Alain Désilets
Adresse électronique : <alain DOT desilets AT nrc-cnrc DOT gc DOT ca>
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Alain est un chercheur au Conseil National de Recherche du Canada à Ottawa, qui travaille sur divers aspects des wikis. En particulier, ses travaux récents ont porté sur:
L'utilisabilité des wikis: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48272_e.html
L'utilisation d'un wiki à l'école primaire: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48234_e.html
La traduction collaborative de contenu multilingue sur les sites wikis: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1150000/1149464/p19-desilets.pdf?key1=1149464&key2=0460507511&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
Il préside également le comité organisateur de WikiSym07 qui se déroulera à Montréal en octobre 2007. WikiSym est la seule conférence scientifique internationale dédiée au phénomène wiki. Voir: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/.
Alain is a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, working on various aspects of wikis. His recent work has focused on:
Wiki usability: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48272_e.html
Use of wiki in primary schools for collaborative storytelling: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48234_e.html
Collaborative translation of multilingual wiki content: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1150000/1149464/p19-desilets.pdf?key1=1149464&key2=0460507511&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
He is also conference chair for WikiSym07 which will take place in Montreal in October 2007. WikiSym is the only international scientific conference dedicated to the wiki phenonmenon. See: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/.
Notes:
Real time collaborative translation
The Translation Bureau of Canada is currently developping tools for collaborative tarnslating chats in real time. It would be nice if they made those tools available open source so meetings like this one could leverage the efforts of bilingual attendees in doing real-time translation.