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Subject: Steve Borgatti gets an Award for Outstanding Teaching and
Computer Application (fwd)


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I am pleased to tell socnetters that former INSNA president Steve
Borgatti has won the 2005 Outstanding Computer or Teaching Application
Award from the American Sociological Association's Communications and
Information Technologies section.

I am sure that every INSNA member -- and UCINet and Anthropac user --
will appreciate how much Steve deserves this award. For the programs and
for the UCINet listserve.

Details below.

 Barry
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  Barry Wellman         Professor of Sociology        NetLab Director
  wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

  Centre for Urban & Community Studies          University of Toronto
  455 Spadina Avenue    Toronto Canada M5S 2G8    fax:+1-416-978-7162
             To network is to live; to live is to network
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:59:06 -0400
From: Barry Wellman <[log in to unmask]>
To: communication and information technology section asa
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Cc: nalini kotamraju <[log in to unmask]>, Keith Hampton
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     "cits exec, 2004-2005 -- David Stark" <[log in to unmask]>,
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     James Witte <[log in to unmask]>, Keith Hampton <[log in to unmask]>,
     Lori Kendall <[log in to unmask]>,
     marc smith <[log in to unmask]>, Pablo Boczkowski
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     steve sawyer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CITS Award for Outstanding Teaching and Computer Application


The official title of the CITS Award is for an Outstanding Contribution
for a Teaching or Computer Application. I am pleased to announce that
this year's winner -- section member Stephen P. Borgatti of Boston
College -- wins it for Both Teaching and Computer Applications. The
official announcement on our website says that the award is for "the
development of a computing application or applications that provides an
outstanding contribution for the advancement of sociological theory or
practice; and/or for developments that enhance instruction in
sociology."

What hath Steve wrought to get this high honor? The computer
applications alone are worthy of honor. Steve has been working on UCINet
since he was a graduate student at Cal-Irvine (PhD 1989 with Linton
Freeman), and has led the way to it becoming the dominant way for people
to do social network analyses. With Steve as a leading co-author of
UCINet, SNA has become a relatively user-friendly way, opening the once
arcane field to a wide array of researchers. He's always upgrading it.
The current version is 6.86.

There's more! This isn't the only computing application that Steve has
developed. Anthropac has provided a wide array of utilities for
qualitative analysis in the social sciences: pile sorts and the like.

You can learn more about both of these programs at
http://www.analytictech.com/

As I said, the award is for a teaching application too. Every day Steve
actively runs a UCINet list-serve. If you go to the archived version at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ucinet, you'll see that it's mostly Q&A
with Steve. The list-serve is a veritable tutorial on how to run UCINet
and think about social networks. With Steve as the most responsive
compere. And when a user discovers a bug or a gap in the program,
Steve's prompt response is "OK, I'll fix that. Thanks." And he does!

App writing is not conducive to paper writing. It's a time sink. Yet
Steve has published more than 70 papers, on social networks, knowledge
management, culture and cognition, and mathematical approaches to
organizational theory. He's a senior editor of Organizational Science
and president-emeritus of INSNA.

This year's Computer/Teaching App Committee has been Marc Smith and
Barry Wellman.
_____________________________________________________________________

  Barry Wellman         Professor of Sociology        NetLab Director
  wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

  Centre for Urban & Community Studies          University of Toronto
  455 Spadina Avenue    Toronto Canada M5S 2G8    fax:+1-416-978-7162
             To network is to live; to live is to network
_____________________________________________________________________

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