Interview with Mark Bernstein

Abstract

Mark Bernstein is chief scientist at Eastgate Systems, Inc. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he received his Ph.D. (in physical chemistry) from Harvard University. After helping to organize Eastgate in 1982, he joined the research staff at the Artificial Intelligence group at E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., where here remained until returning to Eastgate in 1987. At Eastgate, he has overseen Eastgate's influential hypertext publishing program, which includes many of the most respected fiction and nonfiction hypertexts that have appeared to date. He has managed development of the Storyspace hypertext writing environment and designed Tinderbox, a content assistant for making, analyzing, and sharing notes. A part of nearly every ACM Hypertext Conference program committee since 1989, he has twice been its program co-chair, and was its keynote speaker in 1999. He is currently program chair of WikiSym '08, the 4th ACM Symposium on Wikis. His book, The Tinderbox Way, was published by Eastgate in 2006.