Q:Facts:   - doctoral students: rebecca grinter leysia palen    - prizes: acm award sigchi chi academy acm fellow cscw lasting impact    - known for: grudin number grudin paradox    - caption: jonathan grudin at microsoft research in 2009 .    - field: human-computer interaction cscw    - doctoral advisor: donald norman      - work institution: microsoft and computer technology corporation research uc irvine wang laboratories aarhus university microelectronics    - name: jonathan grudin    - nationality: american    - image: jonathan grudin.jpg    - alma mater: reed college purdue university ucsd   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jonathan grudin .
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jonathan grudin is a principal researcher at microsoft research in the fields of human-computer interaction -lrb- hci -rrb- and computer-supported cooperative work -lrb- cscw -rrb- .grudin is a pioneer of the field of cscw and one of its most prolific contributors .his collaboration distance to other hci researchers has been described by the grudin number , similar to the erdős number in mathematics .grudin is also well known for the grudin paradox or grudin problem , which states basically with respect to the design of collaborative software for organizational settings , `` what may be in the managers ' best interests may not be in the ordinary users ' interests . ''he was awarded the inaugural cscw lasting impact award in 2014 on the basis of this work .prior to working at microsoft research , grudin was a professor of information and computer science at the university of california , irvine from 1991 to 1998 .his career has spanned numerous institutions .he worked at wang laboratories as a computer programmer -lrb- 1974 -- 1975 and 1983 -- 1986 -rrb- .he was a visiting scientist in the psychology and artificial intelligence laboratories at mit -lrb- 1976 -- 1979 -rrb- and then a nato postdoctoral fellow at the medical research council 's applied psychology unit -lrb- now known as the cognition and brain sciences unit -lrb- 1982 -- 1983 -rrb- -rrb- .he spent from 1986-1989 at the microelectronics and computer technology corporation before taking a series of faculty positions -lrb- including visiting professorships -rrb- at aarhus university -lrb- 1989 -- 1991 -rrb- , the university of california , irvine -lrb- 1991 -- 1998 -rrb- , keio university -lrb- 1995 -rrb- and the university of oslo -lrb- 1997 -rrb- .from 1997 to 2003 , he was editor-in-chief of `` acm transactions on computer-human interaction '' -lrb- tochi -rrb- , one of the most prestigious journals in the field of hci .grudin was inducted into the selective acm sigchi chi academy in 2004 .in 2012 , he was made an acm fellow for ``...