Learning Together Online

Starr Roxanne Hiltz was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and educated at Vassar College and Columbia University, where she received an M.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1969) in sociology. She has taught at Upsala College and Rutgers University, as well as the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she holds the title of Distinguished Professor in the Departmentof Computer and Information Science. Hiltz has also served as director of the Collaborative Systems Laboratory and associate director of the Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center, both at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Hiltz's book Network Nation (1978), which was co-authored with Murray Turoff, received the "TSM Award" of the Association of American Publishers for the Best Technical Publication, and quickly became the standard reference in the field of computer-mediated communications (CMC). The first part of this work covered the nature of computerized conferencing; the second part dealt with its potential applications and impacts; and the third part discussed the future of computerized conferencing and its regulation. The second edition of Network Nation (1993) contains new material on superconnectivity developments during the last fifteen years, and updates on the future.

Hiltz is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and has received major grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Mental Health, the Annenberg Foundation and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Sloan Foundation. In 1990 she was recipient of the Electronic Networking Association's Rodale Award for Creative Achievement. Her research focuses on video and the virtual classroom.

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