Phoebe Sengers

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Phoebe Sengers is an American computer scientist and ethnographer, currently a professor at Cornell University with a joint appointment in the Department of Science & Technology Studies and the Department of Information Science. [1] She directs a research group on culturally embedded computing, and also holds affiliations with the Cornell Department of Computer Science, Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture, and Atkinson Center for Sustainability. [2] Her research concerns technology and society, human–computer interaction, and sustainable computing, particularly focusing on experiences in rural areas, among the working classes, and in the developing world.

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Education and career

Sengers studied computer science at Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1990 with a minor in German. [3] She completed a self-defined Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and cultural theory in 1998, at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Anti-Boxology: Agent Design in Cultural Context, was supervised by Joseph Bates. [3] [4]

After postdoctoral research as a Fulbright Scholar at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany, and at the [[German National Research Center for Information Technology]] [ de ] (now part of the FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik), she came to Cornell as an assistant professor in both the Department of Science & Technology Studies and the Department of Information Science in 2001. She was promoted to associate professor in 2008. In 2020 she reduced her appointment to half-time, and in 2022 she was promoted to full professor, still at half-time. [3] Sengers is engaged in a long-term ethnographic project to study sociological changes brought about by technology in the Change Islands, Newfoundland, an isolated and tradition-bound fishing community. [5]

Recognition

Sengers was elected to the CHI Academy in 2023. [2] She was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, for "contributions to critically-informed human-computer interaction and design". [6]

Personal life

Sengers is one of four children of Dutch-American physicists Anneke Levelt Sengers and Jan V. Sengers. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Phoebe Sengers", People: Faculty, Cornell Information Science, February 2, 2018, retrieved 2024-01-26
  2. 1 2 Sengers named to CHI Academy, Cornell Information Science, February 16, 2023, retrieved 2024-01-26
  3. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae (PDF), Cornell Information Science, September 2022, retrieved 2024-01-26
  4. ↑ Phoebe Sengers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "Phoebe Sengers". Intel Science & Technology Center for Social Computing. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  6. ↑ "2023 ACM Fellows Celebrated for Contributions to Computing That Underpin Our Daily Lives", Media center, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2024-01-26
  7. ↑ "Forward thinking" (PDF), Engineering @ Maryland, University of Maryland, p. 31, Fall 2003
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