Disciplinary Interests: Engineering

Akilah Jackson
iThink Digital. iLearn Digital. iTeach Digital. Current Position: ELMS Administrator/ University of Maryland Alternative Position: Freelance/Consultant www.starbrite.info Tweets about: Education, Technology, Life, Art, People, Philosophy, Music Location: Mid-Atlantic, East Coast
Abdullah Andi Koro
Abdullah A. Koro is lecturer at Computer Science Graduate Program, Budi Luhur University
C. Sidney Burrus
PhD in EE from Stanford, 1965 BA, BS, MS from Rice, 1957, 58, 60 EE Faculty at Rice, 1965 to present Maxfield & Oshman Professor Emeritus, 1996 to present Fellow of IEEE and AAAS Over 200 papers and 5 books published Various teaching and research awards Dean of Engineering at Rice, 1998-2006
Anne Balsamo
ANNE BALSAMO serves as the Director of Academic Programs of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. She is also a Full Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies. In addition to her academic positions, Anne has been a technologist and new media designer for more than a decade. In 2002, she co-founded, Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC who created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She held the rank of Principle Scientist, and served as project manager and new media designer for the development of RED's interactive museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading. Prior to joining the research staff at PARC, Balsamo was an associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she directed the graduate program in "Information Design and Technology.� Her first book, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996) investigated the social and cultural implications of emergent bio-technologies. Her new book project, Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination examines the relationship between cultural theory, the design of new media, and the ethics of technology development.