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IBM Research Lab Spotlights Collaboration at Lotusphere Visitors to Lotusphere 2004 will get a firsthand look at collaboration in the future at the IBM Research Lab. Lotus draws on the work of groups from across the Research Division, so once again the Collaborative User Experience (CUE) Research group will host a joint effort of teams and projects from the T.J. Watson Lab from Hawthorne and Yorktown, New York; Almaden, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Haifa, Israel. On Monday afternoon, CUE director Irene Greif, joined by researchers Martin Wattenberg and Li-Te Cheng, will outline what's in store for visitors to the lab in their talk, "Glimpsing the Future:The Research Behind the Lotus products." Here's a complete list of the demos in the lab: Jazz: A Workplace for Developers An example of contextual collaboration in the programming environment. Jazz enhances the process of software development through tight integration of tools that provide developers with awareness of their team members' work, and lets them discuss source code and share work. ActivityExplorer A new productivity tool that merges the ad hoc power of email and chat with the rich collaboration features of shared workspaces. ActivityExplorer helps people share their work at the document level and combines these shared documents into structured collections that capture complete tasks and activities. Donuts: A Collaborative RSS Reader RSS allows information-thirsty users to collect a vast amount of material from news sites, blogs, wikis, and source and document repositories. This prototype, built on top of IBM Websphere Portal Server, explores how groups can identify, share, and discuss interesting items from incoming feeds. Personal, Adaptive Rich Media for Enterprise Applications Using MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a new multimedia standard for coding and creating composites from audio, video, graphics, text, etc. into a presentation scene with user interactivity. MPEG-4 coding treats a scene as a collection of media objects, each of which is individually coded and can be updated dynamically. LiveGroups: Bridging Synchronous/Asynchronous Collaboration with Lotus Workplace A Lotus Workplace-based portlet that provides collaboration in a mixed synchronous/asynchronous environment. LiveGroups leverages Usenet newsgroup concepts to create a topic-based environment that is combined with awareness and persistent chat. LiveBook Once books are published, they don't change. LiveBook makes documents dynamic, allowing people to share and edit them anywhere, anytime from the network without special software. Hierarchical storing gives users more control over editing and multiple views of the same material. Anti-Spam Solutions A multifaceted approach to filtering enterprise Spam that includes bayesian analysis, similarity matching, honeypots, challenge systems, and pattern-matching algorithms from the life sciences. Visitors will also see the latest version of MailGuru for LWM and SwiftFile for Notes. Collaborative Business Process Support in Lotus Workplace A model-driven approach to creating collaborative business process solutions on Lotus Workplace. We use the drug discovery process in the pharmaceutical industry to illustrate our approach. Accessibility Technologies Innovative IBM Research technologies that make information accessible to more people, regardless of their abilities or disabilities. On Demand Innovation Services (ODIS) Collaboration Micropractice Extends the resources of IBM Business Consulting Services with Research's expertise in collaboration to create higher-value opportunities for clients. Design Explorations of Privacy Design “studies” of instant messaging and buddy list clients for the future - from the possible to the improbable. Intentionally provocative, each study is designed to probe privacy issues in peer-to-peer collaboration. Unified Business Activity Management Human activity encompasses people's goals, projects, tasks, to-dos, and actions. This application, based on a unified concept of activity across Lotus Workplace, supports personal task management and a visualization of a collaborative business process that makes them both more adaptive and efficient. Visualizations Exciting new data visualization technology that can help members of on-line communities collaborate more effectively. Rendezvous Integrates state-of-the-art telephony (VoIP) technologies with collaborative software, resulting in a unified user experience for voice-based interactions in Lotus Workplace and significant cost savings for the enterprise. C + B Seen Provides enhanced awareness of your on-line circle of collaborators. Built on the familiar metaphor of a Sametime client, but with a richer context than "Active/Away/Do Not Disturb" signs, it allows fluid navigation of the social network and real-time awareness of desktop activity.