The Center Staff and Scholars in the Media
Center Highlights:
San Francisco Chronicle, May 11, 2008
On Yahoo in the aftermath of Microsoft's abandoned takeover bid
"I think they would be crazy to get into bed with Google, because Google would eat them alive," Said Geoffrey Bowker, executive director of the Center for Science, Technology, and society at Santa Clara University.
Read the Chronicle article "Yahoo working to stand alone after Microsoft deal's demise"
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The Christian Science Monitor, January 11, 2008
"In many respects, these social entrepreneurs are pathfinders, they are like the research and development for bigger players that have otherwise ignored the bottom of the pyramid market," says James Koch, a professor at Santa Clara University in California.
Read Christian Science Monitor, article on one laptop per child, and hear
Ben Arnoldy discuss some of the projects he saw at Santa Clara University's GSBI in August 07.
Investor's Business Daily, December 24, 2007
Pearson has made progress by managing her nonprofit group like a high-tech startup firm, says Jim Koch, founder of the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley. He helps organize the awards program for the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation.
Read Investors Daily article on Freeplay Foundation (GSBI 2004).
ABC Channel 7, August 22, 2007
Santa Clara University has invited a group of innovators to Silicon Valley, but these aren't your typical entrepreneurs. Their ideas are all about making life better in developing countries.
View ABC's video on the 2007 GSBI
San Jose Mercury News, November 13, 2006
San Jose Mercury News published Jim Fruchterman's "Can Do" Op Ed regarding the spirit of the Nov 16 Silicon Valley Challenge Summit. As the CEO of Palo Alto-based Benetech, and a 2006 MacArthur fellow, Jim is a loyal friend of the Center and a GSBI Advisory Council Member. He was a speaker at the Summit.
Read his Op Ed "Build great companies, then help build a great world" which posted on Monday Nov. 13, 2006 
San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, 2006
A Web of oil intrigue: Rumored Iran plan has blogs breathless (David R. Baker)
Geoffrey Bowker (Executive Director of the Center) likens the online saga surrounding the Iran oil exchange, or bourse, to school day rumors on the playground where even the most speculative elements have been treated as fact.
The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2006
Consumer Technology; Changing History: For scholars, the Internet is providing new troves of resources almost daily; now if only it were all true (John Letzing)
Geoffrey Bowker [Executive Director of the Center] acknowledges the usefulness of the internet for historical research. However, he is concerned that by utilizing the “digital frontier” rather than using conventional resources (card catalogs, academic journals, original letters and documents) there is a high percentage of materials that are being pushed further into the periphery and are no longer being looked at.
John King [Center Advisory Board Member], disagrees with Bowker’s concern. He feels that modern internet search tools, including Google Book Search, will actually serve to broaden knowledge in that some materials will be moved back to the foreground.
The Christian Science Monitor, January 25, 2006
Google's Dilemma: Privacy vs. Police (G. Jeffrey MacDonald)
Google’s tough stand on not releasing information about Web searches to the U.S. Government. Dr. Bowker comments on the growing controversies surrounding the electronic intrusiveness of governments.
San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 2005
San Jose Tech Awards Pick Innovations with Potential for Good (Matthew Yi)
The Tech Awards, according to Dr. Bowker, seeks to recognize those who strive to help humanity with the most innovative use of technology, not those with the highest technology solution.
San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2005
Google to build campus at NASA Ames Research Center (Dan Levy)
Geoffrey Bowker comments on Google’s plans to build a new campus at the epicenter of the Silicon Valley, likening it to Xerox Parc in Palo Alto, where people can meet and share ideas.
"We haven't had, since Xerox Parc shut down, a place where people could meet and share ideas. Silicon Valley really needs a heart, and this is genuinely a central place."
The Christian Science Monitor, December 29, 2003
Around the globe, new ‘SiliconValleys’ emerge (Mark Sappenfield)
“We’re seeing a fundamental shift,” says Jim Koch, director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa ClaraUniversity. “Innovation is becoming a truly global phenomenon.”
