Christine L. Peterson is an American forecaster and the co-founder and former president of Foresight Institute. She is credited with suggesting the term "open source" when used in connection with software. Peterson holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has been signed up for cryopreservation with the Alcor Life Extension Foundation since the mid-1980s. Career Peterson co-founded Foresight Institute with Eric Drexler in 1986. Her writing and lectures address nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and life extension. She has served on California's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology and the editorial advisory board of NASA's Nanotech Briefs. She also served as secretary and chapters coordinator of the L5 Society, a predecessor of the National Space Society. Works Open-source software Peterson suggested the term "open source" during discussions about the planned release of Netscape's browser source code. The Open Source Initiative dates the naming meeting to February 3, 1998. In a retrospective published in 2018, Peterson described the discussions, dating the meeting at VA Research to February 5:
Books In 1991 she coauthored Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution with Gayle Pergamit and Eric Drexler,Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson (with Gayle Pergamit), Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution, Morrow, 1991. which sketches nanotechnology's potential environmental and medical benefits as well as possible abuses. In 1997 she coauthored Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work with Gayle Pergamit.Chris Peterson and Gayle Pergamit, Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work, knOwhere Press, 1997. Book chapters "Thinking Longer Term about Technology", 2008. References
External links Foresight Institute web page