 | Global Collaborative Environment for Electronics How Electronics Industry achieves Global Product development across the world with Dassault Systemes solutions |
 | Croquet Software Demo Movie (August 2007) This is an edited screen capture from a Croquet demo given by Julian Lombardi in August of 2007. It shows some of the capabilities of the open source Croquet software development environment. Croquet is designed for use in creating and deploying large-scale distributed multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable. The Croquet architecture supports synchronous communication, collaboration, resource sharing and computation among large numbers of users on multiple platforms and multiple devices. |
 | 2007 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award - JASIG uPortal The uPortal project is an initiative to develop a free, sharable, constantly evolving, enterprise-wide Web portal specifically for higher education. It was one of the first attempts to apply open-source technologies in a collaborative development environment now referred to as "community source," and its evolution is part of the ongoing dynamic between commercial and educational technology interests. This video was produced by EDUCAUSE for the 2007 EDUCAUSE Conference in Seattle, WA. |
 | Lighthouse Learning Island This short Second Life video includes an overview of a collaborative professional development environment. |
 | Issues and Experiences in Designing Real-time Collaborative Editing Systems Google Tech Talks November 17, 2008 ABSTRACT Real-time collaborative editing systems allow physically dispersed users to work on shared text/hypertext/graphics/multimedia documents at the same time over the Internet. This class of systems have been known to pose multifaceted research and engineering challenges at the intersection of computer-supported cooperative work, distributed systems and algorithms, and software engineering. In this talk, I will reflect on our experiences on the core issues of algorithms design (Operational Transformation) for consistency maintenance and group undo in a multi-user editing environment, and system development for collaborative text editors, office productivity suites, to digital media design tools, spanning the past 15 years. Drawing on the observation that collaboration and conventional editing features are orthogonal and could (and should) be separately dealt with, I will present a new promising approach to building collaborative editing systems where advanced features for collaboration can be seamlessly integrated with a new or existing single-user application without modifying its source code. This new approach is powered by the GCE-TA technology: the Generic Collaboration Engine (GCE) encapsulates a comprehensive set of generic collaboration techniques and algorithms in a single reusable software package, while the Transparent Adaptation (TA) approach consists of a system architecture and a set of bridging techniques to integrate the GCE with single-user applications. This approach has the advantage of significantly reducing the complexity of collaborative system design and implementation, and at the same time, affords users with mature and familiar interface features directly inherited from single-user applications. I will talk about our on going efforts in using the GCE-TA technology to build desktop and web-based collaborative editing systems and illustrate the viability of this approach by demonstrating two systems - CoWord (a real-time collaborative word processor transparently adapted from MS Word, http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg) and CoMaya (a real-time collaborative 3D digital media design tool transparently adapted from Autodesk Maya). Speaker: Chengzheng Sun Chengzheng Sun is a full Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Since 1994, Dr Sun has led and acted as the chief designer of a number of well-known collaborative editing projects, including REDUCE, CoOffice, CoOpenOffice, CoMaya etc., which have made important contributions to the theory and practical implementation of collaborative editing systems. Prof Sun obtained a PhD in computer engineering from National University of Defense Technology, China in 1987, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1992. From 1988 to 1993, he worked as a researcher and a senior software engineer in Philips Research Labs Eindhoven and the ACE software company in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, participated in a number of distributed system projects. From May 1993 and June 2005, he worked as a professor and Chair of Internet Computing (since 1999) at Griffith University, Australia. His current research lies at the intersections of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed systems and computer communication networks, human-computer interaction, and software engineering. Dr Sun has published extensively and delivered seminars and tutorials on collaborative editing techniques widely at major international conferences, universities, and industrial research institutes/labs. |
 | Integrating Habitats. A design competition. The challenge Growing populations. Rapid development. Increased pressure on natural areas, clean rivers, streams and valuable fish and wildlife habitat. How can we achieve balance between development and conservation? What are the best ways to accommodate growth while protecting the region's environment and quality of life? Our approach Blend. Balance. Integrate. Use long-term vision, collaborative effort and holistic values to guide development that protects clean water and honors co-existence. Design for this generation and those to come. Design the built environment with nature in mind. The design competition Integrating Habitats will challenge entrants to work across disciplines in collaborative teams to create elegant and functional designs for conceptualized sites typical of the Portland metropolitan region. The competition's challenge is to create successful and innovative site designs that blend open space access, site planning, and environmental preservation and restoration in construction and development. The design categories neighborhood infill development with a remnant oak woodland/savannah habitat interface mixed use development with a riparian forest habitat interface commercial development with a lowland hardwood forest habitat interface Participants Students and practitioners from all relevant disciplines, including landscape architecture, architecture, planning, urban design, stormwater management, engineering, water quality, ecology, wildlife biology and development, are encouraged to participate. Outstanding features A world-renowned jury will select the very best designs and announce them at an award event. In addition, citizens and communities will select their favorite designs via the People's Choice Awards, a web-based gallery voting system. The Design Guide, a publication featuring the top choices, will be distributed throughout the region and beyond to promote projects that feature nature-friendly development and serve as a definitive resource for the design and development communities on solutions to protecting and restoring nature in new and re-developments. Register at: www.metro-region.org/integratinghabitats |
