Co-founder of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

co-founder of the field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) with Paul Cashman it is the science of interaction between people and their machines; 1988 edited "Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, A Book of Readings," the first book in the field; ran a team in the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science that developed systems to allow co-authoring and shared and real-time collaboration; she and her team produced Version Manager for the hugely successful 1-2-3 spreadsheet program; played a key role in the strategy for Domino, a Lotus web-based business collaboration suite that included enterprise-grade email, workflow and security features; her evangelism of synchronous communications, or chat, led to Sametime, Lotus’s real-time communications platform and the first channel for delivering Lotus Notes mail on the PalmPilot; 2007 her team, in partnership with IBM’s Visual Communications Lab, delivered Many Eyes, a service that connected groups to data graphics to help them collectively analyze information; her innovations include Reinvent Email, business activities, and social bookmarking;

Spreadsheet program which implements alternative range references`

Category:
Computer Science

Completion Status:
yes

Patent Number:
5371675

Co-Inventor:
Richard A. Landsman; Robert Balaban