00000cab a22000003a 4500 UP-99796217609422738 Buklod 20231007234246.0 m |o d | ta 100824s xx d | ||r ||||| || DENGII eng Goldstein, H. Collaboration nation [group software]. vol. 40, no. 6 pp. 49-51 As group software assumes a major role in the workplace, will engineers stop talking to each other? Communication is the essence of collaboration, and increasingly communication about semiconductor design is happening over the Internet not only through e-mail and threaded discussion boards, but also through specially designed Web collaboration software that lets engineers work on parts of the same chip simultaneously, whether they are down the hall or across the world. The increasing use of collaborative software has raised concerns that the engineering workplace would suffer from diminished human contact, and that engineers would be transformed into zombie-like automatons, addicted to their workstations. That hasn't happened; workplace experts say that engineers rely as much as ever on face-to-face interactions. Internet. Web collaboration software. Collaboration. Collaborative software. Communication. E-mail. Engineering workplace. Face-to-face interactions. Group software. Human contact. Semiconductor design. Threaded discussion boards. IEEE spectrum 40, 6 (2003). FO UPD DENG-II Article