IBM Watson Research Center

Susanne Hupfer Advisory Software Engineer Contact: research@lotus.com Research Interests: Collaborative Technologies Space-based distributed programming This April Susanne Hupfer joined CUE as an advisory software engineer. Susanne will be working on John Patterson's Jazz team, exploring Collaborative Application Development environments. Prior to coming to Cambridge, she co-founded Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc., of New Haven, Connecticut -- a technology startup that developed software to help users manage their electronic information more easily. While at Mirror Worlds, she was involved in the research and development of products based on the Lifestreams system. Lifestreams, developed at Yale University, was one of the first research prototypes to suggest an alternative for the desktop metaphor. She also did a stint as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Susanne's areas of interest include novel software architectures and interfaces for information management and collaboration, and distributed computing. She has also been very active in issues affecting women in computing. In 1994 she co-founded The Ada Project (TAP), an internationally recognized web site devoted to this topic (http://tap.mills.edu), and she serves on the Association of Computing Machinery Committee (ACM) on the Status of Women in Computing (http://www.acm.org/women). In addition, Susanne is widely published. In recent years, she co-authored the book JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice, and was a regular columnist on Jini and JavaSpaces technologies for Javaworld magazine. For a complete list of her publications, click here: Dissertation, articles, presentations Susanne holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Yale University, where she worked with Dr. David Gelernter as a member of the Linda Research Group, focusing on space-based distributed programming and software for collaboration and coordination. Projects: Jazz