Tim Lenoir is the Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies & Society at Duke University. He has published extensively on the history of biomedical sciences and is currently engaged in an investigation of the development of computer graphics, medical visualization technology, and the introduction of virtual reality and to surgery.
Lenoir has also been deeply involved in constructing collaborative, online digital libraries for a number of projects, including How They Got Game -- a large-scale research project on the history of interactive simulation and videogames.
Patrick Herron joined the Jenkins Chair in August 2007 to support the Chair's research initiatives. His main interest is in text mining, specifically in semantics-based representations of large text collections as well as the application of text mining to scientific discovery, information architecture, and medicine. Patrick is a recent graduate of the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
