Eleanor Wynn
I am an anthropologist. I pioneered the use of ethnography and sociolinguistics to design new information technology starting in the mid-70s as an intern at Xerox PARC and a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Over time I scaled up the match between technology design and human situations to include large organizations and multi-scale analysis. Most recently I held the title of Principal Engineer in IT Research at Intel Corporation. During the last ten years I have been working with complexity science concepts, agent-based models and machine learning. I sponsored Intel’s membership in Santa Fe Institute, which provided a unique opportunity to gain depth about this framework and reconcile notions from the social construction of knowledge and meaning. I am interested in applying situated knowledge to computational models of human behavior. I was raised in Latin America, am bilingual-bicultural and take a deep interest in understanding cultures around the world, especially in these times of change. I use the World Systems perspective to make sense of the dramatic shifts we are all experiencing. I would like to participate in multi-disciplinary settings where people are working on organizational and social change, socially aware technology innovation, sustainability and shared prosperity .