IBM is pushing its Jazz developer collaboration technology as a research tool and has given money to some universities that are researching how to break down cultural and geographic barriers when developing software…. Three universities were awarded the grants to help drive the software community’s ability to think beyond the individual developer to organizational productivity. The University of California, Irvine, is exploring the use of multi-monitor environments to improve project awareness and development practices. Two other awardees, the University of British Columbia and University of Victoria, both in Canada, are embracing the collaboration capabilities of Jazz and researching software development team interactions and communication.eWeek: IBM Touts Jazz for Research

Touching on topics I’ve mentioned previously in Software Visualization and IBM Jazz and Location oriented software development, CNN reports that

In its research, the University of California, Irvine is exploring the use of multi-monitor environments to improve project awareness and development practices. To date, software engineering tools are designed under the assumption that they must effectively operate on a single monitor on a developer’s desk. The trend, however, is to equip developer’s desks with multiple, typically larger monitors, and to equip community areas with tiled displays through which vast amounts of information can be shared. This research leverages Jazz technology to explore how software development tools should be (re)designed to take advantage of this extra display space, with a particular focus on project awareness. The Jazz platform provides many hooks and listeners through which the information that the visualizations need can be obtained.

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UC Berkeley’s dean of engineering is remaking the school’s program to attract new students. He’s mixing nanotech, biology and social engineering into the agenda.

… Berkeley isn’t alone in trying to mix in these types of subjects. Stanford University has opened its own design school. Chipmaker Intel, meanwhile, has hired anthropologists in recent years to get a better handle on how people, particularly in emerging nations, interact with technology.

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