Department of Informatics - Events
Informatik-Kolloquium
Prof. Dr. Clarence Ellis
COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY: ADVANCES AND APOCALYPSE
Groupware has been steadily gaining in popularity - it can
now be found everywhere from the White House in Washington D.C.
to food stands in Delhi, India. Groupware is
hardware and software specifically designed for use by
interacting groups of people. The emerging scientific discipline
associated with groupware is called "Computer-Supported Cooperative Work,"
or "Collaborative Computing."
This talk will begin by briefly introducing, with examples,
the concepts of groupware, CSCW, collaborative computing, and workflow.
What are the research issues in this discipline? What is the future of groupware?
What are the obstacles? We will provide opinion and possible answers to
these questions. There will be coverage of the state of the art
in this area; touching upon some of the ways in which computer science may
be useful in addressing some of the currently unsolved problems.
Dr. Clarence (Skip) Ellis is a Professor of Computer Science,
and Co-Director of the Collaboration Technology
Research Group at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
At Colorado, he is a member of the Systems Software Lab,
and the Institute for Cognitive Science. During 1991, he
was chief architect of the FlowPath workflow product of
Bull S.A. Previously he was the head of the Groupware
Research Group within the Software Technology Program
at MCC. For the decade prior to joining MCC, he was a
research scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Mr.
Ellis has worked as a researcher and developer at Bull, Bell
Telephone Laboratories, IBM, Xerox, MCC, Los Alamos
Scientific Labs, and Argonne National Lab. His academic
experience includes teaching at Stanford University, MIT,
University of Texas, Stevens Institute of Technology, and in
China under an AFIPS overseas teaching fellowship. He has
published several books, and over 100 technical papers and
reports, lectured in more than a dozen countries, is past
chairman of the ACM special interest group on office information systems,
and was an invited speaker on object oriented systems at the recent IFIP World Computer
Conference.
Referent: Prof. Dr. Clarence Ellis
Zeitpunkt: Mittwoch, 22. Mai 1996, 20 Uhr
Ort: HS 4 der Universität Klagenfurt
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