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Kevin Crowston is a Distinguished Professor of Information Science at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. He received his A.B. (1984) in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently serving as Associate Dean for Research.
He is currently seeking PhD students interested in the impact on work design of systems with increased autonomy and capability.
Research Interests
Crowston's research examines new ways of organizing made possible by the use of information technology. He approaches this issue in several ways: empirical studies of coordination-intensive processes in human organizations (especially virtual organization); theoretical characterizations of coordination problems and alternative methods for managing them; and design and empirical evaluation of systems to support people working together. Specific domains of interest include free/libre open source software development projects, citizen science projects and research data management.
He is a co-PI on an NSF INSPIRE project: "INSPIRE: Teaming Citizen Science with Machine Learning to Deepen LIGO's View of the Cosmos" (15-47880) that has produced the Gravity Spy system. He is the former PI on NSF SOCS Grant 12-11071 for "Collaborative Research: Focusing Attention to Improve the Performance of Citizen Science Systems: Beautiful Images and Perceptive Observers" (see here for details). With colleagues, he will be leading a research coordination network aimed at developing a socio-technical perspective on work in the age of intelligent machines.
Keywords: virtual work; virtual organizations; free/libre/open source software development practices; citizen science; work design for work with autonomous systems
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Projects 2005 2022
Travel support for the Open Source Systems 2016 Doctoral Consortium
5/1/16 → 4/30/17
Project: Other project
Research Output 1986 2020
Teaching citizen scientists to categorize glitches using machine learning guided training
Jackson, C., Østerlund, C., Crowston, K., Harandi, M., Allen, S., Bahaadini, S., Coughlin, S., Kalogera, V., Katsaggelos, A., Larson, S., Rohani, N., Smith, J., Trouille, L. & Zevin, M., Apr 2020, In : Computers in Human Behavior. 105, 106198.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Learning systems
Volunteers
Teaching
Learning
Gravitation
Building an Apparatus: Refractive, Reflective, and Diffractive Readings of Trace Data
Oesterlund, C., Crowston, K. G. & Jackson, C. B., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of the Association of Information Systems. 45 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Refraction
Gravitation
Information systems
Diffraction
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Classifying the unknown: Discovering novel gravitational-wave detector glitches using similarity learning
Coughlin, S., Bahaadini, S., Rohani, N., Zevin, M., Patane, O., Harandi, M., Jackson, C., Noroozi, V., Allen, S., Areeda, J., Coughlin, M., Ruiz, P., Berry, C. P. L., Crowston, K. G., Katsaggelos, A. K., Lundgren, A., Oesterlund, C., Smith, J. R., Trouille, L. & Kalogera, V., Apr 15 2019, In : Physical Review D. 99, 8, 082002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
LIGO (observatory)
machine learning
classifying
gravitational waves
learning
Coordinating Advanced Crowd Work: Extending Citizen Science
Crowston, K., Mitchell, E. & Østerlund, C., Jan 1 2019, In : Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. 4, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Coordination in OSS 2.0: ANT Approach
You, S., Crowston, K., Saltz, J. & Hegde, Y., 2019, Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Vol. 52.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Open Access
Actor-network theory
Developer
Open source software
Software development process
Internal communication
Activities 2008 2017
Transactions on Social Computing (Journal)
Kevin Crowston (Editor in chief)2017 → …
Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity
The Hermeneutics of Trace Data: Building an Apparatus
Carsten Oesterlund (Speaker), Kevin G Crowston (Speaker), Corey Brian Jackson (Speaker)2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Situating Learning & Infrastructure: How to support different opportunities for learning in an online citizen science community?
Carsten Oesterlund (Speaker), Gabriel Mugar (Speaker), Corey Brian Jackson (Speaker), Kevin G Crowston (Speaker), Mahboobeh Harandi (Speaker)2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
Typologies of learning in open online collaborative communities
Carsten Oesterlund (Speaker), Gabriel Mugar (Speaker), Corey Brian Jackson (Speaker), Kevin G Crowston (Speaker)2016
Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities, OSS 2016
Kevin Crowston (Chair)2016
Activity: Attendance types › Participation in conference
Press and Media
DOCTORAL GRAD JAMES HOWISON G'09 WINS U.S. PECASE RESEARCH HONORS
12/9/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Syracuse U. Associate Dean wins top award honoring information research
7/16/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Association for Information Science & Technology: Crowston to Receive Research in Information Science Award
Kevin G Crowston & Caroline Haythornthwaite
7/15/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
CROWSTON TO RECEIVE RESEARCH IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AWARD
Kevin G Crowston & Caroline Haythornthwaite
7/15/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL AND DATA SCIENCE PLANS UN-CONFERENCE ON FUTURE OF WORK, AI
2/7/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Prizes
Best Published Social Informatics Paper Award
Kevin G Crowston (Recipient), Steve Sawyer (Recipient) & Rolf T. Wigand (Recipient), Oct 15 2016
Prize
International Federation for Information Processing Silver Core Award
Kevin G Crowston (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Honorary award
federation
information processing
working group
Lifetime Service Award, Academy of Management, OCIS Division
Kevin G Crowston (Recipient), Aug 13 2018
Prize: Honorary award
academy
management
community
leadership