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Research seminar with Dr Charlotte P. Lee

Cyberinfrastructures and the transformation of scientific and engineering practice
By Dr Charlotte P. Lee, Director of the Computer Supported Collaboration (CSC) Laboratory, University of Washington
Abstract:
Recent years have seen the rise of new forms of large-scale distributed enterprises supported primarily through advanced technological infrastructures such as supercomputers and high speed networks. We refer to these as cyberinfrastructure.
Cyberinfrastructure is transforming and accelerating scientific and engineering practice. Although one of the primary aims of cyberinfrastructure is to transform practice, relatively little research has focused on systematically studying the actual practices of cyberinfrastructure development and use or on studying the transformations that cyberinfrastructure is created to engender.
Given that cyberinfrastructure is comprised not only of advanced computational technologies, but also of scientists and engineers who are both developers and end users, the talk will report on
  • existing scientific and engineering practices
  • how scientific and engineering practices are collaboratively transformed in the creation of cyberinfrastructure
  • patterns of collaboration (e.g. social networks, and "synergizing")
The talk will draw on an ethnographic study of a nascent metagenomic cyberinfrastructure project.
The seminar will be introduced by Professor Kjeld Schmidt.
Link to Dr Charlotte P. Lee’s homepage http://faculty.washington.edu/cplee/index.html
For further information please contact:
Professor Kjeld Schmidt
ks.ioa@cbs.dk
Tel: 38 15 29 21

Tid: 29.01 10.00 -12.00


Sted: Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School
Kilen, Kilevej 14A
2000 Frederiksberg


Lokale: K4.74




Sidst opdateret af Dorrit Majlund 08.01.2010