Emerging Technologies Seminar

You are cordially invited to attend the opening event in the 1999-2000season of the Emerging Technologies seminar series: a lecture by

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Science Writer and Author of Complexity, anticipating the upcomingpublication of his book on the history of computing, The Technology ofEnchantment.

The Evolution of Computing:
Management of Innovation,ARPA-Style

Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 4:00 - 6:00 P.M.

Hosted by
The Science & Technology Policy Institute
RAND
1333 HStreet, NW Suite 800
Washington DC 20005

Light refreshments will be served following the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to all. Seating is limited. To reserve a place, sende-mail, or call 202-296-5000 x1217.

Brief biography of the speaker:M. Mitchell Waldrop earned a Ph.D. in elementary particle physics at theUniversity of Wisconsin in 1975, and a master's in journalism at Wisconsin in1977. From 1977 to 1980, he was a writer and West Coast bureau chief for Chemicaland Engineering News. From 1980 to 1991, he served as a senior writer atScience magazine, where he covered physics, space, astronomy, computerscience, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, psychology, andneuroscience. He is the author of Man-Made Minds (1987), a book aboutartificial intelligence; and Complexity (1992), a book about the Santa FeInstitute and the new sciences of complexity. He lives in Washington, D.C., withhis wife, Amy E. Friedlander, and their dog, Betsy.

Originally known as the Critical Technologies Institute,
the Science andTechnology Policy Institute formally adopted its new name on October 1, 1998.
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