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• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): "a non-profit, non-partisan organization working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression in the arena of computers and the Internet." (Shari Steele, Executive Director & President)
• Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society: "a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development."
• MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS): "an interdepartmental laboratory whose principal goal is research in computer science and engineering. It is dedicated to the invention, development and understanding of information technologies which are expected to drive substantial technical and socio-economic change."

• ACH/ALLC Conference: "The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. The theme for the 2001 conference is "Digital Media and Humanities Research." June 13-17 at New York University in Greenwich Village, New York City
• Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC): "provides one of the world's first university based digital points-of-publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis. At the same time, it supports the continuation of traditional research practices, including scholarly peer review, academic freedom, network formation, and intellectual experimentation." (Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Tech)
• Cyberspace Policy Institute: "a center for George Washington University and the Washington area for the analysis of policy problems that have a significant computer systems component. Inside GW, the Institute brings together researchers with interests in these areas, bridging discipline barriers, much as the new information age is bridging cultural and geopolitical barriers. Outside, it works with government and private organizations to examine important issues in computer and communications systems policy." (George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science)
• Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: "IATH's goal is to explore and expand the potential of information technology as a tool for humanities research." (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
• MIT Comparative Media Studies: "Comparative Media Studies at MIT seeks to teach the next generation of leaders in industry, journalism, government, the arts, and the academy to Think Across Media." (Henry Jenkins, Director)
• MIT Media Lab: "Since opening its doors in the fall of 1985, the Media Laboratory has pursued its educational and research mission, and helped to create now-familiar areas such as digital video and multimedia. The success of this agenda is now leading to a growing focus on how bits meet atoms: how electronic information overlaps with the everyday physical world."
• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: "The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture." (David Silver, Director)

Upcoming Conferences:

• The Sixth Biennial Participatory Design Conference: (conference theme: "Designing Digital Environments--Bringing in more voices") "Participatory Design (PD) is a set of diverse ways of thinking, planning, and acting through which people make their work, technologies, and social institutions more responsive to human needs." (Todd Cherkasky, Conference Chair)
• The Digital Arts & Culture Conference: The fourth international Digital Arts & Culture Conference will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, April 26-28, 2001. This conference aims to embrace and explore the cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural theory and practice of contemporary digital arts and culture. (David Reville, Elli Mylonas, and Julia Flanders, Conference Co-Chairs)

Former Conferences:

• Digital Arts and Culture 2000: The third international Digital Arts & Culture Conference held in Bergen, Norway, August 2-4, 2000.