Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He is also Founder and Chief Creative Officer of software startup galaxyadvisors, where he puts his academic insights to practical use helping clients to coolhunt by analyzing social networking patterns on the Internet - and spot the next big thing by finding the trendsetters, and to coolfarm - making the cool trends succeed on online social networking sites. He is also Mercator Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne, and a lecturer at Aalto University in Helsinki. Previously, Peter was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading its e-Business practice for Europe, a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the section leader for software engineering at UBS. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Lab for Computer Science in the Advanced Networking Architecture group, working on hypertext well before the Web emerged. He obtained a Ph.D in computer science from the University of Zurich in 1989 and a Master’s degree in mathematics in 1986, also from the University of Zurich.