 | Integrating Habitats. An award celebration. Part 1: Intros The challenge Growing populations. Rapid development. Increased pressure on natural areas, clean rivers, streams and valuable fish and wildlife habitat. How can we achieve balance between development and conservation? What are the best ways to accommodate growth while protecting the region's environment and quality of life? Our approach Blend. Balance. Integrate. Use long-term vision, collaborative effort and holistic values to guide development that protects clean water and honors co-existence. Design for this generation and those to come. Design the built environment with nature in mind. The design competition Integrating Habitats will challenge entrants to work across disciplines in collaborative teams to create elegant and functional designs for conceptualized sites typical of the Portland metropolitan region. The competition's challenge is to create successful and innovative site designs that blend open space access, site planning, and environmental preservation and restoration in construction and development. The design categories neighborhood infill development with a remnant oak woodland/savannah habitat interface mixed use development with a riparian forest habitat interface commercial development with a lowland hardwood forest habitat interface Participants Students and practitioners from all relevant disciplines, including landscape architecture, architecture, planning, urban design, stormwater management, engineering, water quality, ecology, wildlife biology and development, are encouraged to participate. Outstanding features A world-renowned jury will select the very best designs and announce them at an award event. In addition, citizens and communities will select their favorite designs via the People's Choice Awards, a web-based gallery voting system. The Design Guide, a publication featuring the top choices, will be distributed throughout the region and beyond to promote projects that feature nature-friendly development and serve as a definitive resource for the design and development communities on solutions to protecting and restoring nature in new and re-developments. |
 | CATAAlliance - Going Global The Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance grows the revenues of its 28,000 members by creating a collaborative edge -- a chain of expanding value that ripples across Canada's Innovators, Commercializers, Users, and Professionals. The largest high-tech association in Canada, CATAAlliance matches businesses with opportunities across almost every sector, so that we can all do business together. Reaching out from Canada, CATAAlliance members are connected with investment and partnership opportunities with the major global companies. As 80% are exporters, CATA's members are the arrow-head for global growth. Through its "Innovation Nation" program, CEOs come together to catalyze the development of the Canadian business environment. CATA is the foundation for commercialization, market research, networking, events, access to other associations, and professional development, across the nation. Add your strength to the collaborative edge -- we would like to connect with you! Support Industry Advocacy: Apply for membership today. |
 | Integrating Habitats. An award celebration. Part 4: Cat. 1 The challenge Growing populations. Rapid development. Increased pressure on natural areas, clean rivers, streams and valuable fish and wildlife habitat. How can we achieve balance between development and conservation? What are the best ways to accommodate growth while protecting the region's environment and quality of life? Our approach Blend. Balance. Integrate. Use long-term vision, collaborative effort and holistic values to guide development that protects clean water and honors co-existence. Design for this generation and those to come. Design the built environment with nature in mind. The design competition Integrating Habitats will challenge entrants to work across disciplines in collaborative teams to create elegant and functional designs for conceptualized sites typical of the Portland metropolitan region. The competition's challenge is to create successful and innovative site designs that blend open space access, site planning, and environmental preservation and restoration in construction and development. The design categories neighborhood infill development with a remnant oak woodland/savannah habitat interface mixed use development with a riparian forest habitat interface commercial development with a lowland hardwood forest habitat interface Participants Students and practitioners from all relevant disciplines, including landscape architecture, architecture, planning, urban design, stormwater management, engineering, water quality, ecology, wildlife biology and development, are encouraged to participate. Outstanding features A world-renowned jury will select the very best designs and announce them at an award event. In addition, citizens and communities will select their favorite designs via the People's Choice Awards, a web-based gallery voting system. The Design Guide, a publication featuring the top choices, will be distributed throughout the region and beyond to promote projects that feature nature-friendly development and serve as a definitive resource for the design and development communities on solutions to protecting and restoring nature in new and re-developments. |
 | Integrating Habitats. An award celebration. Part 5: Cat. 2 The challenge Growing populations. Rapid development. Increased pressure on natural areas, clean rivers, streams and valuable fish and wildlife habitat. How can we achieve balance between development and conservation? What are the best ways to accommodate growth while protecting the region's environment and quality of life? Our approach Blend. Balance. Integrate. Use long-term vision, collaborative effort and holistic values to guide development that protects clean water and honors co-existence. Design for this generation and those to come. Design the built environment with nature in mind. The design competition Integrating Habitats will challenge entrants to work across disciplines in collaborative teams to create elegant and functional designs for conceptualized sites typical of the Portland metropolitan region. The competition's challenge is to create successful and innovative site designs that blend open space access, site planning, and environmental preservation and restoration in construction and development. The design categories neighborhood infill development with a remnant oak woodland/savannah habitat interface mixed use development with a riparian forest habitat interface commercial development with a lowland hardwood forest habitat interface Participants Students and practitioners from all relevant disciplines, including landscape architecture, architecture, planning, urban design, stormwater management, engineering, water quality, ecology, wildlife biology and development, are encouraged to participate. Outstanding features A world-renowned jury will select the very best designs and announce them at an award event. In addition, citizens and communities will select their favorite designs via the People's Choice Awards, a web-based gallery voting system. The Design Guide, a publication featuring the top choices, will be distributed throughout the region and beyond to promote projects that feature nature-friendly development and serve as a definitive resource for the design and development communities on solutions to protecting and restoring nature in new and re-developments. |
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