John D. Berry is an editor and typographer, honorary president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) and the former editor and publisher of U&lc (Upper & lower case). He has written and edited several books, including Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode and Contemporary Newspaper Design: Shaping the News in the Digital Age. He has been a program manager on the Fonts team at Microsoft, where he established improved typographic standards for Windows and other Microsoft products. He is Director of the Scripta Typographic Institute. Joey is Editor and Program Manager at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination. He also coordinates Future Tense, ASU’s collaboration with Slate magazine and the New America Foundation on emerging technologies, policy and society. Joey earned both his master’s degree in Gender Studies and his bachelor’s degree in Film and Media Studies from Arizona State University. Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. Ed’s research and teaching explore digital narratives, contemporary culture and the intersection of the humanities, arts and sciences. He completed his PhD in English and American literature at Stanford University in 2011. Jim Giles is a journalist who writes about the interface between science, technology and society. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, the Guardian and many other outlets. He is an editor at Medium.com and the co-founder of MATTER, a Kickstarter-funded hub for deep, intelligent journalism about science, technology and the future. Dan Gillmor, author and professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication; regular contributor to The Guardian. More: http://dangillmor.com/about Eileen Gunn is a writer and editor whose short stories have been published in Wired, Hayakawa’s S-F, Nature and Asimov’s Science Fiction. Her fiction has received the Nebula Award in the United States and the Sense of Gender Award in Japan. She is the former director of advertising and sales promotion for Microsoft and former director of marketing for Global Automation, and is a member of the board of directors for the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Wendy Ju is Executive Director for Interaction Design Research at Stanford’s Center for Design Research, and an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Design Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her current research is primarily focused on the design of interactive devices, particularly human-robot interaction and autonomous car interfaces. Lee Konstantinou, Novelist; Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland; Associate Editor for Fiction and Criticism, Los Angeles Review of Books. Lee wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire (HarperCollins, 2009) and co-edited The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (University of Iowa, 2012) with Samuel Cohen. Andrew Losowsky is a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. Previously the senior books editor at The Huffington Post, his book Fully Booked: Ink on Paper looked at how print has been reacting to digital. He also wrote Reading in Four Dimensions, about how print and digital have different relationships to time, and Turning Pages: Editorial Design for Print Media. He has spoken at The Frankfurt Book Festival, BookExpo America and many other publishing events. He also creates museum-like experiences, magazines, stories. Nina Miller has been a designer at Arizona State University since 2005. Nina teaches foundation courses in the ASU Visual Communications program and she has been an actor and performer in Phoenix for nearly 20 years. Her Interaction Design research combines these worlds: theatrical improvisation and how it might inspire the collaborative design process. Nina is a board member, instructor and improvisor at The Torch Theatre, a non-profit improv collective in central Phoenix. Kiyash Monsef produces video and motion graphics, writes stories and creates graphic novels. He wrote and produced a graphic novel and a video trailer for the World Bank’s social innovation game EVOKE, and his documentary work with the TV Free Burning Man special on Current TV was nominated for an Emmy Award. Kiyash has collaborated with clients including Motorola, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, the Institute for the Future, the American Heart Association, the American Chemical Society, and Greenpeace. Pat Murphy is a science fiction writer, a toy maker, and a science writer. For 25 years, she served as head science writer at the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and human perception. Currently, she is a writer, editor, and product developer at Klutz, the publisher that started the "book plus" category in 1977 with publication of "Juggling for the Complete Klutz," which came with juggling cubes. Pat’s work has been honored by a variety of organizations, including the American Institute of Physics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Science Fiction Writers of America, and Good Housekeeping. David Rothenberg is a musician and philosopher at the New Jersey Institute of Technology who has written many books that also incorporate music and sound. He is the author of Why Birds Sing, on making music with birds, which was adapted into a feature-length BBC TV documentary in 2007. His latest book, Bug Music, is about making music with insects. Jan Sassano is Editorial/Creative Director at TFIM-Outside Reading, a small Bay Area publishing house that specializes in multimedia storytelling—specifically the work of writer/musician Rich Shapero. She edits novels, co-produces original music featuring top recording artists, and commissions visual art series, then manages the production of story apps that fuse these media and push the boundaries of how stories are told.John D. Berry
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