Jonathan Grudin

Who is Jonathan Grudin?

Jonathan Grudin is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Grudin is a pioneer of the field of CSCW and one of its most prolific contributors. His collaboration distance to other HCI researchers has been described by the Grudin number, similar to the Erdős number in mathematics. Grudin is also well known for the Grudin Paradox or Grudin Problem, which states basically with respect to the design of collaborative software for organizational settings, "What may be in the managers' best interests may not be in the ordinary users' interests." 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 spanned numerous institutions. He worked at Wang Laboratories as a Computer Programmer . He was a Visiting Scientist in the Psychology and Artificial Intelligence Laboratories at MIT and then a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit.