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Dr. William Sims Bainbridge (October 12, 1940 - present) is an innovative American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and also teaches sociology as a part-time professor at George Mason University. Bainbridge is most well known for his controversial work on the sociology of religion, however recently he has published work studying the sociology of video gaming. The logo of the National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. ...
He began his academic career at the Choate Rosemary Hall preparatory school in his birthstate Connecticut. He went on to matriculate at Yale University, Oberlin University, and finally settled on Boston University. He studied music and became a skilled piano tuner. In his free time, he constructed harpsichords and clavichords that can still be found in few households with the "Bainbridge" name. Choate Rosemary Hall Choate Rosemary Hall is a coed prep school for boarding and day students. ...
He eventually received his Ph.D in sociology at Harvard University and went on to study the sociology of religious cults. In 1976 he published his first book The Spaceflight Revolution, which examined the push for space exploration in the 1960s. He then went onto publish his second and most popular book in 1978, entitled Satan's Power, which described several years in which Bainbridge infiltrated and observed the Process Church, a religious cult related to Scientology. In the next thirty years, Bainbridge went onto publish thirteen more books dealing with space, religion, and psychology. These publications included a text entitled Experiments in Psychology (1986) which included cutting-edge psychology experimentation software coded by Bainbridge. He also studied the religious cult The Children of God, also known as the Family International, in his 2002 book The Endtime Family: Children of God. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Aside from his books, Bainbridge has published over 200 articles and essays for various journals and encyclopedias. His recent work has shifted towards the study of the sociology of video gaming, beginning with the publication of a new article (co-authored with his daughter Wilma Alice Bainbridge) on the potentially interesting aspects of glitches in video games. He is also very involved in the study of "personality capture" in software, in which one may save one's personality in a computer through the answering of vast personality surveys.
He is distantly related to Commodore William Bainbridge. William Bainbridge (1774-1833). ...
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