Speakers


MK Michael Eitan, Minister of Improvement of Government Services (IL)
Member of Knesset (MK) Michael Eitan is Minister of Improvement of Government Services. For the past 15 years Eitan has been the most active and prominent Knesset (Parliament) Member and Government Minister initiating, promoting, developing and overseeing Information Technology developments in Israeli society, industry, government and governance. Eitan studied law at Tel Aviv University. Active in public affairs, he served as chairman of the Herut Young Guard and as a member of the Herut Central Committee, among other early political activities (Herut would later become part of the Likud Party). Eitan has been an MK since 1984, serving as Minister of Science from July 1997 until July 1998, and until July 1999, as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office. In March 2009 he was appointed Minister of Improvement of Government Services. He has also been a member of the Knesset's Finance Committee, Economic Affairs Committee, Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee, State Control Committee, Committee on Education and Culture, House Committee, and Science and Technology Committee, and has chaired the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. In 1992-96, he headed the Opposition Bloc in the Knesset and was substitute leader of the Likud Knesset faction. Eitan's activities and initiatives in the field of digital information technology have been extensive. For many years Eitan has promoted fuller integration of Internet technology in the public sector. He has been active in instituting reform in the government’s R&D policy and made a significant contribution to the Israel’s involvement in the EU's R&D programs. Some of his other contributions in this area include initiating and chairing, in 1996, the first Knesset Committee assessing Israel's position in relation to the information revolution brought upon by the Internet. As Chairman of the Knesset Subcommittee on Communication and Information (1996-97), Eitan strongly promoted the use of email by Government Ministries and the Knesset, initiated the Knesset's Internet site, and led to the way in implementing new laws promoting the use of the Internet and email. As Minister of Science and Deputy Prime Minister, he initiated a successful campaign to lower the Internet providers' rates. In 2000-2001, Eitan initiated Project Lehava, a government program for "narrowing the digital gap" by creating 14 (hitherto) computing and Internet education and use centers in economically underprivileged areas in Israel. In the past year, as Chair of the Knesset Subcommittee on the Internet and Information Technology he has championed freedom of speech on the Internet, at times against MKs wishing to limit it. At the same time, the subcommittee examined complex and often divisive issues regarding Internet use, such as: privacy, security, intellectual property rights, and concerns regarding Internet commerce.


Langdon Winner (US)
Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as co-director of the newly founded Center for Cultural Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. He is a leading and highly influential scholar in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Winner is a widely recognized public intellectual with strong social commitments. He has taught, written and lectured extensively about digital technologies and the Internet. Langdon Winner describes his research as "focusing on intersections of politics and technology along several dimensions. I am concerned to apply the classic questions of Western political thought – order, justice, freedom, power, authority, etc. – within settings in which technological practices, devices and systems are under development or already in use. This means that I view technological structures and processes as institutions significant within political culture as a whole, examining the contributions and/or problems they present to our experience of public life". "An important aspect of this work involves research on choices in technological design that have significance for power relationships. I am finishing a book, Political Artifacts: Design and the Quality of Public Life, on issues of this kind, comparing perspectives on design from architecture, engineering, information systems, and the tradition of political constitutionalism. By the same token, I am interested in ways of democratizing practices of design and technology shaping. How can ordinary citizens be involved in helping decide the shape of the technologies that affect their lives? "I am especially interested to explore possibilities for an alternative, high technology civilization, especially applications that succeed in substituting digital bits for the wasteful use of material and energy resources that have characterized industrial civilization for the past two centuries. Many of the practices resource exhausting approaches we have inherited from the past are no longer good practice and should no longer be ones we should feel compelled to maintain. Part of my research at present involves identifying patterns of new technology that are compatible with the quest for a just, democracy and ecologically sustainable society. "Another book-length study I'm preparing to write concerns 19th and 20th century intellectual traditions of technology criticism and their contributions to social and political thought. While sometimes dismissed as "anti-progress" or "anti-technology" these traditions are better thought of as ways to evaluate and redirect paths of sociotechnical change in more promising directions. Of course, much of my own writing and public presence involves contemporary efforts of this exactly kind. Some of my research is action-oriented, taking a stand on issues that involve important technology-related choices, forming links with others engaged in similar projects, learning from the results that ensue. "I am also in the early stages of research on a book about humans and post-humans, looking at ethical and moral issues involved in proposals to transcend human being as currently discussed among scientists, engineers and social theorists".


