Colloquium Details
Embracing the Revolution: From Web 2.0 to CSCW 2.0
| Author: | Du Li Texas A&M University |
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| Date: | April 26, 2007 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Host: | Jun Li |
Abstract
Featured by popular services such as Google Docs, YouTube, MySpace, and Wikipedia, the ongoing Web 2.0 revolution is shaping the Internet into a next-generation platform for collaborative computing. The revolution provides unprecedented opportunities for Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), changing the ways how systems are designed, evaluated, and deployed. The speaker has been recently working on a few CSCW projects, including (1) an application sharing system that allows users to share unmodified, heterogeneous single-user tools for unconstrained collaboration, (2) a component-based system that separates data and control components so that they can be dynamically associated at run time, and (3) an optimistic consistency control method that supports lock-free, nonblocking interaction in high-latency collaborative environments. This talk overviews the research rationales, findings, and challenges in those projects and discusses how to take a ride from the Web 2.0 revolution. Some of the lessons could be common in many other CS research projects.
Biography
Dr. Du Li earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2000. He joined the faculty of Texas A&M University in 2000 and received an NSF CAREER award in 2002. He does research in the area of CSCW from the perspective of distributed computing, developing algorithms and systems for human users to collaborate more productively. His work involves areas such as software engineering, distributed systems, WWW, and user interfaces. More info is available at http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~lidu/.