Jon Pincus

Jon Pincus' current professional projects include Tales from the Net (a book on social networks co-authored with Deborah Pierce), starting a strategy consulting practice. Previous work includes leading the Ad Astra (Analysis and Development of Awesome STRAtegies) project as General Manger for Strategy Development in Microsoft's Online Services Group; creating the static analysis tools PREfix and PREfast (now available in Visual Studio) at his startup Intrinsa and then at Microsoft Research; security planning with the Windows Security Push and XPSP2 task forces; and the National Academies/CSTB panel Sufficient Evidence?. His primary current research interests include the interactions between social networks and diversity theory, trolls, and recasting the field of computer science as a social science. Some of the social science approaches embodied in his Ad Astra and the earlier Project Fabulous include asset-based thinking, narratology, cognitive diversity, intersectionality, standpoint theories and situated knowledges, oppression theory, action research, and hot pink beanbag chairs. He currently blogs about all of these topics as well as voting rights, political activism, poetry, and whatever else crosses his mind at Liminal States and elsewhere.