Jon Pincus
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Jon Pincusâ current professional projects include Tales from the Net (a book on social networks co-authored with Deborah Pierce), starting a strategy consulting practice, and blogging at Liminal States and elsewhere. Previous work includes leading the Ad Astra project as General Manger for Strategy Development in Microsoftâs Online Services Group; creating the static analysis tools PREfix and PREfast (now available in Visual Studio) at his startup Intrinsa and then at Microsoft Research; security planning with the Windows Security Push and XPSP2 task forces; and the National Academies/CSTB panel âSufficient Evidence?â His primary research interest is the implications of recasting the field of computer science as a social science. In addition to the apply this lens to computer security, other social science approaches embodied in Ad Astra and the earlier Project Fabulous include asset-based thinking, narratology, cognitive diversity, intersectionality, psychology, gender and communications, philosophy of technoscience, oppression theory, and hot pink beanbag chairs.
