 John Seely Brown is currently a visiting scholar at USC and UCI. Prior to this, he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) - a position he held for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, ethnographic studies of the workscape, and nano technology. He was also a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include the impact of globalization on business, the management of radical innovation, digital culture, ubiquitous computing, and organizational and individual learning.
John, or JSB as he is often called, is a member of the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS, and a Trustee of Brown University and the MacArthur Foundation. He serves on numerous public boards (Amazon, Corning, Varian Medical Systems, and Polycom) and private boards of directors. JSB has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review's 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, "Research that Reinvents the Corporation," and again in 2002 for his article "Your Next IT Strategy.” In 2004 he was inducted into the Industry Hall of Fame. With Paul Duguid, JSB co-authored the acclaimed book, “The Social Life of Information” (HBS Press, 2000), that has been translated into nine languages with a second addition in April 2002. His most recent book with John Hagel, “The Only Sustainable Edge,” is about new forms of collaborative innovation. It also provides a novel framework for understanding what is really happening in off-shoring in India and China, and how each are inventing powerful new ways to innovate, learn, and accelerate capability building. JSB received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in mathematics and physics, and a PhD from University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences. Blog http://www.johnseelybrown.com/ |
