Richard Harper

Updated: 11/16/2019 by Computer Hope
Richard H. Harper

Name: Richard H. Harper

Born: Unknown

Computer-related contributions

  • British sociologist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, UK.
  • Co-manages the Socio-Digital Systems group for Microsoft Research.
  • Former researcher at Xerox PARC's fifth lab, EuroPARC, in Cambridge, England, UK.

Significant publications

  • Trust, Computing and Society (2014).
  • Texture: Human expression in the age of communications overload (2011).
  • The Connected Home: the future of domestic life (2011).
  • The Myth of the Paperless Office (2002).
  • Inside the IMF (1997).

Honors and awards

  • Awarded the Society of Internet Researcher's Book of the Year (2011).
  • Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2011).
  • Selected to be UK's first Professor of Socio-Digital Systems, in the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey, England (2000).

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