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David Kirsh is Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He was educated at Oxford University (D.Phil), did post doctoral research at MIT in Artificial Intelligence, and has held research or visiting professor positions at MIT and Stanford University and given lectures and keynotes throughout the world. He has written extensively on situated cognition and especially on how the environment can be shaped to simplify and extend cognition. He runs the Interactive Cognition Lab at UCSD where the focus is on the way humans are closely coupled to the outside world, and how human environments have evolved to enable us to cope with the complexity of everyday life. His research on dance examines the nature of distributed creative cognition, choreographic instruction, and how bodies can be used as things to think with. Over the last several years he has been working with WM|RD to capture the complete choreographic making process, in order to code, analyze and explore how creativity is distributed over the entire team of WM, the dancers and Odette. Representative publications are: Thinking With The Body; Choreographic Methods for Creating Novel, High Quality Dance; The Intelligent Use of Space; Situated Cognition and Problem Solving. He has won numerous awards and fellowships. He is currently working on a book on Interactivity.