Leadership and Professional Development Student Chapter IEEE CS LEAD IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY Leadership and Professional Development Student Chapter Interested in having a successful career in computing, information technology, computer science, or information systems? What about really learning to think out of the box and becoming an entrepreneurial innovator? Join the IEEE-CS LEAD student chapter to develop your leadership, entrepreneurial, professional, and business acumen by participating in our seminars, workshops, mentoring, networking, and student-led activities. We invite you to our next meeting! Agenda: Computer Science Seminar : Science and Technology Research Teams and the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation IEEE CS LEAD Activity: Discussion of seminar and hands-on activity Funding agencies frequently call for interdisciplinary research that is simultaneously innovative in both science and technology.  Innovation is expected to co-emerge in multiple research areas based on synergistic interactions between diverse researchers. This seminar will provide an overview of interdisciplinary research processes; how those processes can drive innovation; and hypothesized mechanisms for overcoming common barriers. Deana is an interdisciplinary scientist with a Ph.D. in physical geography and a post-Ph.D. graduate certificate in Adult and Organizational Learning. Her recent research focuses on understanding knowledge creation in interdisciplinary collaboration, especially targeting eScience research teams investigating global environmental change issues. Her research also includes understanding collaboration processes as knowledge ecosystems; interdisciplinary teams as distributed cognitive systems; use of spatial metaphors for analysis of shared conceptual spaces; development of models of cross-disciplinary learning and collaboration; and the application of collaboration and semantic technologies to enable interdisciplinary research. Deana is the PI on the NSF funded (Cyberinfrastructure) CI-Team Project: The Virtual Learning Commons: STEM Research Communities Learning about Data Management, Geospatial Informatics, and Scientific Visualization. Presenter: Dr. Deana Pennington Date: Friday, October 7th Time: 1:30pm Place: CS Room 221 Contact: Ivan Gris, igris@miners.utep.edu, IEEE CS LEAD President www.ieeecsleadutep.wordpress.com