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Research: Knowledge Management

I have extensive experience architecting and implementing enterprise-class knowledge management environments and the underlying human processes that make them successful.

Campus Information Unification Program

In 2004 I proposed the Campus Information Unification program, which was an effort to unify all of the information silos across the University of Illinois into a single campus-wide knowledge sharing suite that included a global campus calendaring system where public events from individual calendars from campus groups all fed into a single master calendar of all campus events. The University later adopted many of these recommendations, including the calendaring system. Most recently, the campus has begun deploying a centralized staff/faculty directory system building on my earlier work.

Student Innovation at Illinois Portal

In 2004 along with the Campus Information Unification, I also proposed a central database for student-led College of Engineering research projects, to start initially as an archive of College of Engineering Open House exhibits each year. This project finally officially launched in parntership with the University of Illinois Technology Entrepreneur Center in September 2009 and debuted officially in January 2010. The vision of the "Student Innovation at Illinois" Portal is to provide a central database of student innovation at the University of Illinois. Any project lead by students or involving students in a signficant role is eligible to be listed on the site, along with profiles of all of the students involved. Over time, the site will provide detailed biographical entries of Illinois' future innovators and rich detailed descriptions of their innovative projects here at the University.

Content Management Total Productivity Suite

From 2000 to 2005, I was the chief architect and co-lead of an ambitious initiative at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to develop a suite of tools that allowed ordinary non-technical users to publish a wide range of content to the web and for advanced users such as industry to foster greater collaboration and understanding of the material they produced. More than 30 individual invention disclosures went into the overall suite of tools, including key applications such as the Editable Web Browser™ for seamless editing of web pages, Invisibase™ for web-based databases, and Phantasm™ for large-scale multimedia management.

Assorted Whitepapers / Chapters

I've written a wide range of whitepapers and a book chapter on issues of knowledge manangement, and have included a cross-section of them below.

Communication Flows Distributed Knowledge Information and Communicative Fusion Interface Knowledge Quantification / Validation University Case Study