A journal article by Marisa Cohn and Susan Sim of UC Irvine that I co-authored has been published. It is entitled What Counts as Software Process? Negotiating the Boundary of Software Work Through Artifacts and Conversation. The abstract is below: In software development, there is an interplay between Software Process models and Software Process enactments. The former tends to be abstract descriptions or plans. The latter tends to be specific instantiations of some ideal procedure. In this paper, we examine…

Gizmodo has the juicy details.  I’m thinking that the development team that worked on the Nook systematically studied the Kindle, both on their own and in the context of real people doing real reading, and then built the Nook.  I’m excited.

It’s been obvious for a while that the Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle 2 would eventually face stiff competition, both in terms of hardware platform and software/services design and availability. The competition, however, has taken a while to materialize, in part because it’s hard to get a bunch of competitors to decide on e-book formats, DRM, sales questions, etc., etc. So, the news today about the Google Editions e-book store is big because its presence in the market addresses…

That’s what Gizmodo is saying…and they’re also saying this new device will combine an e-ink screen with a multitouch display surface to boot.  This idea seems obvious and necessary, and it was only a matter of time before somebody made a multitouch-enabled e-reader (other than Sony).

Short article/video of students after they are introduced to their Kindles. Daily Princetonian coverage of the project (from Princeton, one of the Universities participating in the project)

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Call for Papers Special Issue of JCSCW Supporting Scientific Collaboration Through Cyberinfrastructure and e-Science Guest Editors: Charlotte P. Lee, David Ribes, Matthew Bietz , Marina Jirotka, and Helena Karasti Scientific collaboration using cyberinfrastructure (CI), or e-Science, is forward facing. e-Science projects aim to support the collaboration of research communities, whether by facilitating distanced collaboration or sharing data and computational resources. The most ambitious e-Science projects are creating entirely novel scientific fields, anticipating and actively cultivating new scientific…

Matt and Charlotte recently returned from the European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) in beautiful and elegant Vienna, Austria. In addition to enjoying the local sites and cuisine, they attended a one-day workshop on Infrastructures and Infrastructuring and also presented their paper “Collaboration in Metagenomics: Sequence Databases and the Organization of Scientific Work” in the main conference. Abstract: In this paper we conduct an ethnographic study of work to explore the interaction between scientific collaboration and computing technologies…

Wow, even KOMO TV is excited about the Kindle DX pilot project! While their article isn’t exactly hard-hitting

The ACM has released its list of Fellows for 2008. From their press release: “The ACM Fellows Program, initiated in 1993, celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of information technology throughout the world. The new ACM Fellows join a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in computing and information technology.” It’s great to see…

MIT Press has released Scientific Collaboration on the Internet, edited by Gary Olson, Ann Zimmerman, and Nathan Bos. The book came about through the Science of Collaboratories project at the University of Michigan School of Information. From the MIT Press website: Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants. Historically, scientific collaborations were carried out by scientists in the same physical location—the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for…