Dr. Peter A. Gloor

Peter A. Gloor was Visiting Professor ("DFG-Mercator Gastprofessur") for the fall term 2005/06, teaching the course "Collaborative Innovation Networks - Optimizing Online Behavior".  He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Coordination Science at MIT's Sloan School of Management. At MIT, Peter leads a project researching Collaborative Innovation Networks (http://www.ickn.org). He is also a Research Fellow at the Dartmouth Tuck Center for Digital Strategies and was an adjunct faculty at the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth. He was a Post-Doc at the MIT Lab for Computer Science 1990-1993, and got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich in 1989. Peter has written 5 books and over thirty scholarly papers. His latest book "Swarm Creativity - Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks" will appear this fall at Oxford University Press (http://www.swarmcreativity.net). Peter has a unique combination of academic and industry experience. Until the end of 2002, Peter was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading its E-Business practice for Europe. Before that, he was a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and before that the Section Leader for Software Engineering at Union Bank of Switzerland. He has also been CEO of Internet start-up CyberMap Systems and is a frequent speaker at international business and academic conferences and seminars.
As a partner with Deloitte and PwC, and a senior manager at UBS Peter has led large Internet Strategy, Knowledge Management, and IT Systems integration projects for clients such as UBS, Zurich, Generali, Banca del Gottardo, Novartis, Roche, Norsk Hydro, TUI, DaimlerChrysler, Caterpillar, TRW, Lafarge, Aventis, Holcim, United Nations, and the Swiss Government.

• Gloor, P. Capturing Team Dynamics Through Temporal Social Surfaces, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV05, London, 6-8 July 2005.
• Kidane, Y. Gloor, P. Correlating Temporal Communication Patterns of the Eclipse Open Source Community with Performance and Creativity, NAACSOS Conference, June 26 - 28, Notre Dame IN, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, 2005 (Best Paper Award).
• Gloor, P. Borrowing from Computer Music to Describe Temporal Aspects of Social Networks, Abstract for Sunbelt 2005, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, Feb 16-20, 2005.
• Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. TeCFlow - A Temporal Communication Flow Visualizer for Social Networks Analysis, ACM CSCW Workshop on Social Networks. ACM CSCW Conference, Chicago, Nov. 6. 2004.
• Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Zhao, Y. Dynes, S. Temporal Visualization and Analysis of Social Networks, NAACSOS Conference, June 27 - 29, Pittsburgh PA, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, 2004.
• Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Zhao, Y. Dynes,S. Schrott, G. Trying to Correlate Temporal Communication Patterns of Online Communities with Innovation, Presentation at Sunbelt, Social Networks Analysis Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 13-16, 2004.
• Gloor, P. Heckman, C. Makedon, F. Ethical Issues in Virtual Communities of Innovation. Ethicomp 2004, the 7th International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communcation Technologies, Syros, Greece, April 14-16. 2004
• Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Dynes, S. Zhao, Y. Visualization of Communication Patterns in Collaborative Innovation Networks: Analysis of some W3C working groups. ACM CKIM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Nov 3-8, 2003.
• Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Dynes, S. Zhao, Y. Visualization of Interaction Patterns in Collaborative Knowledge Networks for Medical Applications, Proc. HCII, Crete, June 25-27, 2003.
• Gloor, P. Collaborative Knowledge Networks. eJETA electronic Journal on E-Business Technologies and Applications, Vol 1, No 3, 2002. www.ejeta.org

• Gloor, P. SwarmCreativity - Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks, to appear fall 2005 at Oxford University Press
• Gloor, P. Making the e-Business Transformation: Sharing Knowledge in the e-Business Company, Springer, London, 2000.
• Gloor, P. Elements of Hypermedia Design: Techniques for Navigation and Visualization in Cyberspace. Birkhäuser, Cambridge MA, 1997.