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Christine Peterson is credited with suggesting the term "open source software". Peterson, who received her B.A. in Chemistry from M.I.T., writes, lectures, and delivers media briefs on new technologies, especially nanotechnology. She is the Founder and Vice-President of Public Policy of the Foresight Institute, a think-tank and public interest institute focused on nanotechnology. She is co-author of Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work, knOwhere Press, 1997, with Gayle Pergamit and with Eric Drexler and Gayle Pergamit, she wrote Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution, Morrow, 1991. Both are available in the full text online. Peterson also serves on the advisory board of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. ----
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