I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. My work examines the public policy implications stemming from the design of communication technology. I am currently working on an NSF grant titled Governing With Information Technologies. The project web site contains a good overview of my research.

My areas of focus are currently defaults and open standards. The research on defaults is in the process of being published and is available in the Publications section. The work on open standards includes studying the impact of open standards, the adoption of an open standards policy in Massachusetts, and analyzing interoperability for the ODF and OOXML document formats. Drafts are available in the Publications section. This work has received a Best Paper Award at the 2007 Digital Government Conference and a Best Paper Award in the E-Government Track at the HICSS-41(2008).

Another interest is video surveillance. Specifically, I follow the developments in Chicago's use of video surveillance. I also study the development of "smart cameras" that utilize additional sensors and/or computer processing techniques. I discuss recent developments in my Smart Cameras blog. I have been interviewed numerous times on video surveillance in Chicago as well as the emergence of smart camera systems.