author biography: William L. Benzon
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William L. Benzon 's career runs from cognitive science, through art, music, and the web. He has published Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture in 2001 and is on the scientific advisory board for the Institute of Music and Neurologic Function in New York City. Previously he was a Senior Scientist with MetaLogics, Inc., where he worked on knowledge representation and information design for web-based health services. Bill has taught in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is internationally recognized for his numerous scholarly articles, reviews, and technical reports on African-American music, literary analysis and theory, cultural evolution, cognition and brain theory, visual thinking, and technical communication. In conjunction with Richard Friedhoff he has written a book on computer graphics and image-processing entitled Visualization: The Second Computer Revolution. Mind-Culture Coevolution: http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/ The Valve (cultural blog): http://tinyurl.com/ormqg
Primiary E-mail: bbenzon@mindspring.com