Welcome to the home page for CASCADE. CASCADE stands for Computer Augmented Support for Collaborative Authoring and Document Editing. The CASCADE research initiative, active from 1996-2000, is a part of a larger effort to study augmentation of human activity. CASCADE itself was a net based collaborative authoring system designed at the theoretical level to support research by PhD Students -- it was the basis of three PhD Dissertations. Pragmatically, it provided a functioning system to support standards development. A couple presentations on teh system provide a flavor of what CASCADE was designed to do.
The finaly release of the CASCADE Server release 36. The final production release of the client was 28 or greater.
The CASCADE project is headed by Michael B. Spring and is housed in the Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh. The project was supported by grants from the Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Director of the ITL, Dr. Shukri Wakid, and Manager of the Visualization and Virtual Reality Group, Dr. Sharon Laskowski, have been most supportive of the development of CASCADE.
The research team was broken into three groups. The Client development team is headed by Bordin Sapsomboon. The server and DBMS development team is headed by Wasu Chaopanon. The usability study and documentation team is headed by Restiani Andriati. Vichita Vathanophas coordinated publications and led the team to work on software support agents for CASCADE.
Other members of the team included Emile Morse, Staale Nerboe, Tore Joergensen, Geir Inge Kristengard, I-Huang Terence Liu, Doug Burke Jace Mogill, Paul Vander, Tom Otway, Tammy Datri, Swantje Willms, Ron Mackley, Sudini Ramesh, Linda Roberts, Jeff Campbell, Bryan Sorrows, Molly Sorrows,Professor Cha jong Kim, Marut Buranarach, Chotiros Prasarn, Kanokporn Chotipal, Greg Schmidt, Yichiun Lin, and Tim Nagle Linda McCune, and many others.
While the project is currently in hiatus, the future of this research thrust involves a redesign as a web services based system that is rich in adadptive systems, navigational aids, agents, and surrogates. We see a furture for the software as an aid in education, standards development, professional services, and otehr areas.
email: CASCADE office
Michael Spring
phone: CASCADE Office: (412) 624-9468
Michael Spring: (412) 624-9429
address: 801 SIS Building,
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