Silicon ValleyBiz Ink, October 24, 2003
Innovators combine science with humanity(Radhika Kaushik)
The [Tech] awards were presented by Santa Clara-based Applied Materials, Inc. along with Santa ClaraUniversityand the American Council for the United Nations University.
“The Tech Awards are all about the creative applications of technology to address human issues. The most compelling reason for selection was the technology’s impact on humanity,” says James Koch,” director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa ClaraUniversity.
Silicon ValleyBiz Ink, October 3, 2003
Politics of offshoring(Steve Tanner)
Jim Koch, director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa ClaraUniversity, expects to see much more populist views put forth regarding offshoring, as well as H1-B and L1 visas, in the next presidential campaign. Koch just hopes politicians will avoid politicizing the issue too much.
“At a human level, there is tremendous pain and angst and real suffering that happens. We as a society have to be sensitive to that,” Koch says. “Still, everything I read points to the conclusion that it would be wrong-minded [to restrict offshoring]. We are in a truly global economy.”
Silicon ValleyBiz Ink, July, 10, 2003
Center examines role of technology on society(Dennis Taylor)
James Koch is a soft-spoken professor at Santa ClaraUniversity, and directs the university’s Center for Science, Technology, & Society, a multidisciplinary think-tank that in many ways has turned popular belief about Silicon Valleyon its ear.
What is the mission of the Center for Science, Technology & Society?
To illuminate the interplay among science, technology and culture, and promote the common good of an increasingly technological society. We do that through research, dissemination of research and active dialogue with a cross section of society.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 2003
$1 billion dot-bomb payout by firms (Carolyn Said)
“This is bittersweet,” said James Koch, director of Santa ClaraUniversity’s Center for Science, Technology and Society. The amount of money that we’re talking about here (that was wiped-out in the stock-market downturn) is in the trillions. A billion-dollar settlement seems like a big number, but for the average investor this is really only a symbolic victory. In reality, Milberg Weiss (Bershad Hynes & Lerach) will get far, far too much of a disproportionate share of the return.”
Business Wire, March 14, 2003
Center lines up Prominent Thinkers for International Conference on Information Technology and Globalization
The Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa ClaraUniversitytoday released the program for its international conference, “NETWORKED WORLD: Information Technology and Globalization.” The day-long event will bring together leading thinkers from around the globe to discuss challenges of the world’s increasing interconnection through technology and the resulting impact on globalization.
The Center for Science, Technology, and Society fosters interdisciplinary inquiry into the societal implications of technological change. The Center links the Silicon Valleyto Santa ClaraUniversityand fosters rich dialogue among thought leaders on how the potential benefits of technology can serve all of humanity. This goal is highlighted through the Center’s partnership with the TechMuseumand the American Council for the United Nations University for the annual Technology Benefiting Humanity Awards.
CAST Press Release, September 30, 2002
Silicon ValleySelects CAST of Wakefieldas Finalist for International Tech Museum Award for improving tquality of life around the world
Judging for the Tech Museum Awards is independently conducted by Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology and Society, a global network of academic and industry experts dedicated to understanding and influencing how science and technology impact society. They assembled five panels of judges from around the world, recruited from research institutions, industry and the public sector, who judged the nominations on five set criteria.
Press Releases:
August 17, 2008
More Than a Dozen Social Entrepreneurs From Africa, South America, and India Will Learn to Apply Silicon Valley Business Principles to Their Emerging Businesses...
