This is my formal bio, for talks and other announcements:
Paul Dourish is Chancellor's Professor and the Steckler Endowed Chair in Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he directs the Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology. He holds appointments in Informatics and Anthropology, and is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses primarily on understanding information technology as a site of social and cultural production, combining human-computer interaction, social informatics, and science and technology studies. He is the author of several books, most recently "The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information" (MIT Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the British Computer Society (BCS), and is a member of the SIGCHI Academy. He has been awarded the AMIA Diana Forsythe Prize and has twice won the ACM CSCW conference's Lasting Impact Award. In 2025, he received ACM SIGCHI's award for Lifetime Achievement in Research.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College, London, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the faculty at UCI, he was a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Laboratory of Xerox PARC; he has also held research positions at Apple and at Rank Xerox EuroPARC, and visiting positions at Stanford, MIT, the IT University of Copenhagen, Intel, and Microsoft Research.
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