In Brief

The following newspaper articles were written based on work done by Kenneth Kraemer and Jason Dedrick:

• "An iPod Has Global Value. Ask the (Many) Countries That Make It," by Hal R. Varian, The New York Times, June 28, 2007.
• "UCI Explores the Multination iPod" by Colin Stewart, OC Register,
  June, 29, 2007
• "Who Really Makes the iPod" by Hal R. Varian, International Herald Tribune, June 28, 2007 (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/28/technology/ipod.php)
• "Who Benefits Most from the iPod being Produced Mostly Overseas? Apple and It's Knowledge Workers," Manufacturing and Technology News, 14(14), July 31, 2007.
  
  Their i-Pod project was also cited in The Economist, “Leapfrogging or Piggybacking,” November 8, 2007.

The iPod project continues to have an impact on policy and practice:

• The U.S. Council on Competitiveness is using Kraemer’s and Dedrick’s methodology for their independent analyses of product innovations.
• Senator Jim DiMint’s staff incorporated data and findings from the iPod report in Congressional Hearings on Trade Relations with China.

Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer received a $150,000 grant from the Sloan Foundation to expand their research concerning “Who Captures the Value in the iPod and the notebook PC?” The new directions will include studying the distribution of employment in global production networks, extending the financial valuation model, and applying the methodology to other product categories.

Tom Wright, Assistant Deputy Minister, Industry Sector, Canada, opened the "Global Value Chains Conference" citing Ken Kraemer’s and Jason Dedrick’s iPod study. He used the study as an example of how trade statistics alone provide a distorted picture of the gains to globalization. The conference was at the Ottawa Congress Center on September 25-26, 2007.

Bonnie Nardi spent a month in China studying World of Warcraft.

Alfred Kobsa has been elected to the 15-member Editorial Board of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). From its inception as a proceedings series in 1993, LNCS has evolved into an imprint of 16 sub-series and 7 journals covering the entire field of Computer Science. All 150,000 articles from the 5,000 volumes published to date are available online and receive about 2 million worldwide downloads per year. Professor Kobsa will specifically oversee the areas of Information Systems and Applications including Human-Computer Interaction.

Alfred Kobsa was a recipient of the 2007 Google Research Award. The $50,000 will support his research on compliance with disparate privacy laws and user privacy preferences.

Gloria Mark was also a recipient of the 2007 Google Research Award. The $50,000 will support her research on managing multi-tasking and Interruptions.

Vijay Gurbaxani has been named to a distinguished Blue Ribbon Task Force to develop actionable recommendations for the economic sustainability of preservation of and persistent access to digital information for future generations.

Walt Scacchi has received several new research grants.

• National Science Foundation, ($30,000--12 months), Workshop to Establish National and International Infrastructures for Multidisciplinary Empirical Science of Free/Open Source Software
• Naval Postgraduate School, ($95,000--12 months), Governance Practices and Processes in Open Source Software Development Projects
• Naval Postgraduate School, ($100,000--12 months), Investigating the Acquisition and Requirements for Software Systems that Rely on Open Architecture and Open Source Software.
  
  He presented “Enabling Exponential Innovation via Open Source Software Development” at the IAB meeting last May.

Congratulations to Pei-Fang Hsu and her husband on their new baby girl, Catherine. Catherine was born on September 25 at the UCI hospital. She weighed 6 lb 4 oz, and mom and baby are doing great. The family moved to Taiwan. Again, congratulations to the proud parents!

Professor Namchul Shin was a visiting researcher at CRITO from Pace University, School of Computer Science and Information Systems. He was here for six months to collaborate on research relating to globalization and e-commerce. He graduated from the Merage School of Business in 1997. Professor Shin’s research interests are on IT business value, organizational and strategic impacts, e-commerce and IT innovation.

Lauren Louie is a sociology undergraduate student who joined the CRITO family in September. She is working with Alladi Venkatesh and Nivein Behairy on a qualitative research project that will examine the social networks of college students. Lauren is a Regents Scholar and active in the American Marketing Association. Lauren will be with us until she graduates in June 2008.

Veronica Portal joined the CRITO team as our new Financial Assistant. She will provide support for CRITO's daily business functions. Her responsibilities include purchasing, accounting, disbursements, payroll/personnel inputting, time reporting, as well as processing travel reimbursements. Veronica graduated from UC Riverside, with a bachelors degree in Business Administration. We are excited that she has chosen to begin her career at CRITO. Please join us in extending her a warm welcome.

Stella Ly has been promoted to Financial Analyst. Stella is currently working on her MBA while working full time. Congratulations Stella, and keep up the good work.

CRITO loses a colleague…It is with sadness that we announce that Paul Chwelos passed away in September. He was in a fatal automobile accident. Paul Chwelos was an assistant professor in MIS at Merage about seven to ten years ago, and then moved to University of British Columbia.