John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown is currently a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center at USC. Previously, he was the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a position he held for nearly two decades. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS and a Trustee of Brown University and the MacArthur Foundation. He serves on numerous public boards (Amazon, Corning, Varian Medical Systems and Polycom) and private boards of directors.
He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and has authored and co-authored several books. His most recent book with John Hagel, The Only Sustainable Edge, is about new forms of collaborative innovation. Brown received a BA from Brown University in 1962 in mathematics and physics and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1970 in computer and communication sciences. He also has honorary degrees in Science from Brown University and the University of Michigan, in Science and Economics from London Business School, and in Humane Letters from Claremont Graduate School.
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