Jonathan Grudin

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field = Human-computer interaction CSCW
work_institution = Microsoft Research UC Irvine Wang Laboratories
Aarhus University
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
alma_mater = Reed College Purdue University UCSD
doctoral_advisor = Donald Norman
doctoral_students = Rebecca Grinter Leysia Palen
known_for = Grudin number Grudin Paradox
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prizes = ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy
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Jonathan Grudin is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Grudin is a pioneer of the field of CSCW and one of its most prolific contributors. cite conference | title=Six degrees of jonathan grudin: a social network analysis of the evolution and impact of CSCW research | conference=ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work | year=2004 | last=Horn | first=Daniel B. | coauthors=Thomas A. Finholt, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Dheeraj Motwani, Swapnaa Jayaraman | pages=582 - 591 | publisher=ACM Press | doi=10.1145/1031607.1031707 ] His collaboration distance to other HCI researchers has been described by the Grudin number, similar to the Erdős number in mathematics. Grudin is also well known for the Grudin Paradox, which states basically with respect to the design of collaborative software for organizational settings, "What may be in themanagers' best interests may not be in the ordinary users' interests." [ cite journal | title=Why groupware applications fail: problems in design and evaluation. | last=Grudin | first=Jonathan | journal=Office: Technology and People | volume=4 | issue=3 | year=1989 | pages= 245-264 ] [ cite book | chapter=Sharing Expertise: The Next Step for Knowledge Management | title=Social Capital and Information Technology | last=Ackerman, Mark S. | coauthors=Christine Halverson | editor=Volker Wulf; Marlene Huysman | year=2003 | publisher=MIT Press | location=Cambridge, Mass., USA | quote=Grudin [1989] framed what is sometimes called the Grudin paradox: What may be in themanagers’ best interests may not be in the ordinary users’ interests. ] cite web | url=http://www.sigchi.org/documents/awards/awards-2004.html | accessdate=2008-06-28 | title=SIGCHI 2004 Awards | publisher=SIGCHI | year=2004 ]

Prior to working at Microsoft Research, Grudin was a Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine from 1991 to 1998. cite web | url=http://research.microsoft.com/~jgrudin/past/cv/cv.html | accessdate=2008-07-08 | title = Complete Cirriculum Vitae ] His career has spanned numerous institutions. He worked Wang Laboratories as a Computer Programmer (1974-1975 and 1983-1986) . He was a Visiting Scientist in the Psychology and Artificial Intelligence Laboratories at MIT (1976-1979) and then as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Meidcal Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit (now known as the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (1982-1983)). He spent from 1986-1989 at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation before taking a series of faculty positions (including visiting professorships) at Aarhus University (1989-1991), the University of California, Irvine (1991-1998), Keio University (1995) and the University of Oslo (1997) ).

From 1997 to 2003, he was Editor-in-Chief of "ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction" (TOCHI), one of the most prestigious journals in the field of HCI. [ cite web | url=http://tochi.acm.org/editorial.shtml | accessdate=2008-06-28 | publisher=ACM SIGCHI | title=ACM TOCHI Editorial Board: Past Editors ] Grudin was inducted into the selective ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy in 2004. He holds a B.A. in mathematics and physics from Reed College (1972), a M.S. in mathematics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of California, San Diego (1981), where he was advised by Donald Norman. [ cite web | url=http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/lectures.php?lecture=2006Feb6 | date=2006-02-06 | accessdate=2008-06-28 | publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | title=Distinguished Lecturer Series: Jonathan Grudin | year=2006 ]

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External links

* [http://research.microsoft.com/~jgrudin/ Grudin's home page]