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CSTS Fellows

The Center for Science, Technology, and Society hosts STS Fellows, who are temporary or off-campus colleagues actively engaged in projects or research collaborations in alignment of the Center's mission and goals. People who are interested in becoming affiliated as STS Fellows are encouraged to contact the Center for more information.

Manuel Castells

undefinedManuel Castells is the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  He is, as well, the Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona.  Prior to his appointment at USC, he was, from 1979 to 2003, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and the British Academy, and has received 15 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. His trilogy, "The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture" (Blackwell 1996-2003), has been translated into 22 languages. Among other appointments, he has been a member of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Committee on Information Technology, and of the President of South Africa's International Advisory Committee on Technology and Development. He is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, the research funding institution of the European Union.

Title of the keynote: 

"ICT and Human Development Beyond the Market Place: Rethinking the Convergence between Industry and Society" Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Brief vita:

Manuel Castells is the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  He is, as well, the Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona.  Prior to his appointment at USC, he was, from 1979 to 2003, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and the British Academy, and has received 15 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. His trilogy, "The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture" (Blackwell 1996-2003), has been translated into 22 languages. Among other appointments, he has been a member of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Committee on Information Technology, and of the President of South Africa's International Advisory Committee on Technology and Development. He is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, the research funding institution of the European Union.

Mike O'Farrell

O'FarrellMike O’Farrell has worked closely with the Center for Science, Technology, and Society since January 2000.  He has served as an ex-officio member of the CSTS Advisory Board and provided crucial guidance and support for the strategic development and effective implementation of the CSTS’ programs.   Similarly, Mike has served on the Executive Committee of The Tech Museum Awards and was personally and deeply involved in the launch and development of that program from its inception.  He brings a deep background in philanthropy, social responsibility and industry to his role as a STS Fellow.  

In January 2007 Mike retired after more than 20 years with Applied Materials, Inc.  In his more than six years as Vice President, Global Community Affairs, Mike’s leadership has had global impact through the company’s internationally recognized philanthropy and community involvement programs.  The company’s commitment to social responsibility has helped earn Applied Materials high rankings on numerous corporate lists such as Fortune’s “America’s Most Admired Companies” and Business Ethics “100 Best Corporate Citizens.”  In October 2006 Mike was the recipient of the Leadership in Action Award by the nonprofit People Acting in Community Together (PACT) for his civic leadership in the Silicon Valley community, especially in the field of education.  

Before assuming his community role, Mike was Vice President, Global Controller, Chief Accounting Officer and Assistant Secretary for Applied Materials.  Mike is a certified public accountant.  He received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley and his MBA from Golden Gate University.  

Mike serves on The National Hispanic University board of trustees, the Silicon Valley Children’s Hospital Foundation Executive Council, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation San Jose Community Advisory Committee, and The Bay School/May Institute Advisory Board.  His past leadership portfolio includes organizations such as the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Bay Area School Reform Collaborative, and Joint Venture Silicon Valley 21st Century Education Initiative.

Paul Duguid

Paul DuguidPaul Duguid ‹duguid at sims.berkeley.edu› is adjunct professor at the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley; professorial research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he was an ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellow in the spring of 2005;, and a research fellow at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University. He is also an honorary fellow of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development at Lancaster University School of Management.

From 2002 to 2005, he was part-time visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organisational and Industrial Sociology. In Spring, 2003, he was maitre de recherche at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. From 1989 to 2001 he was a consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Prior to that he was a member of the Institute for Research on Learning.

In fall 2005, he will be co-teaching a course on the "Quality of Information" in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley. The course in part explores his interests in questions of the authority, authenticity, and warranting of information. He is also working in the not unrelated field of brand and trademark history.

His interest in multidisciplinary, collaborative work has led him to work with social scientists, computer scientists, economists, linguists, management theorists, and social psychologists. His writing has appeared in a broad array of scholarly fields and journals including anthropology, business and business history, cognitive science, computer science, design, education, economic history, human-computer interaction, information science, management, organization theory, and wine history. Duguid has also written for a variety of less specialized publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Nation, and the Threepenny Review.


Bill Kaghan

Bill KaghanBill Kaghan is an engineer and an ethnographer who researches, teaches, and consults on technology and information systems management. Bill began his career as an R&D engineer (Guidance and Control Systems Analysis) at the Boeing Aerospace Corporation where he developed an intense and lasting curiosity about the social nature of engineering work and technological innovation. His dissertation research was centered around a three-year participant-observer field study at a major university technology transfer office where he studied the everyday practices of professional university technology transfer managers and the roles that they played in pushing forward the transfer of basic research results into industrial applications. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on this topic. He continues to be particularly interested in the roles of non-engineering and non-executive personnel (like professional technology transfer managers) who play an important but often invisible role in the process of technological innovation. Since receiving his doctorate in 1998, he has continued to do research and write, has taught both as a lecturer/adjunct in a campus environment and in distance education/online settings, and done contracting and consulting in the area of technology and information systems management. His current research interests include organizational structuration in socio-technical contexts, virtuality and social interaction, and the relationship between object-oriented design principles and the social construction of institutions. He is also very interested in mixing various quantitative/mathematical methods with ethnographic methods.


Ted Kahn

Ted KahnDr. Ted M. Kahn is the co-founder and CEO of DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. and the Chief Learning Officer for DesignWorlds for College <htttp://www.designworlds.com/college/>. Ted was honored as the first lifetime NMC Fellow of the NMC: New Media Consortium, has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, a GLEF Fellow and member of the Speakers Bureau of The George Lucas Educational Foundation <http://www.edutopia.org>, and is also an adjunct faculty member at Foothill College- Krause Center for Innovation <http://www.krauseinnovationcenter.org/kci/>.

During the 1990's, Ted was a Senior Research Scientist & Technology Strategist with the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL), where he was a co-founder of the US Dept. of Education-funded Silicon Valley Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project. Ted has been an employee, advisor/board member, consultant or grant recipient with several prominent Silicon Valley high tech companies and R&D organizations, as well as national/international agencies and public-private alliances, including: Lawrence Hall of Science, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Atari, Picodyne, Digital F/X, U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), Apple, Microsoft, the Getty Center, National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, the Children's Discover Museum of San Jose, USAID, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation and UNESCO & the United Nations Development Program. He has worked with teachers and students around the world helping them to use technology for global collaborative projects for over 35 years.

Ted is internationally known as a pioneer and innovator in action-research projects and award-winning commercial products and web communities involving technology and learning in schools, homes, workplaces and museums. He is also the founding director of the Bay Area Science Education Collaboratory. He holds a B.A. in computer science (with honors) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology, all from the University of California, Berkeley. For more information, visit Design Worlds for Learning.

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Reiji Sano

small placeholder imageA Lifetime Honorary Member of Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Reiji Sano is beginning his second year as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Center. Prior to joining SCU, Sano was the chairman of the Committee on Technology Industry and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (CTI/BIAC) and the chairman of The Preparation Committee for the "Japan-Russia Advanced Science Technology Exchange Forum." He was a former president of Matsushita Research Institute of Tokyo, Inc. and chief technology officer of Matsushita, in charge of managing fourteen overseas research laboratories, as well as many labs in Japan. In addition, he established the Panasonic Digital Concepts Center in Silicon Valley in Cupertino and was the founding chairman of the Energy Conservation and Homecare Network (ECHONET).

Reiji Sano has B.S. in physics and a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Tokyo.

 

 
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