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The DISCUS project has always supported that intuition that annotation capabilities are a must for knowledge and information exchange. For instance, imaging that you are analyzing the KeyGraph generated from a particular discussion (here you can find an example). You may want to enrich such graph with your analysis, comments, or related information. Basically, you want to add metadata to the KeyGraph. If such a capability is available, a whole new bunch of information will need to be efficiently stored to allow, not only fast and easy retrieval, but allow analysis of the added metadata....

by Xavier Llorà and David E. Goldberg, Yukio Ohsawa, Naohiro Matsumura, Yuichi Washida, Hiroshi Tamura, Masataka Yoshikawa, Michael Welge, Loretta Auvil, Duane Searshmith, Kei Ohnishi, and Chen-Ju Chao (2006). New Mathematics and Natural Computation, World Scientific, pp. 2(1):85–100. Link to the Journal publication. Abstract Creativity protocols and methodologies tend to be time consuming if applied manually. This paper presents how information technologies can support innovation and creativity for collaborative scenario creation and discussion....

Eight minutes and thirty-seven seconds was the fencing time of the semifinal between Peter Habala and David Lidow. By far, this bout was the best fencing at the Illinois Open. I ever seen in my two and half years of foil fencer. Everybody knew that this was the anticipated final. To impressive details: David’s point accuracy was from another world, Peter fleshing could cover in less than half a second around four lethal meters flying in the air....

by Xavier Llorà and David E. Goldberg (2006). IlliGAL TR No 2006011. Link to the PDF. Abstract The pervasive expansion of computers and Internet has change the way people collaborate. Terms such as cybercollaboratories are getting traction in day-to-day work. Web boards, blogs, e-mails, and instant messaging have become de facto mainstream communication channels. People scattered across the globe collaborate thanks to such technologies to carry out their daily work. Creative processes—such as collaborative engineering—have also taken advantage of such new communication media....

I attended the first all staff meeting at NCSA. There a lot of exiting challenges here. You can learn more about the NCSA mission here, but a must-read document is the NCSA 2010: The future of NCSA, which gives a general overview of NCSA strategy for the years to come. Another interesting editorial by NCSA’s director Thom Dunning can be found here.