An independent researcher, Paul Duguid currently holds positions as part-time visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organisational and Industrial Sociology, and a research specialist in Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. In Spring, 2003, he will be maitre de recherche at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. From 1989 to 2001 he was a consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Prior to that he was a member of the Institute for Research on Learning. His interest in multidisciplinary, collaborative work has led him to work with social scientists, computer scientists, economists, linguists, management theorists, and social psychologists. While continuing to address the issues reflected in The Social Life of Information he is currently investigating the historical development of the institutions that shaped international trade in the eighteenth century. His writing has appeared in a broad array of scholarly fields and journals including anthropology, business and business history, cognitive science, computer science, design, education, economic history, human-computer interaction, management, organization theory, and wine history. Duguid has also written for a variety of less specialized publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Nation, and the Threepenny Review.