This more belongs on an RelatedPeople page, or RelatedInstitutes, but I want to point out that University of California at Irvine may be a focus for collaboration-related technologies:

* Check out UCI ISR's [http://www.isr.uci.edu/events/Research-Forum-2004/ research forum], especially [http://www.isr.uci.edu/events/Research-Forum-2004/posters-demos.html posters and demos]
* [http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Ecorps/ Interactive and Collaborative Technologies] division
* Many people there involved in the [http://www.ics.uci.edu/IRUS/twist/wisen98/ 1998 Workshop on Internet Scale Event Notification]
* Jim Whitehead, one of the WebDAV guys and now a prof. at UC Santa Cruz, was a phD student at Irvine under Richard Taylor

-- BayleShanks

See also a [http://netzwissenschaft.org/wiss1.htm list] of people working in areas related to Meatball.

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