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Hearty Congratulations, Steve. YOU deserve it. You are doing a
great service to popularize network analysis.

All the best!

Prabir.


On Tue, 31 May 2005 Wolfe,Alvin wrote :
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>Congratulations, Steve. And Congratulations to Barry for helping
>Steve
>get this well-deserved award. --Alvin
>
>-----Original Message-----
> From: Social Networks Discussion Forum
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>Behalf Of Barry Wellman
>Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:02 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>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
>_____________________________________________________________________
>
> 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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>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:59:06 -0400
> From: Barry Wellman <[log in to unmask]>
>To: communication and information technology section asa
><[log in to unmask]>
>Cc: nalini kotamraju <[log in to unmask]>, Keith Hampton
><[log in to unmask]>,
> "cits exec, 2004-2005 -- David Stark"
><[log in to unmask]>,
> [log in to unmask], Gina Neff <[log in to unmask]>,
> 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
><[log in to unmask]>,
> 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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