Lee McKnight

Lee McKnight is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University; a Research Affiliate of the Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence at MIT; and President of Marengo Research, a consultancy. His writing, research interests, and consulting span policy, economic, business and technical aspects of the emerging global information economy. His new book (with Tyson T. Brooks) is Wireless Grid Edgeware for the Internet of Things: Cloud to Edge Secure Resource Sharing Architecture and Applications, Imperial College Press/World Scientific Press 2014.

Research

Lee's research interests span policy, economic, business and technical innovation in regional and global information economies. The role of information and communication technology innovation in shaping the global political and market virtual environments is of strong interest. In addition, I am interested in modeling new information systems services and applications and policies such as blockchain/distributed ledger technologies; innovation in cyber-physical security, advanced wireless services including Internet of Things, grids, Internet of things; 5G, nomadicity and mobility; Internet economics and policy; information technology development; national and international technology policy including for cyberlearning.The Open Specification Model for wireless grids in the Internet of Things v0.4 is among many other things, a summation of my research interests. The WiGiT Lab at Syracuse University iSchool led the research across a wide array of fields related to wireless grids, edgeware, mobile clouds, Internet of Things, and virtual markets, with support of the National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation Program, the Industrial Innovation Program, and other NSF Division of Engineering programs as well as corporate and community partners, which led to the initial formulations of the model and its experimental service, application, and device implementations, evaluated over time in 9 doctoral theses authored by students at 3 universities, Syracuse, Tufts and MIT. I continue this research in cooperation with WiTec, the Worldwide Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship Club, which I serve as the students and alumni faculty advisor. In addition to many peer reviewed articles in technical and policy journals and dozens of published chapters, Lee's academic work includes several books. Professor McKnight's next 4 books on his ground-breaking research will be published in 2018-2019 by Imperial College Press/World Scientific Press, Singapore and London.; The first book in the World Scientific Press series, 'Cloud to Edgeware: Wireless Grid Applications, Architecture and Security for the "Internet of Things"' is with Tyson T Brooks.; Lee's co-authored (with Peter Cukor) book 'Knowledge Networks, the Internet, and Development' was published by MIT Center for E-Business/Nabu Press, 2014 and 2011. McKnight's co-authored and co-edited books published by MIT Press include ;Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy;(2001,2002, Japanese translation by Toyo Kezai 2003; Chinese translation by Economic Sciences Press 2007), ;Internet Telephony;(2001), the award-winning ;The Gordian Knot:Political Gridlock on the Information Highway;(1997,1999) and Internet Economics (MIT Press, 1997, 1998), a path breaking work that was the first to develop metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions.