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Colin M. Gray is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology and a Fellow in the Educational Research and Development Incubator. He holds a PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington, a MEd in Educational Technology from University of South Carolina, and a MA in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art & Design.

Dave Kanter comes from a background reaching back to the “pre-Netscape” days of web site and interactive development. He has worked for a number of prestigious companies as a freelance consultant in technology development, production development, programming, project management, and production. Dave is currently a member of the Full-time Faculty of the Design and Technology department at Parsons School of Design, where he mostly teaches classes related to computer programming—although he’s been known to hold forth on a range of subjects.

Morgan G. Ames researches the ideological origins of inequality in the technology world, with a focus on utopianism, childhood, and learning. The questions that drive her current projects concern the ways in which young people construct their identities with computers, and how computers (and the technology design practices that produced them) shape the identities they construct.

Henry Lieberman is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Laboratory, where he has been since 1987. He directs the Software Agents group, which is concerned with making intelligent software that provides assistance to users in interactive interfaces. His current projects involve applying Common Sense Reasoning to interactive applications, and ways of making programming easier for non-experts, through the use of Programming by Example and natural language interfaces.

Dr. Nazanin Andalibi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She is also affiliated with the Center for Social Media Responsibility, the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing, and the Digital Studies Institute. Her research interests are in social computing and HCI. Her work centers around relationships between emotions, identity, and technologies in contexts ranging from social media to artificial intelligence, often with attention to marginalization, social positions, and power.

Satya is an experimental computer scientist who has pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing. One outcome is the open-source Coda File System, which supports distributed file access in low-bandwidth and intermittent wireless networks through disconnected and bandwidth-adaptive operation. The Coda concepts of hoarding, reintegration and application-specific conflict resolution can be found in the hotsync capability of PDAs today. Key ideas from Coda have been incorporated by Microsoft into the IntelliMirror component of Windows 2000 and the Cached Exchange Mode of Outlook 2003.

Andy Wilson is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research. There he has been applying sensing technologies to enable new modes of human-computer interaction. These days he is focused on augmented and virtual reality, ubiquitous computing and interactive computer vision. He contributed to Microsoft’s earliest efforts to commercialize depth cameras, leading to Kinect, and worked extensively on the original Surface interactive table. Before joining Microsoft, Andy obtained his BA at Cornell University, and MS and PhD at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Janet Ward Schofield is a Professor of Psychology and a Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She received a B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Harvard where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 1972.

Sara Kiesler does research on the social and behavioral aspects of computers and computer-based communication technologies. Among her current projects are HomeNet, a study of the personal and social effects of household technology and the Internet, a project on multi-disciplinary collaboration and distributed work, and a project on social and cognitive factors in people’s interactions with autonomous robotic assistants.

Vassilis Kostakos holds a BSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Bath. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Dept of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Madeira, Portugal. Vassilis is a member of the Cityware project, which addresses the fusion of urban space and pervasive technologies. His research interests include: mobile and pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, interaction techniques, complex network analysis, security and privacy, modelling and simulation, epidemics, and crime.

Lorrie Faith Cranor is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She is also Chief Scientist of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc. She has authored over 80 research papers on online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics.

Tanzeem Choudhury is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Dartmouth. She joined Dartmouth in 2008 after four years at Intel Research Seattle. She received her PhD from the Media Laboratory at MIT. Tanzeem develops systems that can reason about human activities, interactions, and social networks in everyday environments. Tanzeem’s doctoral thesis demonstrated for the first time the feasibility of using wearable sensors to capture and model social networks automatically, on the basis of face-to-face conversations.