{"55011":{"#nid":"55011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Grinter to Receive UC-Irvine Alumni Honor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Beki Grinter of Interactive Computing, a two-time alumnus of the University of California-Irvine, will receive a Distinguished Alumni award from the university\u0027s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences in a ceremony to be held May 13 in Irvine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrinter earned her master\u0027s in information and computer science from UC-Irvine in 1994 and her Ph.D. in 1996. Under the guidance of professors Jonathan Grudin, John King and Rob Kling, Grinter focused on the coordination challenges in software development early in her career. Today, her research lies at the intersection of several different research communities, including computer-supported cooperative work, human computer interaction (HCI), sociology, software engineering and ubiquitous computing. Grinter directs the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/gvu\/wpl\/Work2Play.html\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EWork2Play\u003C\/a\u003E lab in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of her best-known publications, \u0022Instant Messaging in Teen Life\u0022, was reported in 2006 as one of the year\u0027s 15 most-downloaded papers on the ACM Digital Library. Her work is highly referenced by other experts in the field and has been highlighted numerous times by the media such as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, CNN International, Discovery Channel, ComputerWorld and Health Magazine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cBeki\u2019s constant search for answers to the questions surrounding the use, adoption and benefit of technology contributes to improved understanding of design needs and implications,\u201d said Brenda Richardson, founding dean of the Bren School. \u201cHer research on the effect of certain technologies on people \u2013 whether the single user at home, or group users collaborating at the workplace \u2013 and the social impact of technologies like instant messaging, is continuously impacting the digital landscape.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBeki Grinter (IC), a two-time\nalumnus of the University of California-Irvine, will receive a\nDistinguished Alumni award from the university\u0027s Donald Bren School of\nInformation and Computer Sciences. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2010-03-18 15:58:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:45","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}