Paul Dourish

Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish making a presentation at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Born	1966 Glasgow, Scotland
Education	PhD in Computer Science
Occupation	Professor
Employer	University of California, Irvine
Known for	research at the intersection of computer science and social science
Website	http://www.dourish.com/

Paul Dourish (born 1966) is a computer scientist best known for his work and research at the intersection of computer science and social science. Born in Scotland, he is a professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he joined the faculty in 2000. He is a Fellow of the ACM, and winner of the CSCW 2016 "Lasting Impact" award. Dourish has published two books and over 100 scientific articles, and holds 19 US patents.

Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Dourish received a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. He moved five years later to work at Rank Xerox EuroPARC (later the Xerox Research Center Europe) in Cambridge, UK, where he completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at University College London (UCL).

After completing his Ph.D, he moved to California, working for Apple Computer in Cupertino, California. He worked in research laboratories at Apple Computer until they closed 10 months later and then at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, and held visiting positions at Intel and Stanford University.