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Dario Salvucci is a postdoctoral researcher at Nissan Cambridge Basic Research in Cambridge, MA. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1999 at Carnegie Mellon, where his dissertation investigated automated methods for interpreting human eye movements. His current research explores computational methods of generating and interpreting human cognition and behavior, most recently in the context of user interfaces and driving.

James D. Herbsleb is an associate professor in the Institute for Software Research, International, in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 1996, he was a member of the Software Production Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He led the Bell Labs Collaboratory project since its kickoff in 1998, addressing issues of geographically distributed software development and designing collaborative applications and services. He holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D.

Peter Pirolli is a Research Fellow in the Augmented Social Cognition Area at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he has been pursuing studies of human information interaction since 1991. Prior to joining PARC, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Education at UC Berkeley. Pirolli received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985.

Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator whose work has at its core cross-disciplinary research with a focus on how humans impact the world we inhabit. Her work encourages new formats of exchange and production, many times in collaboration with other practitioners. These works often provide a playful entry point and tools for an audience to gain insight into a deeper field of inquiry—not only to imagine, but to participate in and initiate change in the places we live. Amy founded the artists’ collective and design studio, Futurefarmers, in 1995 and Free Soil in 2004.

Nica Ross is an artist and cultural producer via Brooklyn, San Francisco and Tempe, AZ. Their creative research challenges normative ideologies and social constructions that are reinforced by technology, performance and play. This work takes multiple forms: video installation, performance, gayming, sporting and more. The continuity across these forms is an invitation that is inherent in each piece.

Dr. Gerber is an expert in creativity, design, and technology. As a professor in the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University, she holds an appointment in Mechanical Engineering and by courtesy in Management Science and Industrial Engineering, the Kellogg School of Management, and the School of Education and Social Policy. Dr. Gerber is the principal investigator for the Creative Action Lab which investigates the role of technology (digital tools and work practices) in supporting individual and group creativity.

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Sep Kamvar is the LG Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and Director of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Prior to MIT, Sep was the head of personalization at Google and a consulting professor of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to that, he was founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search company that was acquired by Google in 2003.

Abigail Jacobs is an assistant professor of Information and of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, where she is also affiliated with the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC) and the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). She is a 2024 Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellow. Previously she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a member of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group.

Susan R. Fussell is a Senior System Scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Columbia University in 1990. Dr. Fussell’s primary interests are in the areas of computer-supported cooperative work and computer-mediated communication.

Andreas Stefik is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Washington State University in 2008 and also holds a bachelor's degree in music. Stefik's research focuses on computer programming languages and development environments, with an emphasis on how competing language designs impact people in practice. He won the 2011 Java Innovation Award for his work on the Sodbeans programming environment and is the inventor of the Quorum Programming Language.