1. Robert Kraut Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D., Social Psychology, Yale University, 1973 Current research areas –Everyday use of the Internet –Technology and conversation –Collaboration in small work groups. –Computers in organizations http://www- 2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/kraut/www/kraut.htmlhttp://www- 2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/kraut/www/kraut.html

2. Leigh Star Professor, Department of Communication, UC San Diego PhD Sociology, UC San Francisco, 1983 Sociology of science and technology –Work practices in museums, laboratories, hospitals, libraries and high-tech research and development sites http://weber.ucsd.edu/~lstar/home.htm

3. Marilyn Tremaine Professor Information Systems Department New Jersey Institute of Technology PhD, Communication, USC Previously at University of Toronto (Marilyn Mantei); collaborative systems design; CAVECAT video desktop collaboration system

4. UMich CREW Collaboratory for Research on Electroic Work http://www.crew.umich.edu/

5. Grouplab University of Calgary/Saul Greenberg http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/grouplab/

6. ACM SIGGroup http://www.acm.org/siggroup/