Geoffrey C. Bowker is Executive Director, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor
Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University – a center whose mission is to research and promote the use of science and technology for the common good.  He was previously Professor in and Chair of the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.  He has written with Leigh Star a book on the history and sociology of medical classifications (Sorting Things Out: Classification and Practice - published by MIT Press in September 1999).  This book looks at the classification of nursing work, diseases, viruses and race.  His recent book, entitled Memory Practices in the Sciences about formal and informal recordkeeping in science over the past two hundred years, which includes extensive discussion of biodiversity informatics, was published by MIT Press in February 2006 and won the ASIST prize for best book in Information Science that year. More information, including a number of publications can be found at his website: http://epl.scu.edu/~gbowker; information about the Center is at http://www.scu.edu/sts.