Pinchas Buchris, Brigadier General (Ret.) (IS)
Mr.Buchris, has had a highly distinguished military career, and currently is a senior business executive. Mr. Buchris has a BSC in computer science from the Technion, an MBA from Derby University (Israel extension), and participated in Harvard University's Advanced Management Program. His renowned career in the IDF includes serving as officer and second-in-command of an elite commando unit. He then rapidly rose up the ranks of military intelligence, serving first as an officer/engineer in one of its technology units; then heading the Special Technology Unit, next the Special Operations Integration Department; and finally commanding the largest technology intelligence gathering unit. After retiring from the IDF, Mr. Buchris served as managing director of Tamares, (a private investment group), became partner at Apax Partners (a venture capital firm), and served as a consultant for several high-tech companies and security organizations, bringing his vast technological experience to bear along with in- depth knowledge of the hi-tech community. In 2007-2010, Mr. Buchris served as Managing Director of Israel's Ministry of Defense. In 1993, Mr. Buchris was awarded the Israel Security award, the most prestigious national award given in Israel.


Benny Levin (IL)
Benny Levin is acting Chairman of the dbMotion Board of Directors. Before joining dbMotion Mr. Levin co-founded NICE Systems, a worldwide leader in multimedia digital recording solutions for business interaction management. Mr. Levin served as NICE's President and Director from its inception and as Chairman and CEO from 1998 to 2001. Under Mr. Levin's leadership the company achieved impressive growth and raised significant funds, both on NASDAQ and the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange. Prior to founding NICE, Mr. Levin served in IDF intelligence and retired as lieutenant colonel. In 1978, he was awarded the Chief of Intelligence Award for Creative Thinking. Mr. Levin is also Vice-Chairman of the Israel Venture Network (IVN) and Chairman of IVN’s Economic Development program called, IVN's Economic Reconstruction Initiative (IERI). Investing in entrepreneurship, IVN strives to promote sustainable social change in Israel, by strengthening education and the economy in the geographic and social periphery, through scalable models. IVN is a network of business executives, corporations and philanthropists in Israel and the United States, bridging gaps in Israel through hands-on venture philanthropy. He holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.


Benny Schnaider (IL)
Benny Schnaider joined Red Hat as Vice President of Business Development through the acquisition, in 2008, of the successful Israeli software company, Qumranet. Benny was Qumranet's CEO and a Co-Founder. Benny was CEO and Co-Founder of PentaCom Ltd. a provider of networking products implementing Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) for IP based metropolitan networks which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Benny also co-founded and served on the Board of Directors for P-Cube, a developer of IP service control platforms, which was acquired by Cisco in 2004. Benny holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, and a BS in Computer Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.


Ms. Smadar Nehab (IL)
Ms. Smadar Nehab is Executive Director of Tsofen - High Technology Centers. Ms. Nehab is a technology entrepreneur and has held key positions in leading technology companies, including: EFI, Verisity, and Mercury/Conduct. She has extensive experience in the initiation, creation and management of technological organizations, and in organizational and technological consulting. She earned a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science from the Hebrew University and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute. Tsofen is a non-profit organization dedicated to integrating the Arab community into the hi-tech industry and other advanced industries; to substantially increasing the number of Arab software engineers in the Israeli hi-tech industry; as well as to offering guidance and assistance to various authorities operating within the Arab community in leveraging regional development towards advanced technology industries.


Dr. Eyal Weizman (UK)
Eyal Weizman is the director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Weizman studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. He was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His work includes buildings and stage sets in Israel/Palestine and Europe. Weizman works with a variety of NGOs and human rights groups in Israel/Palestine. His projects are based on his human rights research in the Israeli Occupied Territories. Together with architect Rafi Segal he curated an exhibition and catalogue, "A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture". Yet the Israeli Association of Architects who had commissioned the project in the first place, banned it. However, it was later shown in the exhibition "Terriories" in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Weizman has taught, lectured and organized conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (Verso, 2010), A Civilian Occupation (Verso, 2003), the series Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms, and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. Weizman is a regular contributor to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet magazine (New York). Weizman received the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007.


Sheizaf Rafaeli (IL)
Professor Sheizaf Rafaeli is currently Director of the Center for the Study of the Information Society, Head of the Graduate School of Management, and leads the "Games for Executives Project", all at Haifa University. Previously, he served as head of the Information Systems section at the Hebrew University's Graduate School of Business. Rafaeli's main area of interest is computers as media; current interests include online games, simulation and serious games. He was one the first academics in Israel to research, analyze and write about the Internet; over the past twenty-five years he has taught courses on computers as media, and the social implications of new communication technologies, as well as numerous information systems courses. Rafaeli has been actively involved in creating Internet-based activities, such as online higher education, journalism, and political, governmental, social and economic organizations and projects. Rafaeli is proud of initiating and setting up the online service Civilian Consultation Board. His articles on varied social practices, behavior, and activities on the Internet and in digital communication systems have been published extensively in leading international professional journals. He was one of the founders of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), and serves on its board of editors. Rafaeli also writes a weekly column for Globes, and did so previously for Calcalist, Israel's two leading financial newspapers, as well as for YNet, a leading Israeli online news portal. He has authored a number of books, including Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet (co-edited with Fay Sudweeks and Margaret McLaughlin; MIT, 1998). He has served in visiting research and teaching positions at Ohio State University, Michigan State University, IBM, Stanford University, Technion, Israeli College of Management, and the University of Michigan.


Eran Sachs (IL)
Eran Sachs is a composer, improviser, sound-artist and curator. Sachs is best known for his No-Input-Mixer, with which he has been performing since 1998. In its most basic form, the No-Input-Mixer consists of a mixer with the outputs plugged in to the inputs that create feedback loops. Using the EQ on a mixer channel allows for tonal variations and further variety comes from the addition of effects units into the feedback loops. Sachs has had numerous solo performances, collaborations and is a member of several experimental sound bands, and has performed widely, in various combinations in Europe, the U.S. and Israel. His work with sculptor Eytan Ronel, "Studio", was awarded the Excellence Award by the NY International Fringe Festival. He is a participant in John Zorn's improvising ensemble in Israel, "Cobra". He has presented his works, lectures and compositions at ITP-NYU “Guest Speaker” program at New York University, and in festivals, including Sonorities (Belfast), Transmediale/CTM (Berlin), Festival for Jewish Culture (Krakow), Theaterformen (Hannover), Musica Genera (Sczeczin) and Skanu Mesz (Riga) as well as spaces and platforms such as Sonic Square, RecycleArt (Brusseles), Podewil, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, O Tannenbaum, and M-12 (all in Berlin), Melkweg (Amsterdam), Death By Audio (NY), Kulturbunker (Cologne). He is member of the Doom-Dub-Noise outfits: Doom Duo Cadaver Eyes, Lietterschpich Diet, and Lietterschpich, (whose album “I Cum Blood in the Think Tank” was recently described as “Noise album of the Year” by Aquarius Records in SF). His music has been released on the prestigious Mille Plateaux, and Sub-Rosa labels, and, on various labels in Israel. As a sound-artist Sachs' works tends to fuse the sonic with the political, as in, for example, Yannun Yannun, which portrays the harassment of Palestinian villagers by fanatic right-wing settlers. He has collaborated extensively with sound artist Sebastian Meissner (Klimek, Random INC.), with whom he has recently released “Into The Void” (on Sub Rosa), a reflection on the old abandoned Jewish quarter Kazimierz in the city of Krakow.


