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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 235-246

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... STEVEN ABRAMS manages the Business and Application Modeling group in the Software Technology Department at IBM Research. With that team, he researches and develops tools that help people describe, architect, visualize, validate, and develop enterprise applications more easily and naturally than traditional tools.
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... One goal of the work of the Computer Music Center was to develop a better understanding of how people work on creative tasks in general, and how technology can better support people in these tasks. In his new role, Abrams is taking lessons learned from the music domain and applying them to the creative tasks of designing, architecting, and developing software systems.
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... Currently he is an adjunct professor of physics in the Physics Department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He was a visiting research professor at the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at the University of California, San Francisco, a postdoctoral fellow of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UCB, a UCB Physics Department IBM postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter physics, a distinguished visiting research professor of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Bernard Osher Fellow at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
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... Her current projects include two new books, Coding the Signifier: Rethinking Semiosis from the Telegraph to the Computer and Linking Bodies: Hypertext Fiction in Print and New Media. Her work has been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship in Bellagio, and numerous prizes and awards, including the Distinguished Scholar Medal from the University of Rochester and the Medal of Honor from Helsinki University.
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... She is also affiliated with the Media Research Lab/Center for Advanced Technology in the Computer Science Department at New York University, where she did postdoctoral studies. Other research positions include several years at Xerox PARC in the computer science lab and a position at the Advanced Computer Graphics Lab, RMIT University.
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... , outlines his design and technology philosophy. John Maeda's awards include the 1994 Japan Multimedia Grand Prix for "The Reactive Square," the 1996 Tokyo Type Director's Club Gold Prize for his series of 10 posters for Morisawa, the 1997 Tokyo Type Director's Club Interactive Prize for "12 o'clocks," the 1999 Japan Ministry of Culture Interactive Prize for "one-line.com," the 1999 ID Magazine Gold Prize, the 1999 Milia d'Or nomination, and the 1999 New York Art Director's Club New Media Gold Award for "Tap, Type, Write." He is also a 1999 recipient of the Daimler-Chrysler Design Award.
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... Schwartz began her computer art career as an offshoot of her merger of art and technology, which culminated in the selection of her kinetic sculpture, Proxima Centauri, by the Museum of Modern Art for its epoch-making "1968 Machine Exhibition." She then expanded her work into the computer area, becoming a consultant at the AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM's Thomas T Watson Research Laboratory, and Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations.
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... Results of this work are evident in three areas: technical advances in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and media research; cultural analyses of technical practices; and explorations of strategies for crossdisciplinary synthesis between the two cultures of the humanities/ arts and the sciences/technology. Sengers graduated in 1998 from Carnegie Mellon University with a self-defined cross-disciplinary Ph.D.
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... She designs, develops, directs, and oversees collaborative study projects, workshops, and symposia on technical, strategic, and policy issues in computing and telecommunications. These activities address trends in the relevant science and technology, their uses, and economic and social impacts, providing independent and authoritative analysis and/or a neutral meeting ground for senior people in government, industry, and academia.
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... At MIT she developed and taught a course on public policy for computer science graduate students and pursued personal research interests. Marjory did her undergraduate work at Brown University and her graduate work (as an NSF Graduate Fellow)


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