My Facebook Network
In response to Jude and Eric, I decided to check out my facebook friend network using Nexus. Nothing too surprising here, except what isn’t shown. I have “real” friends who don’t use facebook, but actually…
NSF not cut from stimulus
Quick update: it’s looking like the NSF made it into the stimulus package after all. Good news, but I still don’t think we can relax.
Stimulation
I’m bothered by the rhetoric coming out of the debate on the stimulus package. In comments from lawmakers and the press, the arts and sciences rank high in the various lists of pork and “unnecessary…
Recording Phone Interviews
I’ve been doing a lot of phone interviews for a study of Collaboration in Cyberinfrastructure, and many of them require international calls. In the past I’ve recorded interviews by putting a sound recorder with a…
A New Name
The Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington (where I am a Research Scientist) is changing its name! We are now the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering. The name change represents a…
Being Thankful
Nice post today by Jonathan Eisen about What Scientists Should Be Thankful For. A great list. “8. Study Subjects or Objects” seems especially important for those of us in the social sciences. I’d never be…
Scientific Collaboration on the Internet
The Scientific Collaboration on the Internet book has (finally) been published. Check out my chapter (with Gary Olson and Marsha Naidoo) on the work we did with international AIDS research collaborations. From the MIT Press…
Is he anyone? Is this cool?
Last week I went to someone else’s conference. I’ve been to a lot of conferences in my field, but I don’t often attend conferences so far outside my own domain. But as part of a…
Google’s Way
I don’t like it when software insists that there is only one right way to do something. Most of the time it doesn’t matter (or I don’t care) if I have to click A before…
Cyberinfrastructure Workshop
I’m organizing (with Charlotte Lee and David Ribes) a workshop at the upcoming CSCW 2008 conference. There’s still time to send a position paper! Here are the details:
Workshop on Designing Cyberinfrastructure to Support Science
At the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Saturday, November 8. San Diego, CA
Recent years have seen the rise of new forms of large-scale distributed scientific enterprises supported primarily through advanced information infrastructures. These advanced infrastructures are called “cyberinfrastructure,” although terms such as grid computing, collaboratories, and eScience are also commonly used. Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Cyberinfrastructure intersect in their aims to support collaboration within heterogeneous groups and across physical distribution. Furthermore the development of CI – or large-scale informational resources – is itself a form of collaborative work worthy of CSCW research.