About

As Director of the Science and Humanities Scholars Program at Carnegie Mellon University, I am active in general education revision, academic program development, and course innovation. My current courses involve history of ideas (the circle in Western philosophy, mathematics, science, architecture, and literature) and future of ideas (time capsules and commuication with extraterrestrial intelligence). My current main project is Earth Tapestry, which seeks to identify and commemorate locations by crowdsourcing, with a website to collate suggestions and data analytics methods to aggregate individual preferences. The information will be preserved in redundant deep archives, including on the surface of the Moon in 2015. Global in content, massively participatory, and enduring for millions of years, Earth Tapestry is the first project to involve humanity in active conversation with itself about communicating with distant intelligences.