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A conference followed by a workshop hosting:
Prof. Ronald Rice and Prof. Noshir Contractor
Prof. Noshir Contractor
Professor Noshir Contractor is a Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, Department of Psychology, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Research Affiliate of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Co-Director of the Age of Networks Initiative at the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research program, funded continuously for the past decade by major grants from the S. National Science Foundation, is investigating factors that lead to formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked knowledge networks in 21st century organizational forms. Professor Contractor has published or presented over 250 research papers dealing with communication. His book titled “Theories of Communication Networks” (co-authored with Professor Peter Monge and published by Oxford University Press) received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association. He is the lead developer of IKNOW (Inquiring Knowledge Networks On the Web), a community-ware web-based software (http://iknow.spcomm.uiuc.edu) and Blanche, a software program to simulate the dynamics of social networks. His papers have received Top Paper awards from the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association. In 2000 he was awarded the Outstanding Member Award by the Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association. He has served on the editorial boards of Human Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, Organization Science, and the World Wide Web Electronic Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Additionally he has consulted with Boeing, Charles Schwab, Fiat, Illinois Power, McKinsey Management Consulting, Merrill Lynch, Michigan Consolidated, National Cancer Institute, Paramount Pictures, Procter & Gamble, the Utah Transit Authority, and Vodafone. Professor Contractor has also developed virtual international courses, and conducted workshops on the management of knowledge networks in China, Finland, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. |