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Ederyn Williams, born September 21, 1946, is an academic, commentator, and writer. His published work focuses on Social Presence Theory and Technology Transfer.

Early life and education

Williams is the son of the Welsh academic and television critic Raymond Williams. He was privately educated at the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, and subsequently attended his father's old college of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA Natural Sciences in 1968. He later received a DPhil in Psychology from the University of Oxford.

Career

Ederyn Williams was a research assistant in psychology at University College London, Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins University. He then joined British Telecom where he managed businesses in information technology. Dr. Williams was briefly the head of the short-lived games company, Telecomsoft, in the early 1980s.

From 1991 Williams was the Managing Director of the now-defunct Leeds Innovations Ltd. In April 2000, Dr. Williams joined the University of Warwick where he founded an academic department which later became Warwick Ventures Ltd, a soi-disant technology commercialisation company. February of 2018, Warwick Ventures Ltd re-branded itself as an academic department within the University of Warwick. The legal corporate entity Warwick Ventures Ltd filed for voluntary liquidation on the 24th December 2018. Its activities were claimed by Williams to have been adversely affected by the Financial crisis of 2007–08. In April 2010, Williams was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion for his role in the development of knowledge transfer from universities to business in the UK. Dr. Williams retired from Warwick Ventures in September 2011.

Published Work

The following is a chronological list of published work where Dr. Ederyn Williams was an author or co-author.

1972

Factors Influencing the Effect of Medium of Communication Upon Preferences for Media, Conversation and Persons. Published by London: British Post Office.

Telecommunications and Medicine: Impact and Effectiveness was published by Long Range Intelligence Division of Post Office Telecommunications Headquarters.

1973

The Assessment of Telecommunications Systems -: With Special Reference to Conference Television.

Bell Canada Conference Television System Joint Unit for Planning Research University College was published by Communications studies Group.

1974

Overview of Present and Future Work of the Communications Studies Goup February 1974.

A Summary of the Present State of Knowledge Regarding the Effectiveness of the Substitution of Face-to-Face Meetings by Telecommunicated Meetings: Type Allocation Revisited.

Brainstorming and Coalition Formation Over Telecommunications Media, published by Post Office Corp.

1975

Coalition Formulation Over Telecommunications Media was published in the European Journal of Social Psychology.

Medium or Message: Communications Medium as a Determinant of Interpersonal Evaluation.

Field Studies of Telecommunications: A Structure and Some Proposals was published by Communications Studies Group.

1976

The Social Psychology of Telecommunications was published.

1977

Experimental Comparisons of Face-to-Face and Mediated Communication: A Review, was published in the Psychological Bulletin.

Research at the Communications Studies Group 1970-1977. A Final Report to the Post Office, Long Range Studies Divisions Group.

Teleconferencing: Is Video Valuable or is Audio Adequate? co-authored with Roger Pye.

1978

Social and Psychological Factors was published in the Journal of Communication (Volume 28, Issue 3).

Prestel:the Post Office Viewdata Service.

References

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2. Peter Vermij, European universities weigh spin-offs versus licensing patents, Bioentrepreneur (Nature Publishing Group), 14 April 2005. Accessed 18 November 2015.
3. 'Tripos Results', Times, 13 June 1968.
4. ^ "Executive Profile: Ederyn Williams". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
5. "News Desk - Beyond is brought from the cold". Popular Computing Weekly. 6–12 November 1986. p. 6. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
6. ^ "Queen's Award for Director of Warwick Ventures". PraxisUnico. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
7. Richard Tyler, University spin-off activity collapses, The Daily Telegraph, 21 Dec 2009
8. Cara Simpson, Warwick Ventures boss Ederyn Williams wins Queens Award, Coventry Telegraph, 23 April 2010. Accessed 18 November 2015.
9. "Warwick Ventures welcomes its new CEO". Warwick University. 23 August 2011. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
10. Williams, Ederyn (1972). Factors influencing the effect of medium of communication upon preferences for media, conversation and persons. London: Long Range Intelligence Division of Post Office Telecommunications Headquarters. OCLC 217166635.
11. Williams, Ederyn (1972). Telecommunications and medicine: impact and effectiveness. London: Long Range Intelligence Division of Post Office Telecommunications Headquarters. OCLC 217164642.
12. Williams, Ederyn (1973). The assessment of telecommunications systems -: with special reference to conference television. London: Communications Studies Group. OCLC 217180816.
13. Williams, Ederyn (1973). Bell Canada conference television system Joint unit for planning research University college. London: Communications studies Group. OCLC 500413531.
14. Williams, Ederyn (1974). Overview of present and future work of the Communications Studies Group February 1974. London: Post Office Corp. OCLC 217197588.
15. Williams, Ederyn; Post Office Corporation (Great Britain) (1974). A summary of the present state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of the substitution of face-to-face meetings by telecommunicated meetings: type allocation revisited. London: Post Office Corporation. OCLC 456472785.
16. Williams, Ederyn (1974). Brainstorming and coalition formation over telecommunications media. London: Post Office Corp. OCLC 217180789.
17. "PsycNET". psycnet.apa.org. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
18. Williams, Ederyn (1975). "Medium or Message: Communications Medium as a Determinant of Interpersonal Evaluation". Sociometry. 38 (1): 119–130. doi:10.2307/2786236. ISSN 0038-0431. JSTOR 2786236.
19. Williams, Ederyn (1975). Field studies of telecommunications: a structure and some proposals. London: Communications Studies Group. OCLC 217180804.
20. Short, John; Williams, Ederyn; Christie, Bruce (1976). The social psychology of telecommunications. Wiley. ISBN 9780471015819.
21. Williams, Ederyn (1977). "Experimental Comparisons of Face-to-Face Mediated Communiction: A Review". Retrieved 14 April 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
22. Williams, Ederyn (1977). Research at the communications studies group 1970-1977. A final report to the Post Office, Long Range Studies Divisions Group. Cambridge: Long Range Intelligence Division. OCLC 258132762.
23. Pye, Roger; Williams, Ederyn (June 1977). "Teleconferencing: is video valuable or is audio adequate?". Telecommunications Policy. 1 (3): 230–241. doi:10.1016/0308-5961(77)90027-1.
24. Ederyn Williams, Social and Psychological Factors, Journal of Communication, Volume 28, Issue 3, September 1978, Pages 125–131, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1978.tb01638.x
25. Williams, Ederyn; Donnelly, Maureen (1978). Prestel: the Post Office viewdata service. London. OCLC 902372846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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