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Anne Balsamo (abalsamo)

www.designingculture.net/blog


Anne Balsamo's work focuses on the relationship between culture and technology. This focus informs her practice as a scholar, researcher, new media designer, and entrepreneur. She is currently a Full Professor of Interactive Media in the School of Cinematic Arts, and of Communications in the Annenberg School of Communications. Her most recent book Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work (Duke UP, 2011) examines the relationship between designing praxis, cultural reproduction and the technological imagination. In the Interactive Media Division she teaches graduate courses in the history and design of PUBLIC INTERACTIVES.








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    Douglas Carl Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers [...]

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    Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of “algorithm” and “computation” with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the [...]

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