Colleagues, friends and family:
- Jofish Kaye, who works on technologies that support intimacy, and on the problem of evaluation in HCI
- Shay David, whose work on Open Source software is absolutely extraordinary in both depth and scope
- Emily Dean who takes pictures of Mars
- Eugene Medynskiy, who works on social networking and lately on technologies to support spirituality
- Andrew Fiore, at Berkeley SIMS who studies online dating communities
- John Downer, who wrote an award-winning dissertation on engineers who throw chickens at jet engines. No kidding.
- My colleague David Ribes at the School of Information and Science Studies at U Michigan who works on cyberinfrastructure.
- Campbell Vertesi, my brother the Opera Singer
- David Vertesi, my brother the Rock Star