Biographical sketches of authors
Brian K. Smith
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: bsmith@media.mit.edu).
Dr. Smith joined the faculty of MIT's Media Laboratory in 1997. His research group explores human argument and explanation, developing technologies to assist people in articulation and communication. He received a B.S. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. degree in learning sciences from Northwestern University. He is a coprincipal investigator of the Media Lab's News in the Future consortium, and in 2000 he received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.
Walter Bender
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: walter@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Bender is a senior scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory and principal investigator of the laboratory's News in the Future consortium. He received the B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1977 and joined the Architecture Machine Group at MIT in 1978. He received the M.S. degree from MIT in 1980. Mr. Bender is a founding member of the Media Laboratory.
Ingeborg Endter
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: inge@media.mit.edu).
Ms. Endter is a recent graduate of the Electronic Publishing Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her research interests include communities on the Internet, Web authoring tools, and media tools to preserve community history. Ms. Endter's career before the Media Lab included work with archaeological and photo collections at Harvard University and in software support and business management at various software and service companies. She is currently working as an educator with the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network.
Jack Driscoll
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: driscoll@media.mit.edu).
Mr. Driscoll has been a journalist for the past 50 years, principally at The Boston Globe where he worked for 40 years, seven as Editor. Since 1995 he has been Editor-in-Residence at the MIT Media Lab. He lives in Rye, New Hampshire.
Marko Turpeinen
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: mtu@media.mit.edu).
Dr. Turpeinen is a research assistant at the Media Lab's Electronic Publishing Group. He is primarily working on collaborative tools for enabling and interconnecting active community publishers. Since 1996 he has worked at Alma Media Corporation, a Finnish media company. He has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Helsinki University of Technology.
Dennis Quan
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: dquan@mit.edu).
Mr. Quan graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree in chemistry in 2000. He is currently working in IBM's Advanced Internet Technology group on Sash, a toolkit for developing Windows applications using HTML and JavaScript™. He will be returning to MIT later this year to work toward his Ph.D. degree.
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