Friends and Colleagues Search for a Missing Scholar, Philip Agre
UCLA Police Department
Philip Agre was an associate professor of information sciences at the U. of California at Los Angeles, but he apparently abandoned his apartment and his job sometime between December 2008 and last May.
Philip Agre was an associate professor of information sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, and for years he ran a popular technology e-mail list with thousands of subscribers. But one day the 49-year-old scholar just stopped showing up on the campus, and now colleagues have deployed Twitter, Facebook, and the Web to try to find him. Last month the university police...
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