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Irene Greif IBM Fellow Director, Collaborative User Experience research and IBM Center for Social Business Contact: igreif@us.ibm.com Irene Greif, IBM Fellow, heads the Cambridge, MA-based Collaborative User Experience Group (CUE), a team of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) researchers within IBM Research. She is also the director of the IBM Center for Social Business, a global effort to focus CSCW and Computer-Human Interaction research on the growing opportunities in social business. The Center has emphasized research based on large scale deployments of new technologies, providing test beds for studies of adoption rates and impact of social media on organizations. The group is currently developing "social solutions" that put horizontal social software to use in vertical settings to tackle specific business problems. Irene is a former faculty member of Computer Science at University of Washington and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She headed a research group in the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science that developed shared calendar, co-authoring, and real-time collaboration systems. She is a fellow of both the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Irene was inducted into the Women In Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame in 2000 and awarded the Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology Leadership award in 2008. In 2010, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Irene joined Lotus Development Corporation in 1987, formed Lotus Research in 1992, and merged that group into the IBM Research Division in 2000. Recent product innovations from her group include the core features now shipping in IBM Connections: social bookmarking, file sharing, profiles, and business activities, as well as a number of experiments in visualization, with Many Eyes (www-958.ibm.com) and Many Bills (http://manybills.researchlabs.ibm.com) as examples that are available on the web. Irene received her S.B. in Mathematics, her S.M. and her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, all from MIT. Publications: Greif, I (Ed.) Special Issue of IBM Systems Journal on Business Collaboration, Vol. 45, No. 4. 2006. Communication Trends and the On-Demand Organization: A Lotus Workplace White Paper, 2003. Greif, I (Ed.). Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings. Morgan Kaufman Press, 1988.