Talk by Simon Cole, UC Irvine. Comment: Erin Murphy, UC Berkeley.
Simon A. Cole is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University, and he specializes in the historical and sociological study of the interaction between science, technology, law, and criminal justice. Dr. Cole is the author of "Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification" (Harvard University Press, 2001), which was awarded the 2003 Rachel Carson Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science. He is a recipient of a CAREER Award (2004-2009), the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for new faculty members, and he is a member of the American Judicature Society Commission on Forensic Science and Public Policy. His current interests are the sociology of forensic science and the development of criminal identification databases and biometric technologies.
This presentation is part of the new series "Stanford Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society," which will convene at noon each Friday of spring quarter.