William Sims Bainbridge, PhD has written 30 books and over 300 articles or book chapters, in areas such as technological innovation, computational analysis, social movements, and modern culture.  He represented the social and information sciences in organizing the Converging Technologies conferences of the U.S. government, which resulted in 11 edited volumes that sought to unite nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science. He currently manages a program that supports research on human-centered computing.