Read the article by The Register
July 24, 2008
Sixth annual Santa Clara University Global Business Incubator Program launches Aug. 17
Read the article by SCU
October 3, 2007
eBay may soon offer online banking. It would seem. This afternoon, while fielding questions about PayPal at Santa Clara University conference obsessed with "trust online," chief information security officer Dave Cullinane seemed to indicate eBay is interested in extending the popular online payment system to its logical …
Read the article by The Register
October 2, 2007
Richard Clarke, the man who served President Bush as a special adviser for cyber security, has a five-point plan for saving the internet. Speaking at a Santa Clara University conference dedicated to "trust online," Clarke called the net "a place of chaos in many ways, a place of crime in many ways," but laid out several means …
Read the article by The Register
September 2, 2007
On a recent day at Santa Clara University, Weissman was giving it away, providing a two-hour condensed version of his program to participants in the university's Global Social Benefit Incubator. The SCU program, funded by the Noyce Foundation, is designed to help developers of non-profit programs and businesses in poor nations learn Silicon Valley lessons in how to grow and sustain their enterprises.
Read the article by the San Jose Mercury News
August 28, 2007
The two men, previously worlds apart, were brought together at Santa Clara University's two-week-long Global Social Benefit Incubator program, which ends Thursday. The program gathers social entrepreneurs from all over the world who are trying to combine their contribution to a common good with a coherent business model.
Read the article by the San Francisco Chronicle
August 8, 2007
"The entrepreneurial spirit, rapid development and diffusion of technology that characterizes the best of Silicon Valley are propagated through this program,” said Jim Koch, executive director of GSBI. “The incubator brings together grassroots innovators and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with University faculty to support the scaling up of technology applications that serve the common good all over the world.”
Read the press release by Hispanic Business
September 25, 2006
On Oct.7, Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society, and the Broadband Institute of California will host a public hearing on municipal broadband and the underserved from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Arts and Sciences Building. The hearing is part of a project to educate representatives from the region’s underserved groups so that they can make well-informed policy recommendations about commissioning their own broadband networks.
http://www.scu.edu/news/releases/release.cfm?month=0906&story=Broadband_092506
September 20, 2006
The Tech Museum of Innovation, one of the country’s leading science and technology museums, named 25 innovators from around the world to be honored by this year’s Tech Museum Awards Program, presented by Applied Materials, Inc., for applying technology to benefit humanity.
http://www.techawards.org/pressroom/archive.php?id=135
April 5, 2006
Sand Hill Group Announces First Annual Awards for Software Industry Good Samaritans, Social Entrepreneurs and Luminary; Winners Recognized At Software 2006 Gala Benefit; Awards Celebrate Philanthropy in the Software Industry Ecosystem
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060405005709&newsLang=en
April 5, 2006
SCU's Center for Science, Technology, and Society and the Leavey School of Business Receive Good Samaritan Award
http://www.scu.edu/news/releases/release.cfm?month=0406&story=SHG_GoodSamaritan
November 22, 2005
Video Gaming, Playing with Ethics: Open forum featuring game creators, opponents of violent video games, gamers
http://www.scu.edu/news/releases/release.cfm?month=1105&story=videogame
September 21, 2005
Twenty Five Global Innovators Named as 2005 Tech Museum Awards Laureates
http://techawards.thetech.org/pressroom/archive.php?id=116
March 14, 2005
SCU to host conference on knowledge sharing on the Net
http://www.scu.edu/news/releases/release.cfm?month=0305&story=digital
September 8, 2004
Twenty Five Global Innovators Honored as Tech Museum Awards Laureates
http://techawards.thetech.org/pressroom/archive.php?id=87
June 17, 2004
Tech Museum Awards Applicants Reach Record Number
http://techawards.thetech.org/pressroom/archive.php?id=77
January 22, 2004
Tech Museum Awards 2004 Call for Nominations
http://techawards.thetech.org/pressroom/archive.php?id=58
September 5, 2003
25 Global innovators honored as Tech Museum Awards finalists
SCU's CSTS coordinated selection from 500 worldwide nominations
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0903&story=CSTS
March 13, 2003
University to host international conference on information technology and globalization
