About and Mission Statement

The Laboratory for Advanced Collaboration was founded in 2002 as a joint venture between the Laboratório de Engenharia de Software (LES) and Tecgraf of PUC-Rio.

Its main missions are to do applied research and development of innovative middleware tools and services that advance the state of the art in Pervasive Computing, and to qualify human resources for creating innovative software.

SDDL Demo at SBRC 2012

At the 30th Brazilian Symposium for Networks and Distributed Systems (Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes ce Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos - SBRC), held in Ouro Preto (Brazil), from April 30th to May 4th, we presented and ran the first public demo of ContextNet's mobile communication middleware, SDDL, which uses CoreDX DDS.

Project ContextNet mentioned in Twin Oaks' Newsletter

The Laboratory for Advanced Collaboration (LAC) chose to utilize the Twin Oaks Computing CoreDX DDS University Licensing Program for an ongoing project: ContextNet. Project ContextNet aims at enabling communication services for large and wide scale exchanges, including on-line monitoring or coordination of mobile device activities, and information sharing through social networks. These entities may be users of portable devices (e.g. smartphones), vehicles, or moveable gadgets.
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New Adaptive Theme

As the LAC deals with mobile communication, its homepage could not be different: with this new version the page is adaptive. That means the content and menu layout changes according to the size of the screen! So if you access the page from your mobile device (or resize your browser) - tablet or smartphone - the same content will be differently arranged.

Release of the new LAC Homepage

The LAC has history, is modern and has to update itself constantly. The new Homepage will be interely based on HTML5 and Drupal!

Enjoy, Daniel Endler

Laboratory for Advanced Collaboration

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