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Informatics
CPI 101
Coordination and
Networking
Prabhdeep Singh
Arizona State University
Overview
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State of the art.
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How it works.
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Future.
Scheduling
Outlook Calendar
 Google Calendar
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SMS, API
Issues :
Personal scheduling.
 Scheduling between partners – automatic,
manual
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Coordination
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Geographic constraints
Time constraints
People are inherently lazy
Wikis - Collaborative spaces – pbwiki, jotspot, tiddlywiki
Project management – online , offline
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Aceproject
MS Project
Sharepoint
SaaS and Web hosted models
Networking
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Social Networks
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Myspace – why did it
work
Facebook – alerts,
API
Microblogging
LinkedIn – your
network is your
resume.
Wisdom of the crowds
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Motley caps - finance
Digg - News
Dealio, Wize - shopping
Mashups
Videos
Q&A
Concentrated
Distributed
Dating
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eHarmony – attribute based matching.
(eHarmony couples 35% more likely than other married couples to
report that they enjoy spending time together.)
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Woome
The Two Extremes Machine vs Humans
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Human Centric Efforts
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Amazon Mturk
 CHA CHA.com
 Dmoz
Scalability ?????
So how does it look from inside
Deployment
Model
Gazing through the crystal ball
BioLog System Architecture
Figure 5. BioLog: PubMed Recording, Reasoning and Recommending (R3) Navigation Assistant Pilot Study
“Interactive”
Shopping
Experts & Influencers
Suggests Items
• Experts:
not
big name
famous -small folks
w/some cred:
Upload Text/VIDEO reviews
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Answers questions
Friends
Chats with shopper
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Stay home
Convinces shopper
moms
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Professionals
Shoppers
Searched or Abandoned Items
• Online
Shoppers on
Views Suggestions
the Web,
Adds
to Wishlist
Facebook,
Sets Price Alert
Asks
Questions
MySpace
• Offline
Shoppers
Rates reviews and suggestions
with cell
phone
Buys
the product
Chats with expert Suggestors
Receives reward on sale
Becomes Loyal Suggestor/Shopper
Invite friends
Invite friends
Informaticians’ Job
Who are the experts.
 How can we capture, encode, archive,
index and retrieve human knowledge.
 How can the knowledge be efficiently
exchanged for collaboration.
 Can the machines be entrusted to make
connections and decisions for us.
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