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Speaker's Biography:
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT; Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people, technology and identity. The Initiative looks at a range of technologies including robotics, psychopharmacology, video games, and simulation software and their effects on human development. A licensed clinical psychologist with a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology, Turkle is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. She leads an NSF-funded research project, “Relational Artifacts,” on the psychological impact of computational objects as they become increasingly sociable and she is principal investigator on an NSF-funded study of “Information Technology and Professional Identity: A Comparative Study of the Effects of Virtuality.” Turkle delivered the annual Freud Lecture in Vienna, "Whither Psychoanalysis in Digital Culture?" which explores the question of where our emotional vulnerabilities to these objects are taking us. Turkle is currently completing a book that she considers the third of her “computational trilogy” on people's increasingly intimate relationships with machines that have been explicitly designed to be human companions. Turkle earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University.
Panel:
Dinner panel - The Long View: Imagining the Future »
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