Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

James Adams

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Name:	James Adams
Title:	Professor
Department	Economics
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/~adamsj

Bio James D. Adams is Professor of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. In addition, he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Rensselaer he was Professor of Economics at the University of Florida. He has also held visiting appointments at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago. He recently served on the Telecommunications R&D Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC and currently advises the Advanced Technology Program of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology on issues of data quality and policy evaluation. He received a BA in economics from the University of New Mexico in 1967 and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1976.

Dr. Adams has published numerous articles on the economics of technical change, with emphasis on the causes and consequences of industrial and academic research and development, as well as articles in the fields of labor and public economics. His current research focuses on the limits of the firm in research and development, the measurement of scientific influence, the identification of alternative channels of knowledge externalities in the economy, the structure and meaning of scientific teams and collaborations, the speed of diffusion of scientific research, and the determinants of research and teaching productivity in academia.

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Education Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 1976 MA, University of Chicago, 1969 BA (Magna Cum Laude), University of New Mexico, 1967

Scholarly Works:

“The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector,” (With J. Roger Clemmons), forthcoming.
“Learning, Internal Research, and Spillovers,” The Economics of Innovation and New Technology 15 (January 2006): 5-36.

Atsushi Akera

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Name:	Atsushi Akera
Title:	Associate Professor
Department	Science and Technology Studies
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu~akeraa/

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Scholarly Works:

Calculating a Natural World Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research Atsushi Akera

Recognitions:

Undergraduate Curriculum Innovation Grant. AY 2001-2002. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education
IEEE Postdoctoral Fellowship. AY 1999-2000. IEEE History Center Fellowship in Electrical History. [Converted to a research grant while a faculty at RPI.]

Curtis Bahn

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Name:	Curtis Bahn
Title:	Associate Professor
Department	Arts
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.arts.rpi.edu/crb/

Bio

Curtis Bahn is a composer and improviser who specializes in live interactive electronic performance. Currently he is Associate Professor of Computer Music Composition/ Performance, and Director of the Integrated Electronic Arts (iEAR) Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy New York. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from Princeton University. From 1986-1993 he was the Technical Director of the Center for Computer Music of the City University of New York working with composer Charles Dodge.

His music has been presented internationally at venues including Lincoln Center, India International Centre - Delhi, Sadler's Wells - London, Palais Garnier - Paris, Grand Theatre de la Ville - Luxembourg, as well as numerous festivals, conferences and clubs. Curtis was the composer for a major residency project entitled "Motione," in interactive dance and graphics with Choreographer Trisha Brown and Visual Artists Paul Kaiser, Marc Downey and Shelly Eshkar hosted by the ASU Arts Media and Engineering Program. He released a solo recording of live electronic performance on his extended string bass entitled "R!g," on the EMF label, a duo recording entitled "./swank" with Dan Trueman on the cycling 74 label, and a DVD with Pauline Oliveros and Tomie Hahn on the Deep Listening label.

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Education Ph.D. Princeton

Audrey Bennett

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Name:	Audrey Bennett
Title:	Associate Professor
Department	Language Literature and Communication
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/~bennett

Bio

Audrey Grace Bennett is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication. She teaches courses in design theory, research and practice and conducts research on collaborative and participatory design as methods for cross-cultural communication.

Bennett is editor of "Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design" published by Princeton Architectural Press that chronicles historical and contemporary efforts of designers to broaden the scope of the profession of graphic design to include user research.

Her current research--funded by Rensselaer, the Society for Technical Communication, and the National Science Foundation--includes the development of a theory of interactive aesthetics (IA) that democratizes the design process and places designers in virtual collaboration with lay audiences. IA facilitates the participation of remote participants in various stages of the design process through the use of new or existing communication technologies.

Her papers are published in the Journal of Design Research, Visible Language, Design Issues, The Journal of Graphic Design and various international design research conference proceedings. More information about her research can be found via “BaoHouse”—a virtual design studio that she directs.

View Audrey Grace Bennett's CV.

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Education Yale University School of Art, M.F.A. Graphic Design (terminal degree) Dartmouth College, B.A. Studio Art

Steve Breyman

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Name:	Steve Breyman
Title:	Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Department	Science and Technology Studies
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/~breyms/

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Education Ph.D. California-Santa Barbara

Selmer Bringsjord

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Name:	Selmer Bringsjord
Title:	Professor & Department Head
Department	Cognitive Science
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Center	Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS)
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/~brings/

