Simulation and Its Discontents

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices, all three published by the MIT Press.

William J. Clancey is Chief Scientist of Human-Centered Computing in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.

Stefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life, and Silicon Second Nature.

Yanni Alexander Loukissas is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture.

Sherry Turkle是麻省理工學院的社會科學和科技研究的Abby Rockefeller Mauzé教授，也是麻省理工學院技術與自我倡議的創始人和主任。作為一位心理分析訓練有素的社會學家和心理學家，她是以下書籍的作者：《第二個自我：電腦與人類精神》（麻省理工學院出版社二十週年版）、《網絡時代的身份》和《精神分析政治：雅克·拉康和佛洛伊德的法國革命》。她還是以下三本書的編輯：《引人入勝的物品：我們思考的東西》、《迷戀科學：心靈中的物品》和《設備的內在歷史》，這三本書都由麻省理工學院出版社出版。

William J. Clancey是NASA Ames研究中心智能系統部門的人本中心計算的首席科學家，也是佛羅里達人類和機器認知研究所的高級研究科學家。

Stefan Helmreich是麻省理工學院人類學的Elting E. Morison教授。他是以下書籍的作者：《外星海洋：探索生命極限》、《聲音的極限：探索生命極限》和《矽谷的第二自然》。

Yanni Alexander Loukissas是喬治亞理工學院文學、媒體和傳播學院的數位媒體助理教授。他是《共同設計者：建築中的電腦模擬文化》的作者。