About me
Senior Software Engineer
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Cambridge)
In September of 2003, Jonathan Feinberg joined CUE Research as an Advisory Software Engineer on David Millen's Group Spaces team. Previously, he had spent 15 months at netomat, inc., where he helped bring to market their innovative messaging application. He has worked closely with fellow CUE Research member Martin Wattenberg on several projects, including the award-winning "Map of the Market." Jonathan has also helped other prominent computer-based artists realize their projects; he has had a hand in Golan Levin's The Secret Lives of Numbers, The Alphabet Synthesis Machine, and The Dumpster, and in Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak's Apartment.
C+B Seen, Activity Explorer
In 2003, Jonathan leveraged Wattenberg's work to create an Eclipse plug-in that gives the user a visualization of the CVS revision history for a source code document. He assisted Paul Moody with a project to explore the limits of on-line awareness, C+B Seen. He also ported Activity Explorer to the IBM Workplace Client as a proof-of-concept for Lotusphere 2004; this work has since been adapted to production code in the 2.5 release of IBM Workplace.
Kontiki
In 2004 Jonathan was technical lead on a project, Kontiki, to bring wiki-like collaborative co-construction to the construction of forms and workflow.
RTED, dogear
In the past year, Jonathan has created two systems for general use within IBM. The first, "Real-Time Enterprise Directory", provides a service to applications that wish to provide "auto-completion", or name disambiguation, over the entire corporate directory of some 400,000 names. The second, dogear, is a social bookmarking service. Jonathan co-presented a paper on dogear at the CHI 2006 conference in Montreal.
Jonathan considers himself a generalist, with particular interest in "glue programming"-- tying together disparate and otherwise mutually agnostic systems. Jonathan holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University.
Last updated 20 Dec 2006