Curriculum Vitae

Margaret S. Elliott

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EDUCATION

Ph.D: University of California, Irvine

Information and Computer Science (2000)

Committee: John L. King (Chair), Mark Ackerman, Ken Kraemer

Thesis Title: "Organizational Culture and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in a Common Information Space: Case Processing in the Criminal Courts"

M.S.: University of California, Irvine (1993)

Information and Computer Science

M.S.: Villanova University (1979)

Computer Science

M.S.: West Chester University (1976)

Education

B.S.: Millersville University (1971)

Elementary Education

WORK EXPERIENCE

2000-present Research Associate, Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine.

1997-1999 Primary Investigator, Grant from State Justice Institute to study the Los Angeles County Superior Courts' Use of Technology, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, University of California, Irvine.

1993-1994 Primary Research Associate, AIME Project, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, University of California, Irvine.

1990-1992 Graduate Student Research Associate, Artificial Intelligence group, University of California, Irvine.

1985-1990 Principal Investigator for Artificial Intelligence research for Aerospace Industry, Northrop's Research and Technology Center, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA.

1983-1985 Software Development Manager, Rockwell International, Lakewood, CA.

1979-1983 Software Engineer, Aerospace and Consulting Firms.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Elliott, M. (2003). The Virtual Organizational Culture of a Free Software Development Community. Paper presented at the 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software, Portland, Oregon.

Elliott, M. (2000). Organizational Culture and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in a Common Information Space: Case Processing in the Criminal Courts. Unpublished Dissertation. Irvine: University of California, Irvine.

Elliott, M. (1999). Final Report on Case Management Evaluation SJI-98-T-007 . Irvine, CA: Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.

Elliott, M. (1997). Moving from Paper-based to Digital Documents: Case Study of Public Defenders Using Case Management and Legal Research Tools. Paper presented at the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii.

Elliott, M. (1995). Empirical Study of Video Conferencing on the Mbone. In Proceedings of 1995 Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Tokai University at Honolulu, March 31- April 2.

Elliott, M. (1995). National Information Infrastructure Research at University of California, Irvine. Technical Report 9-22, June 8.

Elliott, M. (1994). Computer-assisted Fault Tree Construction Using a Knowledge-based Approach. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 43(1), 112-120.

Elliott, M. (1990). Knowledge-based systems for reliability analysis. In 1990 Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Los Angeles, CA., January 22-25.

Elliott, M. (1989). Knowledge-based systems for reliability analysis in concurrent design. In Proceedings IJCAI-89 Concurrent Engineering Design Workshop, IJCAI-89, Detroit, Michigan, August.

Elliott, M., & King, J. (1996). From OJ to OK: Lessons from the Use of Emergent CSCW Technologies in California Criminal Courts. (Working Paper). Irvine, CA: Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.

Elliott, M., & Kling, R. (1996 ). Organizational Usability of digital libraries in the courts. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii.

Elliott, M., & Kling, R. (1997). Organizational Usability of digital libraries: Case study of legal research in civil and criminal courts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(11), (1023-1035).

Elliott, M., & Scacchi, W. (2003a). Free Software: A Case Study of Software Development in A Virtual Organizational Culture. (Working Paper). Irvine, CA: Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine.

Elliott, M., & Scacchi, W. (2003b). Conflict Management in an Occupational Community for Free Software Development. Submitted to GROUP'03 International Conference on Supporting Group Work.

Elliott, M., & Scacchi, W. (2004). Free Software Development: Cooperation and Conflict in a Virtual Organizational Culture. In S. Koch (Ed.), Free/Open Source Software Development : Idea Press.

Kling, R. & Elliott, M. (1994). Digital Library Design for Usability. In Schnase, J., Leggett, J., Furuta, R. K., and Metcalfe, T. (Eds.). In Proceedings Digital Libraries '94 Conference. College Station, Texas, June.

O'Rorke, P., El Fattah, Y., and Elliott, M. (1993a). Explaining and Generalizaing Diagnostic Decisions. In P. E. Utgoff (Ed.), Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference, Amherst, MA: Morgan Kaufman.

O'Rorke, P., El Fattah, Y., and Elliott, M. (1993b). Explanation-based Learning for Qualitative Decision-making. In N. Piera-Carrete (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third IMACS International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies, Barcelona, Spain.

INVITED TALKS

May 3, 2003. Talk on "Virtual Organizational Culture of a Free Software Development Community", 3^rd IEE Open Source Workshop, Portland, Oregon.

SPECIAL AWARDS, HONORS, AND OTHER INFORMATION

1984 Awarded Engineer of the Month for exemplary work on B-1B program by Rockwell International in 1984.

1990-1991 Awarded Graduate and Professional Opportunity Program Fellowship by Univeristy of California, Irvine.

1991-1992 Awarded Fisher Fees Fellowship by University of California, Irvine.

1992-1993 Awarded Graduate and Professional Opportunity Program Fellowship by University of California, Irvine.

1997 Nominated for Best Paper in the Digital Library section of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1997.

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Reliability Engineering, HICSS '97.