#Jeff Ubois

Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 3)

(…continues from the previous entry) Ubois: So any other final thoughts on how to promote the concept of responsibility and innovation, you know, in public opinion and with practitioners? I’m also looking for pointers of other people to talk to institutions that are or might be pursuing this line of inquiry. Twidale: I think that ... Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 3)

26/10
2007 10mn
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Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 2)

(…continues from the previous entry) Ubois: At the Bassetti Foundation, we’ve been developing ideas about sustainability in innovation. What makes for sustainable innovation? What are things that would cause innovation to now be sustainable? This kaizen idea seems very much along those lines. Twidale: Sustainability for me means having lots and lots of feedback loops, ... Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 2)

19/10
2007 16mn
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Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 1)

Dr. Michael Twidale is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests include “computer-supported cooperative working and learning; collaborative technologies in digital libraries and museums; user interface design and evaluation; user error analysis; visualization of information and algorithms; and the development of ... Participatory design: an Interview with Dr. Michael Twidale (part 1)

12/10
2007 13mn
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An Interview with Dr.Marc Smith

Dr. Marc Smith is a Senior Research Sociologist leading the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. His group focuses on computer-mediated collective action, and he studies and design enhancements for social cyberspaces. In particular, he is interested in the emergence of social organizations like communities in online conversation and annotation environments. The ... An Interview with Dr.Marc Smith

10/07
2007 44mn
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Transparency, Privacy, and Responsibility: An Interview with Jeff Jonas

More directly and obviously than many forms of innovation, software embodies the values of those who create it. This is particularly true of software used to monitor and direct human activity: in the extreme, it can be a tool that saves lives, or one that enables political repression. Software development therefore provides many examples of ... Transparency, Privacy, and Responsibility: An Interview with Jeff Jonas

05/06
2007 33mn
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Responsibility in Innovation: A Survey of Coming Attractions in Nanotechnology

A Conversation with Lawrence Gasman Lawrence Gasman is the cofounder of NanoMarkets, LLC and author of the recent book, Nanotechnology Applications and Markets, which examines the market for nanotechnology in the healthcare, energy, and information technology sectors, and provides a generalized approach to forecasting the impact of nanotechnology on particular companies and industries. In this ... Responsibility in Innovation: A Survey of Coming Attractions in Nanotechnology

22/03
2007 21mn
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Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute

Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotechnology Christine Peterson writes, lectures, and briefs the media on coming powerful technologies, especially nanotechnology. She is Founder and Vice President, Public Policy, of Foresight Nanotech Institute, the leading nanotech public interest group. Foresight educates the public, technical community, and policymakers on nanotechnology and its long-term effects. She ... Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute

21/02
2007 25mn
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Genetic Testing and its Implications: an interview with Dr. Arthur Caplan

Currently, Dr. Caplan is the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Born in Boston, Caplan did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University, and did his graduate work at Columbia University where he ... Genetic Testing and its Implications: an interview with Dr. Arthur Caplan

25/11
2006 31mn
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An Interview With Dr. Ignacio Chapela

Ignacio Chapela is an assistant professor at University of California Berkeley, who, with colleague David Quist, discovered that illegally grown, genetically modified corn contaminated traditional heirloom corn in Oaxaca, Mexico. That discovery touched off a major controversy, and illuminates many of the issues related to responsibility in innovation that most concern the Fondazione. Jeff Ubois: ... An Interview With Dr. Ignacio Chapela

17/11
2006 23mn
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Introduction

Over the next few months, I’ll be exploring issues related to responsibility in innovation by exploring technologies with significant but not always obvious societal implications through a series of interviews with noted inventors, practitioners, ethicists, academics, and thought leaders in the fields of genetics, nanotech, climate change, and surveillance technologies. In the interviews so far ... Introduction

15/11
2006 2mn
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