Lorenzo Imbesi
Carleton University
Canada

Lorenzo Imbesi, Dott.Arch., Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Theories of Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has been teaching and researching since 1998 at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), fellow of ICCS – Government of Canada, is a member of the Design History Society, speaker for international conferences, also as keynote and scientific coordinator, member of the Research Board of National and European researches, essayist for many theoretical and design reviews, currently he is Co-Director of the magazine “DIID – Disegno Industriale” and contributes to Italian magazines and newspapers. Interests include design culture, focusing on its critical expressions and theoretical inter/trans/post-disciplinary implications with contemporary knowledge society.

Bruce Sterling
European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland
United States

Bruce Sterling is a professor of Internet studies and science fiction at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. He is an Austin-based science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as a cyberspace theorist. His writings have been very influential in the cyberpunk movement in literature, specifically the novels Heavy Weather (1994), Islands in the Net (1988), Schismatrix (1985), The Artificial Kid (1980), and Involution Ocean (1977). Along with William Gibson, another one of the major figures of cyberpunk, Bruce Sterling co-authored the novel The Difference Engine (1990), a novel which is part of the steampunk sub-genre. The novel forms an alternate or speculative history set in 1855 London, which is anachronistically advanced. Bruce Sterling is the editor of Mirrorshades, co-editor of The Cyberpunk Anthology, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Donald Norman
http://www.jnd.org/
Northwester University
United States

Donald Norman is Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University. His book, Living With Complexity, is forthcoming at MIT Press in fall 2010. See his entry at Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Norman, and his own website, http://www.jnd.org/.

Derrick de Kerckhove
University of Toronto and University of Naples Federico II
Canada

Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the former Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. He is currently Professor in the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Naples Federico II