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IEET > Fellows > William Sims Bainbridge

William Sims Bainbridge

William Sims Bainbridge Ph.D. is a prolific and influential sociologist of religion, science and popular culture. Dr. Bainbridge serves as co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the NSF and has recently taught sociology and computational social science at George Mason University. In 1976 he published his first book The Spaceflight Revolution, which examined the push for space exploration in the 1960s. He then went on to publish Satan’s Power, which described several years of infiltration of the Process Church, a religious cult related to Scientology. In the last thirty years, Bainbridge has published more than a dozen more books dealing with space, religion, and psychology. Dr. Bainbridge’s long-standing interest in “personality capture,” using extensive personality surveys to record individual personalities in software, is reflected in works such as Experiments in Psychology (1986) which included cutting-edge psychology experimentation software written by Bainbridge.

Dr. Bainbridge was instrumental in creating the NBIC Converging Technologies program, and in producing its widely read reports:

Dr. Bainbridge’s two most recent books are God from the Machine (2006) and The Secular Abyss (2007).  Dr. Bainbridge has published over 200 articles and essays for various journals and encyclopedias.

Dr. Bainbridge’s CV.


Home Page: http://mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge/

Books


God from the Machine: Artifical Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition by William Sims Bainbridge (2006)

Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies In Society by Mihail Roco and William Sims Bainbridge (2006)

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance by Mihail Roco and William Sims Bainbridge (2003)


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Perspectives on the New Life Technologies   2006-12-04

“Personality Transfer” William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D.   2006-12-04


News


William Sims Bainbridge accepts appointment as first IEET Senior Fellow (Dec 03, 2006)


Past Appearances


Hughes, Bainbridge @ The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future (Second Life - Jun 04, 2008)

Bainbridge @ Convergence of the Real and the Virtual: First Scientific Conf in World of Warcraft (World of Warcraft - May 09, 2008)

Bainbridge on Ethics in Virtual Worlds (Yale, New Haven, CT USA - Mar 26, 2008)

Rothblatt, Bainbridge & Glenn @ Terasem Colloquium on Transbeman Rights (Virtual - Dec 10, 2007)

Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life (Uvvy Island, Second Life - Apr 29, 2007)

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