Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author of more than 180 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. Her book, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, was published by the MIT Press in October, 2007. Her previous book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), won the Best Information Science book of the year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a lead investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Systems (CENS), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, where she conducts data practices research. She chaired the Task Force on Cyberlearning for the NSF (report to be released in July, 2008). She is a fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science and a member of the US National CODATA Committee.