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Clarence "Skip" Ellis | |
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| Born | Clarence Arthur Ellis 11 May 1943 Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Died | 17 May 2014 Denver, Colorado, US |
| Alma mater | Beloit College University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Groupware, Computer-supported cooperative work, Workflow |
| Institutions | Ashesi University College University of Colorado, Boulder University of Texas, Austin Xerox PARC Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation |
| Thesis | Probabilistic Languages and Automata (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | David E. Muller[1] |
Clarence "Skip" Ellis (May 11, 1943 – May 17, 2014) was an American computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at the CU-Boulder, he was the director of the Collaboration Technology Research Group and a member of the Institute of Cognitive Science. Ellis was the first Black Person to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1969), and the first Black Person to be elected a Fellow of the ACM (1997). Ellis was a pioneer in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Groupware. He and his team at Xerox PARC created OfficeTalk, one of the first groupware systems. Ellis also pioneered operational transformation, which is a set of techniques that enables real-time collaborative editing of documents.[2]
- ^ Clarence Ellis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Ellis, Clarence (2002), "Affective Computing: The Reverse Digital Divide", in Jones, Lee (ed.), Making it on Broken Promises: Leading African American Male Scholars Confront the Culture of Higher Education, Stylus Publishing, pp. 149–159