Alan Liu

Alan Liu is Professor in the English Department at the  University of California, Santa Barbara.  He is the author of  Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford Univ.  Press,  1989); The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of  Information (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004); and Local  Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the  Database (forthcoming, Univ. of Chicago Press).  He is  principal investigator of the UC Multi-campus Research Group,  Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and  Cultural Practices of Online Reading; principal investigator  of the UCSB Transcriptions Project (Literature and the  Culture of Information); and co-director of his English  Department's undergraduate specialization on Literature and  the Culture of Information.  

• Michael Jensen, "The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority," Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), 53, no. 41 (15 June 2007): B6, available online http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i41/41b00601.htm
• Carl Zimmer, "From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm," New York Times, 13 November 2007 (on Ian Duncan's modelings of animal swarms), http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13traff.html
• Excerpt from "Ants Have Algorithms: A Talk with Ian Couzin," Edge, 13 March 2008, http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/couzin08/couzin08_index.html