Center for Collaboration Science and Applications

NASA Ames, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley and Lockheed Martin have formed an exciting new virtual center to explore the science and the applications of collaboration.

CCSA's vision statement is:

• To be a Center of excellence in pioneering collaboration as a scientific investigation integrating multiple disciplines
• To provide state of the art expertise and recommendations for projects, missions and teams doing collaborative work
• To create, evaluate and implement collaborative systems, social protocols and procedures
• To provide open environments for the investigation and application of collaborative technologies

Collaboration Colloquium Schedule:

2011

• February 9: Tea Lempiälä - Smuggler’s Guide to Innovation - Why and How Organizational Actors Use Clandestine Ways to Get Their Ideas Accepted in the Organization

2010 Colloquium Talks

• August 11: Gregory D'alesandre - Building Google Wave
• July 28: Stanley Rosenschein - Social Protocols and the Challenge of Scalability
• July 14: Elizabeth Foughty - The NASA Earth Exchange Website, DASHlink, and C3: Designing Collaborative Websites @ NASA ARC
• Larry Leifer, Dancing with Ambiguity: Collaboration Design in Theory and Practice
• K. Estelle Dodson, Collaboration in the Virtual Institutes

2009 Colloquium Talks

• Martin Griss, The Mobile Companion (Slides as PDF)
• Baruch Blumberg, Collaborative Experiences in Medical Research and the Formation of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
• Sean Mooney, Collaboration in the Age of Cyberinfrastructure: Lessons from Biomedicine
• Robert Dolci, Putting Innovative Technologies in the Hands of our Emergency Responders: Establishing a Framework for Collaboration, Coordination, and Communication

For more information, please contact:

• Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley - Martin Griss, Director, Silicon Valley Campus

• NASA Ames - Michael Sims, Intelligent Systems Division

• Lockheed Martin - Estelle Dodson, Chief Technology Officer, Ames Program

Related events:

• Random Hacks of Kindness, Disaster Relief Codejam, Nov 12-14, Mountain View, CA, http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/random-hacks-of-kindness-disas.html
  • See: Slides from Carnegie Mellon Disaster Management Initiative team.
• C5 2010: The Eighth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, January 25-28, 2010, La Jolla, CA. http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-10
  • See: Abstract of accepted C5 paper: Overseer: A Mobile Context-Aware Collaboration and Task Management System for Disaster Response (.pdf)
  • Full paper (.pdf)