John Seely Brown
As part of the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Speakers series, the Bren School hosted John Seely Brown, visiting scholar at the Annenberg Center for Communication,
University of Southern California and former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).A short bio of Brown is available at the bottom of the page.
The speech Brown gave during his visit to UCI, titled Innovating Innovation, has been made available as a downloadable mp3 that can be played either on your computer or an mp3 player like Apple's iPod.
To save the file to your computer either right-click the link and select 'Save Target As' on the PC or if on an Apple, control-click the link and select 'Save Link As'.
» Innovating Innovation (52 minutes @ 5.98 MB) » Power Point slides from the presentation (PDF, 1.13MB) ABOUT JOHN SEELY BROWN
John Seely Brown, a former assistant professor in the then Department of Computer Science at UC Irvine from 1969 to 1973, is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and the former chief scientist at Xerox Corporation and the former director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a position he held for nearly two decades.
While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, ethnographic studies of the workscape, and nano technology. He was also a co-founder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL).
He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and co-authored The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000), a book that has been translated into 9 languages.
He most recently co-authored the book The Only Sustainable Edge - about new forms of collaborative innovation.
Brown received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in mathematics and physics and a PhD from University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences.
In addition to honorary degrees from Brown University, the University of Michigan, Claremont Graduate University, and London School of Business, Brown was inducted into the Industry Hall of Fame in 2004.
For additional information on Brown please visit his web page.
