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Alex Wright is a writer, designer, and researcher who has held leadership roles at Google, Instagram, and The New York Times, among others. He has written two books on the history of the Information Age, as well as more than 100 published articles. He holds a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Alex's books include Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (Oxford, 2014), and Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages (Joseph Henry, 2007). His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon.com, The Wilson Quarterly, The Christian Science Monitor, The Believer, Harvard Magazine, Utne Reader, Yankee, Think, Interactions, Boxes and Arrows, New Architect, WebTechniques, Boston Business, Design Times and Library Journal, among others.

Alex has also led research and design projects for Google, Instagram, Etsy, The New York Times, IBM, Microsoft, The Long Now Foundation, Harvard University, the Internet Archive, and Yahoo!, among others. His work has won numerous industry awards, including a Webby, Cool Site of the Year, the PRSA Silver Anvil and an American Graphic Design Award. He is currently a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Interaction Design.

Alex holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University, an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University. He has also completed graduate coursework in journalism at Harvard, and in usability engineering at UC-Berkeley.
Supervisors: Jonathan Chapman, Stuart Candy, and Molly Wright Steenson

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