Alison Adam

Alison Adam is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Salford. Her research interests include gender and information systems, computer ethics and critical information systems. These interests are combined in her latest book 'Gender, Ethics and Information Technology' (Palgrave Macmillan 2005). She has also published a monograph on gender and artificial intelligence: 'Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine' (Routledge 1998) and co-edited (with Eileen Green) a collection of papers on gender and IT: 'Virtual Gender' (Routledge 2001).

She is involved in a number of projects on women and IT at Salford. She has just become chair of IFIP WG 9.8 'Women and IT' and hopes to organize a conference in the 'Women. Work and Computerization' series for 2008. At the Limerick conference she will have just completed a stint as Head of the Information Systems Institute at Salford and so she fully expects to be 'demob happy'. Her next major writing project is planned as a book on the influence of nineteenth century conceptions of evolution and the nature of life on the design of twenty first century information and communications technologies.