Stephen Ansolabehere, Ph.D. Professor Ansolabehere, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Political Science, is an expert on American politics, elections, democracy, and the mass media. His current research projects include campaign finance, congressional elections, and party politics. Professor Ansolabehere was awarded a Carnegie Corporation Fellowship last spring to research and write a book entitled The Rise of Money in American Politics. He was one of 12 recipients of grants under a new Carnegie program supporting fundamental research on social change.

Professor Ansolabehere and Professor Shanto Iyengar of Stanford University co-authored Going Negative: How Political Advertising Alienates and Polarizes the American Electorate (Free Press, 1996). They also wrote The Media Game (Macmillan, 1993). He was selected a National Fellow by the Hoover Institution in 1993, received the 1996 Goldsmith Book Prize for Going Negative, and was awarded a Harry S. Truman Fellowship from 1982-86. Professor Ansolabehere joined the MIT faculty in 1993. Prior to that, he taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1989 to 1993. He earned a PhD in political science from Harvard University in 1989, and a BA in political science and BS in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1984.

Thomas R. Palfrey, Ph.D. Dr. Palfrey is Professor of Economics and Political Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been a faculty member of Caltech since 1986, and his research interests include mechanism design, voting behavior, learning in games, collective action problems, and experimental methods. His publications include:

"An Experimental Political Science? Yes, An Experimental Political Science," with D. Kinder. The Political Methodologist, (1991).

"Campaign Spending and Incumbency: An Alternative Simultaneous Equations Approach," with R. Erickson. Journal of Politics, April 1998.

"Political Confederation," with Jacques Crémer. American Political Science Review, March 1999.

Dr. Palfrey received his BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in Social Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1981. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society.

Jehoshua "Shuki" Bruck, Ph.D. Professor Bruck is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems & Electrical Engineering at Cal Tech. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, fault-tolerant systems, error-correcting codes, computation theory and biological systems. Dr. Bruck has an extensive industrial experience, including, with IBM for ten years both at the IBM Almaden Research Center and the IBM Haifa Science center. Dr. Bruck is the recipient of a 1997 IBM Partnership Award, a 1995 Sloan Research Fellowship, a 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, six IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Awards, a 1992 IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for his work on ``Harmonic Analysis of Neural Networks'' and a 1994 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his contributions to the design and implementation of the SP-1, the first IBM scalable parallel computer. He published more than 150 journal and conference papers in his areas of interests and he holds 22 patents. Dr. Bruck is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Jehoshua Bruck received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1982 and 1985, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989.

Ted Selker, Ph.D. Dr. Selker is an Associate Professor of the MIT Media Lab. In addition to MIT, Professor Selker has taught at Brown University, Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Stanford University. He has also held research positions at Weyerhauser, Atari, and IBM. At MIT, Dr. Selker as conducted research on the Intelligent Bed, Talking Trivet, EyeAre, Gesture Ball, Chameleon Tables, Flexor, Canopy Climb, and a Sociable Floor Jukebox.

 

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