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Primary Info: Assistant Professor Holman 225 (609) 771-2788 http://www.tcnj.edu/~pulimood/ |
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| Research Interests: Collaborative environments content management systems grid computing |
Research projects: Continued development of CAFE (Collaboration and Facilitation Environment) - CAFE is a content management system designed to support collaborative writing and the editorial process. This system can support the writing process in an undergraduate classroom, or publication of an online news magazine, but was originally designed to support the Interactive Journalism Institute for Middle Schoolers (IJIMS). IJIMS is funded through a three-year grant, Award No. CNS 0739173, from the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is a pilot program intended to increase participation in the computing fields by exposing rising eighth-graders to interactive journalism. The principal investigators (PIs) on the grant are Prof. Ursula Wolz, Computer Science and Interactive Multimedia, Prof. Monisha Pulimood, Computer Science, and Prof. Kim Pearson, English, Journalism and Interactive Multimedia, while Mary Switzer, TCNJ's Gender Equity Specialist, is the program manager. In this research project we are investigating how collaboration occurs in different environments, how we can enhance it through CAFE, and how we can leverage it in undergraduate writing-intensive classes, to support newsletters for organizations, etc. The project will continue through Summer 2010 as funded research. Continued development of the TCNJ GRID computing framework (TGRID) - The College of New Jersey has several computer labs across the campus equipped with state-of-the-art computers for use by students and faculty. There are periods, for example during the night or summer months, when a significant number of these computers are underutilized. We are developing a grid computing framework to enable sharing, selection, and aggregation of resources across the TCNJ campus in a secure manner. We are also investigating various issues of cooperation, like how resources can be described semantically in a meaningful way to more efficiently exploit limited resources by supporting better ways of providing data relevant to the user, etc. |