Scott D. Dexter

Scott Dexter is Professor of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College (CUNY), where he has taught since 1998. His research centers on exploring the social role of computing: while his formal training is in computer science, his scholarship is heavily influenced by the social sciences and humanities. In addition to an abiding interest in the philosophical implications of the free and open-source software phenomenon, he is currently working on projects concerning computer ethics and the education of computing; the role of aesthetics and creativity in software development; and a book manuscript, tentatively titled Android Poetics: Bodies in Computation, which seeks to understand how the post-war rise of computation has inflected our understanding of the condition of being human.

He is also an avid student of the Persian kamancha, an ancestor of the violin.