David Guston is Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University. He is also director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU, a $6.2 million Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center funded by the National Science Foundation and dedicated to research, education, and engagement on the societal issues around emerging nanotechnologies. He is the North American editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Science & Public Policy and a member of the editorial boards of the new journal NanoEthics and VEST: The Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. In 2002, his book "Between Politics and Science" (Cambridge U. Press, 2000) won the Don K. Price award from the American Political Science Association for best book in science and technology policy. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993, and he served a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Guston has also worked at the U.S. congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the former chair of that association's section on the societal impacts of science and engineering.
Comment: Patrick Windham.
This talk is part of Stanford's Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society.