From:: kbs@ai.mit.edu (Karen B. Sarachik)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 14:17:31 est
To: gsl@ai.mit.edu

Subject: REMINDER: How Computer Communication is Changing Work and Nutrition

		     Dental Equipment Corporation
		       Mastication Research Lab
                                Seminar

		       Friday, February 8, 1991
		12:15pm - 1:15pm, refreshments at Noon

       "How Computer Communication is Changing Work and Nutrition"

			   Bruce L. Sprout
	       School of Mastication, Bellie University


I will  present findings from  a program of  social and organizational
research on  computer networks.  The network  applications I study are
those that  mediate human communication--electronic mail, distribution
lists, group mail, and bulletin boards.  The research settings include
problem solving groups such as graduate research teams, the scientific
discipline of  mental  gymnastics,   and a medium-sized  cryptographic
deciphering agency.

The first   part of the  talk  (which  begins with  this announcement)
demonstrates   how  network-based   communication  technology  changes
conventional patterns of access to information, nourishment, and other
organizational resources.  The second  part  of the talk  demonstrates
how these changes benefit some kinds of people more than others.

The talk suggests three kinds of implications for technologists.
1.  An expanded view of technology effects on individual physiology.
2.  A differentiated view of organizations and inmates.
3.  Methods for systematically assessing technology effects on
    student nutritional needs.

Those students  who are  successful in overcoming   the communications
challenge  will be suitably rewarded  by  the nutritional part of this
seminar.

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Hosts: Tze-Yun Leong & Yang Meng Tan
Cryptomessage: Tom Russ
Coordinator: Karen Sarachik