Speakers to address UN technology challenge
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0303&story=technology
November 3, 2002
Five winners named for 2002 Tech Awards: Technology Benefiting Humanity
SCU CSTS assembled panels of judges for international awards
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=1102&story=TechAwards
September 25, 2002
SCU faculty chaired judging panels gathered by the Center for Science, Technology, and Society for international Tech Museum Awards
Center director Jim Koch announces 25 finalists at press conference
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0902&story=Techjudges
September 25, 2002
Global innovators honored as Tech Museum Awards finalists
SCU Center for Science, Technology, and Society coordinated selection of 25 finalists from 460 worldwide nominations www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0902&story=TechAwardsA
November 2, 2001
SCU, Tech Museum of Innovation, and Applied Materials honor humanitarian side of technology
$250,000 awarded to five winners of first annual Tech Museum of Innovation Awards
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=1101&story=awards
September 5, 2001
Center for Science, Technology, and Society lends expertise to the Tech Museum of Innovation Awards
Global finalists to be honored for humanitarian uses of technology on November 1, 2001
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0901&story=sts-tech
April 26, 2001
Silicon Valley business leaders take "time out" to examine technology's impact on society
Panelists say man, not machines, holds key to the future
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0401&story=timeout
April 17, 2001
National technology conference brings eminent leaders to SCU
Pulitzer Prize winner, Haynes Johnson, to lead talks on future of the Internet
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0401&story=sts
March 8, 2001
SCU, Applied Materials, and United Nations join The Tech Museum in new global awards program
Awards honor innovators who use technology to improve humanity
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0301&story=awards
February 6, 2001
SCU launches Center for Science, Technology, and Society with founding partner Applied Materials
Academic and industry experts create a global network for research, dialogue, and advocacy
www.scu.edu/news/releases.cfm?month=0201&story=sts
Center News:
Santa Clara University's FYI, Nov 3, 2008
Center for Science, Technology, and Society judges entries for annual Tech Awards from across the globe
The San Francisco Chronicle, Sep 7, 2008
Google still innovating on 10th anniversary
The Christian Science Monitor, Aug 27, 2008
Doing Well By Doing Good? It's Not Easy.
San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2007
Google surpasses Microsoft as world's most visited site
Christian Science Monitor, January 29, 2007
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0129/p01s02-usec.html
Chronicle of Higher Education, December 15, 2006
Focusing on Education 'as a Way of Being'
San Francisco Chronicle, November 16, 2006
Tech Museum Awards by 2 in Bay Area
San Jose Mercury News, October 8, 2006
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15709514.htm
San Jose Mercury News, September 27, 2006
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/15618850.htm
Saratoga News, August 23, 2006
http://www.svcn.com/archives/saratoganews/20060823/news2.shtml
Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2006
http://cms.scu.edu/sts/about/Feb13WSJ.cfm
Gamasutra.com, November 22, 2005
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=7273
CNN.com, October 18, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/10/17/wireless.overview/index.html
San Jose Mercury News, April 25, 2005
On the Web, everything except sharing
San Jose Mercury News, April 22, 2005
Developing world needs knowledge more than hardware, speakers say
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 29, 2004
Teaching Business Skills to People With a Social Mission
Programs help nonprofit groups steer clear of scandal and mismanagement
San Jose Mercury News, July 31, 2004
Atten-Hut! Social Entrepreneurs Business Boot Camp Teaches Non-Profits to Make Money
San Jose Mercury News, February 6, 2001
Opinion Editorial by James C. Morgan
A Compass for Technology - New Science Center at SCU will provide a network for challenging assumptions
San Jose Mercury News, February 7, 2001
SCU Raises Millions for its Tech Center - New Magazine, Web Site Unveiled
San Jose Mercury News, February 7, 2001
SCU Announces Funds for Center to Study Society and Technology
San Francisco Chronicle, April 27, 2001
Group Sees Net's Future as Service to Society
San Jose Mercury News, November 2, 2001
Tech Innovators Honored for Service
Wired Magazine, November 2, 2001
For the Benefit of Humanity
New York Times, November 8, 2001
Rewarding Technology that Benefits Humanity