Bio Selmer Bringsjord specializes in the logico-mathematical and philosophical foundations of articial intelli-
gence (AI) and cognitive science, and in collaboratively building AI systems on the basis of computational
logic. Though he spends considerable \engineering" time in pursuit of ever-smarter computing machines,
he claims that \armchair" reasoning time has enabled him to deduce that the human mind will forever be
superior to such machines.
Bringsjord received the bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and the PhD from Brown
University, where he studied under Roderick Chisholm. Bringsjord is not unhappy about the apparent
fact that he is through Chisholm an intellectual descendant of Leibniz, many of whose views to a high
degree align with his own, and whose interest in a rather wide range of intellectual matters matches his own
trans-disciplinary modus operandi.
Bringsjord has long been on faculty at America's oldest technological university: Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) in Troy; where he currently holds appointments in the Department of Cognitive Science, the
Department of Computer Science, and the Lally School of Management & Technology, and where as a Full
Professor he teaches AI, formal logic, human and machine reasoning, philosophy of AI, other topics relating
to formal logic, and the intellectual history of New York City and the Hudson Valley. Funding for his r&d
has come from the Luce Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, AT&T,
IBM, Apple, AFRL, ARDA/DTO/IARPA, ONR, DARPA, AFOSR, and other sponsors. Bringsjord has
consulted to and advised many companies in the general realm of intelligent systems, and continues to do
so.

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Education PhD, Philosophy. Brown University

Scholarly Works:

http://homepages.rpi.edu/~brings/select.html

Recognitions:

2004 Trustees (Annual) Outstanding Achievement Award (scholarly productivity)
The 1995 Hesburgh Award (member of winning Rensselaer team; for excellence in undergraduate

Nao Bustamante

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Name:	Nao Bustamante
Title:	Associate Professor
Department	Arts
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.naobustamante.com

Bio Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship and in 2007 named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow. Currently Bustamante holds the position of Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Education Combined BFA/MFA, New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, May 2001.

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2007 named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow
2001 Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship

Caren Canier

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Name:	Caren Canier
Title:	Professor and Acting Head
Department	Arts
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/~caniec/

Bio Caren Canier is a Professor of Painting, Drawing and 2D Design in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She has a BFA in Painting from Cornell University, where she studied with Gillian Pederson-Krag and an MFA in Painting from Boston University where she studied with Philip Guston and James Weeks. Canier has won numerous awards for her work including the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, the Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant,and two Artist's Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in many venues including solo exhibitions at the Robert Schoelkopf and Bowery Galleries in New York, Boston University's Sherman Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of New Hampshire, Durham and the Korn Gallery at the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts at Drew University. Her most recent solo show was at The Painting Center in New York.

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Education Caren Canier, M.F.A., Boston University, B.F.

Linnda Caporael

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Name:	Linnda Caporael
Title:	Professor
Department	Science and Technology Studies
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/~caporl/

Bio Linnda R. Caporael is a Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She researches biology from a cultural perspective and culture from a biological perspective. She has written on a variety of topics including cooperation, group coordination, social identity, and the attribution of human characteristics to animals and machines. Her most recent interests are in design research and theory, from both an evolutionary and Science and Technology Studies perspective. In addition to teaching courses in human evolution and culture and cognition, she also teaches in the Interdisciplinary Programs in Design and Innovation (PDI) and serves on its Steering Committee. Professor Caporael studied human ethology as a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Child Development, University of London. She also has been a Visiting Scientist in the departments of Invertebrate Biology and Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and a Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria. She is an associate editor for Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition, on the editorial board of Psychological Review, and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences (APS). Linnda Caporael was awarded a five-year Ford Foundation Fellowship for graduate study and received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Education Ph.D. California - Santa Barbara

Scholarly Works:

Caporael, L. R. (2008). Groups and the Evolution of Good Stories and Good Choices. In J. I. Krueger (Ed.), Rationality and Social Responsibility: Essays in Honor of Robyn Mason Dawes (pp. 275-319). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Caporael, L. R. (2007). Evolutionary theory for social and cultural psychology. In E. T. Higgins & A. Kruglanski (Eds.), Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (pp.3-18). New York: Guildford Press.

Nicholas L Cassimatis

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Name:	Nicholas L Cassimatis
Title:	Associate Professor
Department	Cognitive Science
School	Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Website:	http://www.cassimatis.com

Bio I received a bachelor's degree in mathematics form MIT and a master's degree in psychology from Stanford. I studied artificial intelligence in Marvin Minsky's group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where I received my Ph.D. I was then an NRC postdoctoral associate at the Naval Research Laboratory's AI Center for two years. I have been on the faculty of the Cognitive Science Department at Rensselaer since then.

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ONR

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Scholarly Works:

Cassimatis, N. L., & Bignoli, P. (in press). Testing Common Sense Reasoning Abilities. Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence
Kurup, U, Bignoli, P., Scally, J. R., & Cassimatis, N. L. (in press). An Architectural Framework for Complex Cognition. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research.