The first Computer Social Impact Research Institute (CSIRI)
was founded in CA in 1978
and incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) in
1980 (EIN: 94-2618644)
by, Dr. Fred B. Wood, III,
as a vehicle for assessing the social impacts of computer technologies.
The present CSIRI is a new organization founded by the Director on 10/10/2007, in WA state & dedicated to his memory.
UBI: 602 770 270
EIN: 26-1151349
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CSIRI is dedicated to research and education on the social impacts of computing,
including the Internet, and related science and technology.
CSIRI provides specialized consulting services on the impacts of quantum electromagnetics
on energy, transportation,
environment, social equity and civil liberties,
global diplomacy and peaceful coexistence, national security and related areas.
CSIRI uses an holistic systems science methodology to analyze the complex interactions between computers and society.
The CSIRI founder and President, Dr. Frederick B. Wood, III,
held the Ph.D., MSEE and BSEE degrees from the University of California at Berkeley,
worked on microwave radar applications at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
and Berkeley Radiation Laboratories and served for 29 years on the technical staff of IBM Corporation, retiring in 1981.
The first CSIRI President was a founding Member of the
International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS).
He was an honored lecturer, last presenting a paper called
Climate Change and Advanced Electromagnetics
to the ISSS Conference in Toronto in July, 2000.
He passed on in 2006 at 88 years young.
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