Name:William D. Senn

Bio:

I am a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at Tarleton State University, where my work brings information science theory to bear on AI-mediated systems, formative work, and human judgment.

My recent article, “The Informing Act: Apprehension in AI-Mediated Systems,” published in the Journal of Documentation, formalizes information as a change in the configuration of a knowing subject rather than as transmission, retrieval, or content delivery. That work now anchors several related projects on AI use, machine knowing, programming environments, and the design of systems that preserve the conditions for human uptake.

I work across computer information systems, information science, programming language design, and doctoral education, having served on thirteen doctoral dissertation committees across six disciplines. I am Past President of the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute.

Before academia, I spent two decades in industry doing systems architecture, software development, and information security.

Affiliation:Tarleton State University

Research interests:Computer Languages, Cognition, Information Science Foundations