OSP (Open Source Publishing)
OSP is an interdisciplinary international collective based in Brussels that uses only Free, Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS). Since 2006, OSP have experimented with design, illustration, cartography and typography using a wide range of F/LOSS tools. OSP are serious about testing the possibilities and limitations of open source software in a professional design environment. They modify and expand their tools, while engaging with the communities that develop them, changing both their practice and the designs they create. OSP recently received the Plantin Moretus Prize 2009 for best-designed nonfiction book, and the Fernand Baudin Prize for best-designed book in Brussels and Wallonia. 
Femke Snelting (NL) is an artist and designer, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software. Together with Renée Turner and Riek Sijbring she is part of De Geuzen (a foundation for multi-visual research). Femke is member of the Brussels-based Association for Art and Media, and participates in Samedies, Femmes et Logiciels Libres. 
Pierre Huyghebaert (BE) explores practices in graphic design. Since founding a studio in Beirut in the early nineties, he now heads the design studio Speculoos in Brussels. Interested in using free software to relearn, teach and collaborate, his work includes cartography, type design, web interfaces, schematic illustration, and book design. With the temporary artists' alliance Potential Estate he articulates residential spaces and narratives along borders, and also develops collaborative subjective mapping with Towards.


Femke Snelting (NL)
is an artist and designer, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software. Together with Renée Turner and Riek Sijbring she is part of De Geuzen (a foundation for multi-visual research). Femke is member of the Brussels-based Association for Art and Media, and participates in Samedies, Femmes et Logiciels Libres.



Pierre Huyghebaert (BE)
explores practices in graphic design. Since founding a studio in Beirut in the early nineties, he now heads the design studio Speculoos in Brussels. Interested in using free software to relearn, teach and collaborate, his work includes cartography, type design, web interfaces, schematic illustration, and book design. With the temporary artists' alliance Potential Estate he articulates residential spaces and narratives along borders, and also develops collaborative subjective mapping with Towards.


Ted (Edward) Byfield (US)
Ted Byfield is an associate at the Communication Design and Technology Department of Parsons the New School for Design, New School University, NYC. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Ted Byfield's research interests include cultural studies, information design, interface design, spatial design studies, and transdisciplinary design. He worked for over a decade as a freelance book editor, with an emphasis on cultural, intellectual, and technical history for numerous academic and public interest publishers including the Dia Center for the Arts, the New Press, and Zone Books. His collaborative artwork (1989-1994) was exhibited across the U.S. and Europe. For over a decade, he has served as co-moderator of the Nettime mailing list and edited or co-edited two of its proceedings (README! Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1999) and NKPVI (Venice/Ljubljana: MGLC, 2001). Byfield has co-organized several conferences, among them Tulipomania: A Critique of the New Economy (Amsterdam, 2000), blur_02 (New York, 2002), and the Next 5 Minutes 4 (Amsterdam, 2003). He has written extensively about the politics of Internet governance, and has served as a co-editor of ICANN Watch. His writings on a variety of subjects, from space photography to intellectual property, have appeared in publications as diverse as the Cook Report, First Monday, Frieze, Le Monde Diplomatique, Movement Research, Mute, and Stanford Humanities Review. He has consulted for the BBC, The Kitchen, KPN, Location One, the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the "Waag" Society for Old and New Media, among others. Ted Byfield has received a number of awards and grants, including the 1997 Rotterdam Design Prize, the 2002 Design Trust for Public Space Fellowship in Journalism, and a 2003 grant from the Open Society Institute to conduct social research in Sri Lanka's post-conflict environments. He was also a member of the 2003-2004 Social Science Research Council's "Information Technology and International Cooperation" workgroup.


