Several weeks ago, the family of information studies professor Phil Agre reported him missing, saying that they had not heard from him in over a year.

I regularly read Agre's Red Rock Eater News Service around the turn of the decade. I've also seen Agre speak a conference. He was very interesting - a real heavyweight. I know I've gone digging around on the Internet in recent years to see what the guy has been up to and come up with nothing. In fact I may have done this in the past year...

Andy Carvin:

Several weeks ago, the family of information studies professor Phil Agre reported him missing, saying that they had not heard from him in over a year.

Charlotte P. Lee:

All of us had lost touch with him over the years. How would you know if one of your friends not only lost touch with you, but had also lost touch with almost everyone they know? You wouldn't.

Decius:

I regularly read Agre's Red Rock Eater News Service around the turn of the decade. I've also seen Agre speak at a conference. He was very interesting -- a real heavyweight.

I, too, was a long-time reader of RRE, and had seen him at CFP '99. I remember when he moved from UCSD to UCLA. I own Technology and Privacy, which Agre co-edited with Marc Rotenberg in 1997. On the Friends page, I see familiar names like Michael Froomkin, Keith Dawson, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Philip Greenspun.

Phil Agre, I hope you are well.

Sterling Hayden:

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Sanford Schwartz:

If Schnabel is a surfer in the sense of knowing how to skim existence for its wonders, he is also a surfer in the more challenging sense of wanting to see where something bigger than himself, or the unknown, will take him, even with the knowledge that he might not come back from the trip.

Samantha Power:

There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.

Jeffrey Young:

The scholar apparently had many professional contacts but few close friends. An expert on privacy, he was always guarded about his own, say those who know him.

Libby Purves:

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