Kevin Crowston
Kevin Crowston is a Professor of Information Studies at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (aka the iSchool). Prior to moving to Syracuse, he taught for five years at the University of Michigan Business School. He received his A.B. (1984) in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research interests focus on new ways of organizing made possible by the use of information technology. This work approaches the issue in several ways: empirical studies of coordination-intensive processes in human organizations (especially virtual organization); theoretical characterizations of coordination problems and alternative methods for managing them; and design and empirical evaluation of systems to support people working together. For more information, please consult his vitae and now out-of-date Fall 2005 research statement (both in PDF). Crowston has published articles and book chapters in the area of information technology and new organizational forms. His Ph.D. dissertation, Towards a Coordination Cookbook: Recipes for Multi-agent Action (10 MB, PDF), won the International Centre for Information Technology (ICIT) Thesis Prize for best dissertation in Information Systems in 1991 and was a runner-up for the International Conference on Information Systems thesis prize in 1992. He is currently a PI on two NSF sponsored program. The first is HSD 05-27457, "DHB: Investigating the Dynamics of Free/Libre Open Source Software Development Teams" (with Robert Heckman and Elizabeth Liddy). The second is NSF CNS Grant 07-08437 "Collaborative Research: CRI: CRD: Data and analysis archive for research on Free and Open Source Software and its development" (with Megan Conklin, Elon University). You can find the project home page for these two projects here. A third recently completed grant is NSF IIS Grant 04-14482, "How can document-genre metadata improve information-access for large digital collections?" (with Barbara Kwasnik). You can see this project's home page here. Prior to these grants, he was a co-principal investigator on an NSF grant for "Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes" and for "A Multi-Method Study of the Use of Information Technology in the Real-Estate Industry" (see this project's home page here). Kevin Crowston was a founding member of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and the University of Michigan Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Auckland, Department of Management Science and Information Systems, a researcher at the Centre for Technology and Innovation Management at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, a Shidler Visiting Fellow at the University of Hawai'i Shidler College of Business and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Work, Technology and Organizations, Stanford University. Professor Crowston is the Secretary and Webmaster for IFIP Working Group 8.2.
Thursday, March 19, 2009In fall 2009, I will be teaching IST 352, Information Analysis of Organizational Systems (aka Systems Analysis) and IST 552, Information Systems Analysis: Concepts and Practice. Thursday, March 12, 2009Carsten Østerlund and I will be running a HICSS mini-track on Documenting Work and Working Documents. Please see the call for papers. Felipe Ortega, Vandana Singh and I will be running a HICSS mini-track on Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents and Open Communities. Please see the call for papers. The firm deadline for submissions for both mini-tracks is 15 June 2010. Papers must be submitted on the HICSS submission website; please see [1] for details. Saturday, December 13, 2008Today at the business meeting of the IFIP Working Group 8.2 on Information Systems and Organizations, I was elected the secretary of the group. This marks the start of a nine (yes, 9!) year commitment--3 years each as secretary, vice chair and chair of the group. Fortunately, it's a great group--you can read more about them on their website. Monday, November 17, 2008In Spring 2009, I will be teaching IST 830, the doctoral seminar in Information Systems, and IST 422/600, Acquiring, Procuring and Financing Information Technology. The later is an on-line only course, with a mix of masters and advanced undergraduates, which is always exciting. Monday, June 16, 2008I'm in Europe for a month for a number of conferences:
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