Dr. Matthew Fuller (UK)
Matthew Fuller is David Gee Reader in Digital Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Previously he was Reader in Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam. He is one of the founders and leading theorists of software studies, a new crossdisciplinary field that focuses on the many and various aspects of computer software. He has written and edited a number of books, including Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software (Autonomedia, 2003); Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (MIT Press, 2005); and editor of Software Studies, A Lexicon (MIT Press, 2007). Together with Lev Manovich and Noah Wardrip-Fruin he edited the Software Studies book series at MIT Press. As an artist and theorist he created, among other projects, The Web Stalker, one of the first alternative browsers; Natural Selection, a search engine sensitive to racist themes; and Text-FM, an uncensored SMS reader made with a voice synthesizer linked to a radio station.


Ayelet Karmon (IL)
Ayelet Karmon is an architect, lecturer and faculty member of the Department of Interior – Building and Environment Design at Shenkar. Her academic role in the department includes the coordination of the design studio studies, in addition to being a studio instructor in the final-year design studio. Ms. Karmon is the initiator of a number of collaborations between her department and the Textile Design Laboratory and Plastics Center at Shenkar, as well as industrial collaborations outside of academia in areas such as material exploration, fabrication processes and technological innovation in design. These collaborations led to the initiation of the Architectural Knitted Workshop Series, workshops that invited participants to explore the potential of three-dimensional knitted surfaces as models for thinking about the architectural environment. Ms. Karmon has a B.Arch with Honors from the Technion, and an M.Arch from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Lately, her academic research focuses on the implications of physical and imbedded computing on the design process and interaction with the built environment. She is a partner in Strata Architects, an architectural practice situated in Tel-Aviv.


Mushon Zer-Aviv (USA/IL)
Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY and Tel Aviv. His work explores media in public space and the public space in media. In his creative research he focuses on the perception of territory and borders and the way they are shaped through politics, culture, networks and the Internet. He is co-founder of the Shual.com design studio; ShiftSpace.org – an open-source layer above any website; YouAreNotHere.org – a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel – a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Collaborative-Futures.org jointly authored book; and the Tel Aviv node of the Up Grade international network. Mushon is an honorary resident at Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York. He teaches new media research at NYU, and open source design at Parsons the New School of Design.


Florian Schneider (DE)
Florian Schneider is a writer, filmmaker and net activist. He focuses on how new communication and migration regimes are being attacked and undermined by critics of borders and networks. Over the past ten years he has been involved in a wide range of projects that deal with the implications of postmodern border regimes on both the theoretical and practical level. He is one of the initiators of the campaign Kein Mensch Ist Illegal (nobody is illegal) at Documenta X in 1997 and subsequent projects such as the Noborder Network. As a filmmaker he has directed award-winning documentaries as well as two theme evenings for the Arte TV channel on the topics of migration and activism. He initiated online projects such as the p2p-syndication network V2V, the Europe-wide Internet platform D-A-S-H, and the online-platform kein.org. He developed and co-organized events such as Makeworld (Munich 2001), Neuro--Networking Europe (Munich 2004), and Borderline Academy (Tarifa, 2005). Most recently he curated the multimedia performance project Dictionary of War and together with Irit Rogoff, Summit – Non-Aligned Initiatives in Education Culture. Currently he is working on Imaginary Property, a series of texts, films and video installations researching the question, "What does it mean to own an image?" He has written for various German newspapers and magazines, contributed to several books and published widely at the interfaces between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology. He has lectured worldwide. Since 2006 he teaches art theory at the art academy KIT of NTNU Trondheim (Norway), and is an advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.


Dr. Roberto Theron (ES)
Roberto Therón received his doctoral degree in computer science at Univerisidad de Salamanca, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding complex data. He also holds a degree in audiovisual communication and another one in the humanities. Theron is currently manager of the Visual Analytics and Information Visualization Research Group (VisUsal), devoted to the development of advanced tools that help users understand complex datasets in a variety of fields. Theron has been involved with the Medialab-Prado activities for the past three years, during which he has conducted a crossdisciplinary workshop. He co-produced the 9th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, 2009, that focused on the way information technologies are introduced and delivered to society, and how art is evolving and taking advantage of technological artifacts in its quest of new artistic forms. He has lectured and written extensively about computer graphic visualization, including numerous invited lectures, many published papers and chapters in edited books. He was one of the co-editors of Smart Graphics, 9th International Symposium, SG 2009 Proceedings (Springer, 2009). He is also a recipient of grants from the European Science Foundation. For the past decade, Theron has been involved in the development of several publicly available software tools that are widely used by the international scientific community, particularly in the fields of bioinformatics and paleoclimatology.


Metahaven (NL/BE)
Metahaven is a design collective and think tank based in Amsterdam and Brussels, founded by Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk. Its work focuses on design, visual identity and innovative political possibilities. Through design research, Metahaven’s aim is to rethink political potentialities in design, and it seeks to generate innovative visual-theoretical discourses around contemporary social and political controversies. From research projects such as the Sealand Identity Project (2004), Museum of Conflict (2006), and "Quaero" (2007), the group has moved into installations and critical design projects such as Affiche Frontière (CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, 2008) and Stadtstaat (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Casco Utrecht). Its recent book, Uncorporate Identity (Lars Müller, 2010), matches design with inquiries on globalization and network society. Metahaven has exhibited its work at group exhibitions, including: "Forms of Inquiry" (Architectural Association, London, 2007, cat.) and "On Purpose – Design Concepts" (Arnolfini, Bristol, 2008). Metahaven has received commissions for projects from the Van Abbemuseum, Valiz Publishers, e-flux Journal, Premsela Foundation and Bureau Europa, among others. Metahaven lectures regularly, and its partners teach at Yale University, the Design Academy, Eindhoven, and the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.


Tsila Hassine (IL)
Tsila Hassine conceived and co-produced this conference. She is a net artist, media designer and web programmer. Hassine currently teaches various interactive media and programming seminars at Shenkar College. She earned a B.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, and a B.A. in Computer Science, both from Tel Aviv University. She studied at the department of new media at Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich, and later at the Piet Zwart Post Graduate Institute, Rotterdam, where she received an M.A. in New Media Design. Under the alias "Missdata" she has exhibited and lectured in Europe, the U.S. and Israel.Hassine has received grants and fellowships: from the Digitalartlab, Holon, the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and in collaboration with Metahaven Design Collective, the AiR residency (ISEA 2008), in Singapore.


Ziv Neeman (IL)
Ziv Neeman co-produced this conference with Tsila Hassine. Neeman is an intellectual, artist, writer and peace activist. He lectures at Shenkar on theory, cultural studies, media and new media. He is on the board of editors of Ma'arav, Israel's leading online art magazine. Neeman studied philosophy at the University of Haifa; earned a B.F.A from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design; an M.A. in communication studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and an MA and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, NY. His Ph.D. dissertation, "'Building Profit-Power into this Electronic Brain: The Early Computer, Programming, and Literature in Cold War Culture", analyzed conceptions and representations of the early computer in political-economic discourses, the military, early business computerization, cybernetic theory, cognitive psychology, popular culture and fiction in American culture, circa, 1945-1960. He is currently working on turning the dissertation into a book. Neeman was selected to the prestigious Michigan Society of Fellows postdoctoral program. Other distinguished awards and fellowships he received include the Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, and the Louis Cornell Summer Research Fellowship. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan; he also taught at Columbia College, Fordham University (NY), and Tel-Aviv University. A chapter exploring William S. Burroughs' early cut-up trilogy (1961-64), where a notion of programming is articulated for the first time in literature other than SF, will appear shortly in Mainframe Experimentalism (eds. Higgins and Kahn, UC Berkeley Press), an anthology about early artistic engagements with computers.