About us (SoII)

The Science of Information Institute is devoted to the development and recognition of information as a unique science that crosses traditional scholarly disciplines.

The Institute was established in February 2006, grown out of discussions with scholars in diverse disciplines across the world, as well as leaders of key international governmental and non-governmental organizations whose missions span science and information. The Institute strives to mobilize, correlate, and coordinate both innovative research and usable development.

Board of Directors

Science Advisory Committee

  • Dr. Søren Brier, Professor of the semiotics of information, cognition and communications sciences, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
  • Dr. Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (United States)
  • Dr. Mark Burgin, Visiting Scholar, UCLA (United States)
  • Dr. Jerry LR Chandler, Biochemist (United States)
  • Dr. John Collier, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Information Theorist, University of Natal, (South Africa)
  • Dr. Mary Jo Deering*, Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
  • Dr. José María Díaz, invited Professor in Engineering and Philosophy, University of León (Spain)
  • Dr. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Information Theorist and Physicist (Sweden)
  • Dail DeWitt Doucette, Information Scientist (United States)
  • Dr. Luciano Floridi, Professor of Information Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire & University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
  • Ted Goranson, Information Theorist (United States)
  • Dr. Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Professor of Internet Society, University of Salzburg (Austria)
  • Alicia Juarrero, Professor, Prince George’s Community College (United States and Cuba)
  • Dr. Zong-Rong Li, Vicedirector & Professor at the Social Information Science Institute, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (China)
  • Dr. Leah A. Lievrouw, Professor of Information Studies at the University of California (United States)
  • Dr. Robert K. Logan, Physicist and Media Ecologist, University of Illinois and University of Toronto (Canada)
  • Dr. Pedro Marijuán, Information Theorist (Spain)
  • Dr. Koichiro Matsuno, Professor Emeritus of biophysics in the Nagaoka University of Technology (Japan)
  • Dr. John Mingers, Professor of Operational Research and Information Systems at Kent Business School, University of Kent (United Kingdom)
  • Dr. Francisco Salto, Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of León (Spain)
  • Dr. Edwina Taborsky, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Bishop’s University (Canada)
  • Dr. Rainer Zimmermann, Physicist and Philosopher (Germany)

For more information about the Institute visit the website (currently under rearrangement)

Short biographies of the members constituting Science Advisory Committee are compiled here (updated: May 2010)

Administration of information and communication resources

  • Dr. José María Díaz, invited Professor in Engineering and Philosophy, University of León (Spain)
  • Anthony Hoffmann, doctoral student at the School of information studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (U.S.)

(*) Dr. Deering participates in the Science of Information Institute on a personal basis. Her participation does not represent an endorsement by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or any other government agency.