Diane Proudfoot is Associate Professor/Reader and Head of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Diane has held various scholarships and visiting fellowships, including at MIT, New York University, Georgetown University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Together with Jack Copeland, she founded the online Turing Archive for the History of Computing, and received a grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand for research into the philosophical foundations of cognitive and computer science. She has published in the Journal of Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Scientific American, and numerous other philosophy and science journals.