“Relocating Innovation: Places and Practices of Future Making” is presented by Lucy Suchman, Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, March 3, 2017 in the NCSA Auditorium, 1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana.
Lucy Suchman holds a Chair in the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University and was Principal Scientist at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, where she spent twenty years and was manager of the Work Practice and Technology research group. Her books, Human-Machine Reconfigurations (2007) and Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication (1987), both published by Cambridge University Press, provide intellectual foundations for the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence. In 2002 she received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Sciences and the 2010 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award.
Hosted by Recovering Prairie Futures IPRH Research Cluster, Office of the Provost, College of Engineering, College of Media, School of Information Sciences, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
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Thanks to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for this information item.