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Biographies
Author Greg Kimberly
Graduate Researcher
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Greg Kimberly wrote this thesis while a graduate student in the Epistemology and Learning
Groupat the Media Lab. He is currently working on bringing social simulation
environments to the World-Wide-Web.
Advisor Mitchel Resnick
Assistant Professor
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Mitchel Resnick is an assistant professor at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Resnick graduated from Princeton with a degree in physics, then worked
as a science/technology journalist for five years, writing primarily
for Business Week magazine. Returning to graduate school, he received
a PhD in computer science from MIT, specializing in the uses of
computers in education. His current research involves the development
of new computational tools to help people (particularly children)
learn new things in new ways. Resnick is co-developer of LEGO/Logo, a
computer-controlled construction kit. He also developed StarLogo, the
first massively parallel programming language intended for nonexpert
programmers. He is author of Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams:
Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds, from MIT
Press.
Reader Mitchell Kapor
Adjunct Professor
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Mitchell Kapor is co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public interest organization working in the area of
telecommunications public policy. He is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3. He is
currently teaching courses at MIT's Media Lab.
Reader Edward A. Parson
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Edward A. Parson is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. His
research concerns include environmental policy and negotiations. Particular recent interests include the development of
international institutions to manage multilateral environmental problems; the analysis of multi-party negotiations; and the use
of formal modeling in international policy-making processes. Parson has developed a series of simulated environmental
negotiation exercises as policy research tools, adaptations of which are now widely used for executive training, and as
experiential learning devices in schools and colleges to teach negotiation, group decision-making, and conflict resolution. His
Doctorate is in Public Policy from Harvard, his prior degrees in Physics from the University of Toronto and in Management
Science from the University of British Columbia.
Parson has worked and consulted for the Office of Technology Assessment of the US Congress, the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, the United Nations, and the Privy Council Office of Canada. In other lives he spent four years as a
professional musician, and two organizing grassroots environmental groups.
Greg Kimberly/gregkimb@gak.com