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William J. Mitchell is Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and Head of the Media Arts and Sciences Program at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.He holds degrees from the University of Melbourne, Yale, and Cambridge. He is a licensed architect, a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before coming to MIT, where he served as dean of the School of Architecture and Planning from 1992 to 2003, he held faculty positions at UCLA, Cambridge, and Harvard. He has also held numerous visiting academic positions, including that of Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia. At MIT he serves as Architectural Advisor to the President of MIT, and has played a major role in the current large-scale rebuilding of the MIT campus. He chairs the MIT Press Editorial Board, is a member of the Management Board of the MIT Press, and serves as a trustee of Wellesley College.He is the author of thirteen books on architecture and urban design, information and media technology, and the visual arts. These include The Logic of Architecture, The Reconfigured Eye, City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1996), and E-topia: 'Urban Life, Jim - But Not As We Know It' (MIT Press, 2000). The latest, published by the MIT Press in October 2003, is Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. In 2002/2003 he chaired the National Academies panel that produced the report Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity (Washington DC, National Academies Press, 2003).