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Mark Weiser
Dr. Weiser was Chief Technologist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and prior to that headed the Computer Science Laboratory at PARC. He had no bachelor's degree; instead he started two companies in the early 1970s, and when they both went out of business he talked his way into graduate school at the University of Michigan, earning the Ph.D. degree in computer and communications sciences in 1979. Dr. Weiser was assistant and associate professor and associate chair in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland from 1979 to 1987, when he joined Xerox. He published over 80 papers on the psychology of programming, program slicing, operating systems, programming environments, garbage collection, technological ethics, and new business incubation. Dr. Weiser's work after 1988 focused on ubiquitous computing, a program he initiated. Dr. Weiser was the drummer with the rock band "Severe Tire Damage," the first live band on the Internet.
Rich Gold
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304 (electronic mail: richgold@parc.xerox.com).
Mr. Gold is the manager of the "lablette" Research in Experimental Documents (RED) at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He focuses his research on the future of documents and the creation of new document genres, particularly within corporate research facilities and corporate identity programs. Mr. Gold was a primary researcher on ubiquitous computing and the manager of the PARC artist-in-residence program (PAIR). Before coming to PARC, he was a toy designer at Mattel, Inc., a game designer at Sega Enterprises, Ltd., the creator of "Little Computer People," an electronic music composer, a performance artist, and a cartoonist. He holds an M.F.A. degree in electronic music from Mills College, Oakland, California, and undergraduate degrees in English and computer science from the State University of New York at Albany.
John Seely Brown
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304 (electronic mail: jsb@parc.xerox.com).
Dr. Brown is the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). At Xerox, he has expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, ethnographies of the workplace, complex adaptive systems, and techniques for unfreezing the corporate mind. His personal research interests include digital culture, ubiquitous computing, user-centering design, and organizational and individual learning. A major focus of his research over the years has been in human learning and in the management of radical innovation. Dr. Brown holds a B.S. degree in mathematics and physics from Brown University, and an M.S. degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. degree in computer and communication sciences from the University of Michigan.
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