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Mark S. Ackerman is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He conducts research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction. The theoretical focus of his research group's work is on the interplay of the social world with computational systems. He is particularly interested in technical-social co-design, and his research group currently has projects in information access and change, privacy, and organizational memory. Dr. Ackerman has previously held positions at the University of California, Irvine in the Computing, Organizations, Policy, and Society (CORPS) group and at MIT. Dr. Ackerman holds a Ph.D. from MIT.