John Seely Brown

Author: John Seely Brown

I'm a visiting scholar at USC and the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge.

In a previous life, I was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). I was deeply involved in the management of radical innovation and in the formation of corporate strategy and strategic positioning of Xerox as The Document Company.

Today, I'm Chief of Confusion, helping people ask the right questions, trying to make a difference through my work- speaking, writing, teaching.

I've also received a few honorary degrees along the way, and in 2004 I was inducted into the Industry Hall of Fame; I was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Publications

Publication period start: 1989
Number of co-authors: 20

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Richard R. Burton
3
Thomas W. Malone
4
Paul Duguid
10

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Thomas W. Malone
34
Bill Buxton
78
Ben Shneiderman
225

Publications

Brown, John Seely, Duguid, Paul (2000): Table of Contents. In First Monday, 5 (4) pp. . https://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_4/brown_contents.html

Brown, John Seely, Duguid, Paul (2000): Acknowledgments. In First Monday, 5 (4) pp. . https://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_4/brown_acknowledgments.html

Brown, John Seely, Duguid, Paul (2000): Introduction: Tunneling Ahead. In First Monday, 5 (4) pp. . https://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_4/brown_introduction.html

Brown, John Seely, Duguid, Paul (2000): Chapter One: Limits to Information. In First Monday, 5 (4) pp. . https://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_4/brown_chapter1.html

Brown, John Seely, Duguid, Paul (2000): Chapter Two: Agents and Angels. In First Monday, 5 (4) pp. . https://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_4/brown_chapter2.html

Brown, John Seely, Duguid, Paul (2000): Chapter Three: Home Alone. In First Monday, 5 (4) pp. . https://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_4/brown_chapter3.html

Brown, John Seely, Duguid, Paul, Dyson, Esther (1996): The Social Life of Documents. In First Monday, 1 (1) pp. . https://firstmonday.org/issues/issue1/documents/index.html

Brown, John Seely (1996): To Dream the Invisible Dream. In Communications of the ACM, 39 (8) pp. 30.

Brown, John Seely, Duguid, Paul (1994): Patrolling the Border: A Reply. In Human-Computer Interaction, 9 (1) pp. 137-149.

Brown, John Seely, Collins, Allan, Duguid, Paul (1989): Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. In Educational Researcher, 18 (1) pp. .

Greif, Irene, Brown, John Seely, Dyson, Esther, Kapor, Mitch, Malone, Thomas W. (1988): Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: Breakthroughs for User Acceptance. In: Soloway, Elliot, Frye, Douglas, Sheppard, Sylvia B. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 88 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 15-19, 1988, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 113-114.

Neches, Robert, Brown, John Seely, Malone, Thomas W., Sondheimer, Norman K., Williams, Mike (1987): Intelligence in interfaces. In: Graphics Interface 87 (CHI+GI 87) April 5-9, 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. pp. 267-269.

Thomas, John C., Brown, John Seely, Buxton, Bill, Curtis, Bill, Landauer, Thomas K., Malone, Thomas W., Shneiderman, Ben (1986): Human Computer Interaction in the Year 2000. In: Mantei, Marilyn, Orbeton, Peter (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 86 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 13-17, 1986, Boston, Massachusetts. pp. 253-255.

Greif, Irene, Brown, John Seely, Cashman, Paul M., Malone, Thomas W. (1985): Interfaces in Organizations: Supporting Group Work. In: Borman, Lorraine, Curtis, Bill (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 85 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 14-18, 1985, San Francisco, California. pp. 65.

Brown, John Seely, Newman, Susan E. (1985): Issues in Cognitive and Social Ergonomics: From Our House to Bauhaus. In Human-Computer Interaction, 1 (4) pp. 359-391.

Sleeman, D. H., Brown, John Seely (1979): Editorial: Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 11 (1) pp. 1-3.

Burton, Richard R., Brown, John Seely (1979): An Investigation of Computer Coaching for Informal Learning Activities. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 11 (1) pp. 5-24.

Brown, John Seely, Burton, Richard R. (1978): A Paradigmatic Example of an Artificially Intelligent Instructional System. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 10 (3) pp. 323-339.

Brown, John Seely, Burton, Richard R., Bell, Alan G. (1975): SOPHIE: A Step Toward Creating a Reactive Learning Environment. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 7 (5) pp. 675-696.

Brown, John Seely, Akeley, Kurt (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques , 2000, .

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