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

We will be hosting a Collaboration Colloquium for the Fall 2009 Semester on Wednesday at 4pm PDT
on alternating weeks, and "incubator" workshop sessions on the other weeks

• September 30: Martin Griss, The Mobile Companion (Slides as PDF)
• October 14: Baruch Blumberg, Collaborative Experiences in Medical Research and the Formation of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
• October 21: Incubator
• October 28: Sean Mooney, Collaboration in the Age of Cyberinfrastructure: Lessons from Biomedicine
• November 4: Incubator
• November 11: No meeting, Veteran's Day
• November 18: Robert Dolci, Putting Innovative Technologies in the Hands of our Emergency Responders: Establishing a Framework for Collaboration, Coordination, and Communication
• November 25: No meeting, Thanksgiving
• December 2: Incubator
• December 9: TBD
• December 16: Incubator

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 submited paper: Overseer: A Mobile Context-Aware Collaboration and Task Management System for Disaster Response