Amy S. Bruckman

Amy Susan Bruckman (born December 21, 1965) is an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the School of Interactive Computing and the GVU Center. She is best known for her pioneering research in the fields of online communities and the learning sciences. In 1999, she was selected as one of Technology Review's TR100 award, honoring 100 remarkable innovators under the age of 35. Amy S. Bruckman was born in New Yor... more

Amy Susan Bruckman (born December 21, 1965) is an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the School of Interactive Computing and the GVU Center. She is best known for her pioneering research in the fields of online communities and the learning sciences. In 1999, she was selected as one of Technology Review's TR100 award, honoring 100 remarkable innovators under the age of 35. Amy S. Bruckman was born in New York, New York. She attended the Horace Mann School, an Ivy Preparatory School in New York City, graduating in 1983. Following that, Bruckman attended Harvard University for her undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1987. She received a master's degree in 1991 from the Interactive Cinema Group at the MIT Media Lab, where she was advised by Glorianna Davenport. Her master's thesis described the Electronic Scrapbook, an intelligent home video editing system. Bruckman went on to pursue a Ph.D. at the Media Lab in... less