California, San Diego. His PhD is in
History and Philosophy of Science at Melbourne University. He studies
social and organizational aspects of the development of very large
scale information infrastructures. His first book (Science on the Run,
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) discussed the development of information
practices in the oil industry. He has recently completed with Leigh
Star a book on the history and sociology of medical classifications
(Sorting Things Out: Classification and Practice - published by MIT
Press in September 1999). This book looks at the classification of
nursing work, diseases, viruses and race. He has co-edited a volume on
Computer Support Cooperative Work (Social Science, Technical Systems
and Cooperative Work: Beyond the Great Divide, LEA Press, 1997). He
has, since his invitation to join the biodiversity subcommittee of the
President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology
been working in the field of biodiversity and environmental
informatics. He has just completed a digital government funded project
on long term databases in environmental science. His next book,
entitled Memory
Practices in the Sciences about formal and informal recordkeeping in
science over the past two hundred years; which includes extensive
discussion of biodiversity informatics will be published by MIT Press.
He was 2002-2003 member of an OECD working group on international data
sharing in science. He is working on projects at the San Diego Computer
Center and in the Long Term Ecological Research Network on the
formative evaluation of scientific cyber infrastructures.
Helen Nissenbaum
Department of
Culture & Communication, New York
University
New York, NY, USA
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Helen Nissenbaum
is Associate
Professor in
the Department
of
Culture and Communication and
Faculty Fellow at the Information
Law Institute, both at New
York University. She conducts
research in the social, ethical, and political dimensions of
information and communications technology. Her scholarly publications
span the topics of privacy, property rights, electronic publication,
accountability, the use of computers in education, and values in the
design of computer and information systems. Her research on values in
design, security, and privacy have been supported through grants from
the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Nissenbaum's
books include Emotion and Focus, Computers, Ethics and Social Values
(coedited with D.J. Johnson), and Academy and the Internet (co-edited
with Monroe Prince) and she is a co-founding editor of the journal,
Ethics and Information Technology. At Princeton University, she served
as Associate Director of the University Center for Human Values and
before that held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study
of Language and Information at Stanford University. She holds a B.A.
with honors from the University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg, an M.A.
in Education, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University.
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