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Wednesday, 25th November 2009

Friends and Colleagues Mount a Search for a Missing Scholar, Philip Agre

Friends and Colleagues Mount a Search for a Missing Scholar, Philip Agre

Philip Agre was an associate professor of information sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, and for years he ran a popular technology e-mail list with thousands of subscribers. But one day the 49-year-old scholar just stopped showing up on the campus, and now colleagues have deployed Twitter, Facebook, and the Web to try to find him.

Last month the university police department put out a missing-person alert for Mr. Agre, whose absence was reported to authorities by his sister. The alert says he abandoned his apartment and his job "sometime between December 2008 and May 2009." It also notes that he suffers from "manic depression."
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Some of the people leading the online search have never even met Mr. Agre, but felt they knew him through his former e-mail list, the Red Rock Eater News Service. The scholar stopped operating the list in 2005, but it was an influential information source throughout the 1990s.

+ Friends of Phil Agre -- Missing Since 2008/2009
+ Fans and Friends of Phil Agre on Facebook
+ Critical Technical Practice (Phil's work)

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education


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