Kevin Crowston
Professor of Information Studies,
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
- Office: Hinds Hall 348, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA
- Phone: +1 (315) 464-0272
- Office FAX: +1 (315) 443-5806
- e-FAX: +1 (815) 550-2155
- E-Mail: crowston@syr.edu (PGP key available)
- On Academia.edu
- Researcher-ID: C-6068-2008
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Kevin Crowston is a Professor of Information Studies at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (aka the iSchool). 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 research examines new ways of organizing made possible by the use of information technology. He approaches this 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 For more information, please consult his vitae and now quite out-of-date Fall 2005 research statement (both in PDF). Specific domains of interest include free/libre open source software development projects and citizen science projects.
He is currently a PI on 2 NSF sponsored projects: NSF SOCS Grant 09-68470 for "SOCS: Socially intelligent computing to support citizen science" (see here for details) and NSF SOCS Grant 11-11107 for "SOCS: Socially intelligent computing for coding of qualitative data" (see here for details).
