12/14/2005
11:30am-1:00pm
DLC 170
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Networked Development Environments: What Are They and What Could They Mean for Collaboration between Programmers and Domain Scientists?
SRI International
Inspired by the need to support interdisciplinary student teams working on
software development projects, we have created a prototype system for
distributed groups to share computational "work in progress". The result is
what one might call a "networked development environment" or a "computational
wiki". We are currently exploring how this environment can improve
collaboration between biologists who need small computational tools to advance
their research and software developers who have the skills to produce the tools
quickly and with high quality.
There are challenges: scientists and developers each have their own technical
languages; they need to work with hard-to-capture dynamic artifacts such as
data and programs; they have differing notions of the value of tool reuse; and
collaboration is often triggered by crisis rather than opportunity. This
presentation will demonstrate the networked development environment concept,
connect the concept with emerging ideas of "Web 2.0" and invite discussion
around implications for developer-scientist collaborations.
Sponsored by the Center for Lifelong Learning & Design.
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