Abbe Mowshowitz

Who is Abbe Mowshowitz?

Abbe Mowshowitz, is an American academic, a professor of computer science at the City College of New York and a member of the Doctoral Faculty in Computer Science at The City University of New York who works in the areas of the organization, management, and economics of information systems; social and policy implications of information technology; network science; and graph theory. He is known in particular for his work on virtual organization, a concept he introduced in the 1970s; on information commodities; on the social implications of computing; and on the complexity of graphs and networks.

Before joining the faculty at The City College of New York, Mowshowitz was a faculty member at the University of Toronto; the University of British Columbia; and was research director in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In addition, he was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Management, Delft, The Netherlands; held the Tinbergen Chair in the Graduate School of Management at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; was a professor in the Department of Social Science Informatics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and was the CeTim professor of Technology Innovation Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.