7:00 — 11:00 Banquet Leigh Star: “The Poetics of Infrastructure” Muncie Center for the Arts Leigh Star's (communication.ucsd.edu/ people/f_star.htm|) research is in the sociology of science and technology, and is especially concerned with new information technologies and life sciences. She's a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Leigh has analyzed work practices and knowledge production in a range of venues, including museums, laboratories, hospitals, libraries, and high-tech research and development sites. Her analytic approach draws on symbolic interactionism, activity theory, and feminist theory. Publications include Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences {1999}, The Cultures of Computing (1995), Ecologies of Knowledge; Work and Politics in Science and Technology (1995), and Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty (1989). Awards (To)night Best Webtext Award Kairos Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments will again recognize outstanding Webtexts. Last year’s winners were Jane Love ("MOO-Scream on its wayves to WOOmb SCREAMS") and Victor Vitanza ("CompoZing com_PLI_cating Processes"), from PRE/TEXT 3.1 (1999-2000). According to Kairos coeditors Doug Eyman and James Inman, this year's Best Webtext Awards “also recognize exemplary Webtexts reflecting the field of computers and writing.” Winners: Computers & Writing 2001 69