Senior Fellow, Annenberg Center at USC

John Seely Brown is currently a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center at USC. Previously, he was the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a position he held for nearly two decades. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS and a Trustee of Brown University and the MacArthur Foundation. He serves on numerous public boards (Amazon, Corning, Varian Medical Systems and Polycom) and private boards of directors.