Starr Roxanne Hiltz

Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University, Vassar College
Occupation	Distinguished Professor Emerita
Known for	Computer-mediated communication, E-learning
Awards	EFF Pioneer Award
Scientific career
Fields	Information Systems, Sociology
Institutions	New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers–Newark

Starr Roxanne Hiltz is a retired Distinguished Professor of Information Science/Information Systems at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). She, along with Murray Turoff (her husband), are the authors of The Network Nation, a book that is described as "the seminal book that helped define the electronic frontier".^[1]

Awards and honors

• Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (1994)
• Sloan-C Award for "Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching and Learning by an Individual” (2004)^[2]
• Named as Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Communications and Media (2008)^[3]

References

1. EFF Pioneer Awards Archived 2010-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
2. NJIT : NJIT Awards Starr Roxanne Hiltz Master Teacher Award
3. Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz, ProvenSecure Solutions, Accessed 2017-06-27

Further reading

• Subramanian, R. (2013). "Starr Roxanne Hiltz: Pioneer Digital Sociologist". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 35: 78–85. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2013.11. S2CID 25417547.

External links

• "NJIT Experts Guide"
• "Home-Page of Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz"