Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks (www.ickn.org). He was Mercator Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne, and is a lecturer at Helsinki University of Technology. Earlier, Peter was a Senior Research Fellow at the Dartmouth Tuck Center for Digital Strategies and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich in 1989.

Peter is equally at home in the commercial world. 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 the Section Leader for Software Engineering at Union Bank of Switzerland. His latest books, Swarm Creativity - Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks , and Coolhunting - Chasing DownThe Next Big Thing (together with Scott Cooper) were published in 2006 by Oxford University Press and spring 2007 by AMACOM, respectively. He blogs about Swarm Creativity.

Selected Publications

Gloor, P. Paasvaara, M. Schoder, D. Willems, P. Finding Collaborative Innovation Networks Through Correlating Performance With Social Network Structure. Journal of Production Research, Taylor and Francis, April 2007

Raz, O. Gloor, P. Size Really Matters - New Insights for Startup's Survival, Management Science, February 2007

Gloor, P. Cooper, S. Coolhunting - Chasing Down The Next Big Thing AMACOM, NY, spring 2007

Kidane, Y. Gloor, P. Correlating temporal communication patterns of the Eclipse open source community with performance and creativity, Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory. Volume 13, Issue 1 (March 2007), ISSN:1381-298X, 17 - 27, 2007

Gloor, P. Paasviaara, M. Schoder, D. Willems, P. Correlating Performance with Social Network Structure Through Teaching Social Network Analysis. Proc. Pro-Ve 06, 7th IFIP Conference on Working Enterprises, Sep. 25-27, Helsinki, 2006.

Zilli, A. Grippa, F. Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. One in Four Is Enough - Strategies for Selecting Ego Mailboxes for a Group Network View. Proc. European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS '06, Sept. 25-29, Oxford UK, 2006

Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. Analyzing Actors and Their Discussion Topics by Semantic Social Network Analysis, Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation IV06, London, 5-7 July 2006.

Gloor, P. Capturing Team Dynamics Through Temporal Social Surfaces, Proceedings of 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation IV05, London, 6-8 July 2005.

Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Zhao, Y. Dynes, S. Temporal Visualization and Analysis of Social Networks, 2004, NAACSOS Conference, June 27 - 29, Pittsburgh PA, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science

Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Zhao, Y. Dynes,S. Schrott, G. Trying to Correlate Temporal Communication Patterns of Online Communities with Innovation, 2004, Presentation at Sunbelt, Social Networks Analysis Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 13-16.

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.

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. Collaborative Knowledge Networks. eJETA electronic Journal on E-Business Technologies and Applications, Vol 1, No 2, 2002. (www.ejeta.org)

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. (Also available on the Web at http://www.ickn.org/elements/index.htm)

Matthews, J. Gloor, P. Makedon, F. VideoScheme: A Programmable Video Editing System for Automation and Media Recognition. Proceedings ACM Multimedia 93 , Anaheim CA, 1993.

Gloor, P. CYBERMAP -- yet another way of navigating in hyperspace. In Proceedings of ACM Hypertext '91 , San Antonio, Texas, Dec 15-18, 1991.

Gloor, P. Dynes, S. Lee, I. Animated Algorithms, MIT Press, 1993.