Jonathan Grudin
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| name = Jonathan Grudin
| birth_date = December 31, 1949
| birth_place = Boulder, Colorado
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| nationality = American
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| field = Human-computer interaction
Computer-supported cooperative work
| work_institution = Microsoft Research
University of Washington Information School
University of California, Irvine
Wang Laboratories
Aarhus University
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
| alma_mater = Reed College
Purdue University
University of California, San Diego
| doctoral_advisor = Donald Norman
| doctoral_students = Rebecca Grinter
Leysia Palen
| known_for = Grudin number
Grudin Paradox
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| prizes = Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI CHI Academy
Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
[https://cscw.acm.org/2014/lasting_impact_award.html CSCW Lasting Impact Award]
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Jonathan Grudin (born December 31, 1949) was a researcher at Microsoft from 1998 to 2022 and is affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School working in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Grudin is a pioneer of the field of computer-supported cooperative work 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. |author2=Thomas A. Finholt |author3=Jeremy P. Birnholtz |author4=Dheeraj Motwani |author5=Swapnaa Jayaraman | pages=582–591 | publisher=ACM Press | doi=10.1145/1031607.1031707 }} His collaboration distance to other researchers of human-computer interactions has been described by the "Grudin number". Grudin is also well known for the "Grudin Paradox" or "Grudin Problem", which states basically with respect to the design of collaborative software for organizational settings, "What may be in the managers' best interests may not be in the interests of individual contributors, and therefore not used."{{ 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. |author2=Christine Halverson | editor1-last=Wulf|editor1-first=Volker|editor2-last=Huysman|editor2-first=Marlene | year=2003 | publisher=MIT Press | location=Cambridge, Mass., USA | quote=Grudin [1989] framed what is sometimes called the Grudin paradox: What may be in the managers’ best interests may not be in the ordinary users’ interests. }}{{cite web | url=http://www.sigchi.org/about/awards/awards-2004.html/ | accessdate=2008-06-28 | title=SIGCHI 2004 Awards | publisher=SIGCHI | year=2004 | archive-date=2009-09-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915201423/http://www.sigchi.org/about/awards/awards-2004.html/ | url-status=dead }} He was awarded the inaugural CSCW Lasting Impact Award in 2014 on the basis of this work. He has also written about the publication culture and history of human-computer interactions.
Career
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://www.jonathangrudin.com/about-jonathan/curriculum-vitae/| accessdate=2017-01-06 | title = Curriculum Vitae }} His career has spanned numerous institutions. He worked at Wang Laboratories as a software engineer (1974–1975 and 1983–1986). He was a visiting scientist in the Psychology and Artificial Intelligence Laboratories at MIT (1976–1979) and a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit (now known as the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (1982–1983)). From 1986 to 1989 he worked at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, then took 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, one of the most prestigious journals in the field of human-computer interaction.{{ cite web | url=http://tochi.acm.org/editorial.shtml | accessdate=2008-06-28 | publisher=Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI | title=ACM TOCHI Editorial Board: Past Editors }} Grudin was inducted into the selective Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI CHI Academy in 2004. In 2012, he was made an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow for "contributions to human computer interaction with an emphasis on computer supported cooperative work."{{cite web | url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3028016&srt=all | title=ACM Fellows - Jonathan Grudin | publisher=Association for Computing Machinery | work=ACM Fellows | year=2012 | accessdate=December 11, 2012}} 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.
His book From Tool to Partner, The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction was published in 2017.
References
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External links
- [http://jonathangrudin.com/ Grudin's home page]
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Category:Purdue University alumni
Category:University of California, San Diego alumni
Category:University of California, Irvine faculty
Category:Human–computer interaction researchers
Category:American computer scientists
Category:2012 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery