Interview with Jonathan Grudin on “computer-supported cooperative work and social computing”

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Jonathan GrudinMicrosoft ResearchOne Microsoft WayRedmond, WA 98052United Statesjgrudin@microsoft.comJonathan 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. He was awarded the inaugural CSCW Lasting Impact Award in 2014 on the basis of this work. 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. His career has also spanned numerous institutions. He worked at 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 a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit (now known as the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (1982-1983)