Luis Felipe R. Murillo is an anthropologist whose research work is dedicated to the study of digital technologies and cultures. He was trained in cultural anthropology and social sciences in Brazil (UFRGS) and United States (UCLA) and has conducted multi-sited research on hackerspaces and Free and Open Source communities in China, Brazil, Japan, and United States. He is currently a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is also an advisor of Ada Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of gender equality in Open technology, and a member of the International Free Software Forum organizing committee, one of the biggest Free Software events in the world. His areas of research interest include science and technology studies, anthropology of science and technology, social theory, and discourse analysis.

In this talk, Mr. Murillo will address one point of intersection between STS and Anthropology regarding the notion of "expertise". Based on multi-sited ethnographic research at community-based spaces for computer training in software and hardware development, he will present an approach to the study of computing expertise with a focus on its sociotechnical dimensions. The goal is to help advance theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of global sociotechnical phenomena by creating interfaces between STS and anthropology.