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A Masters student’s project: “I came up with the idea of automating call queues for phone banks while trying to organize one for myself, it was a total hassle to find everyone’s phone number on a particular committee, so I built CommitteeCaller last sem
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“A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver. Ghostbikes are intended to be memorials for the fallen and reminders to everyone to SHARE THE ROAD with one anot
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There was an interesting radio programme aired today about the influences of the political movements surrounding May ’68 upon and from French philosophy (partic. Ecole Superieur). It features interview excerpts with Badiou, Foucault, Henri-Levi, Ranciere
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“Cultural studies has historically concerned itself with the cultural practices of the everyday and the now. However, as a politically motivated discipline, cultural studies has an ongoing preoccupation with cultural, economic, and political change, and t
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“Cati Vaucelle, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab will present two recent projects developed for the Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group focused on Gesture Object Interfaces.
“At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In
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BBC News journalist swans around PARC looking at ‘cool’ stuff…
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“Vapor is a survey of new art, architecture and design that takes our declining air quality as the subject matter, medium and metaphor for creative work. Often inspired by forms of activism, the works react to the sources of climate change through the use
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“By anticipatory governance, we mean the ability of a variety of stakeholders and the lay-public to prepare for the issues that NSE may present before those issues are manifest or reified in particular technologies.”
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Richard Donahue’s personal site
links for 2008-04-10
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The blur between future fictions popularised as such and those expounded as forecasts or predictions is a tricky space to navigate, as illustrated by an interview between ‘SF Signal’ and Prof. Michio Kaku
links for 2008-04-09
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“More than 1,000 youngsters are taking part in the two-year study into their physical activity and eating behaviour. Global Positioning System (GPS) watches and waist monitors are worn to measure their movements to and from school.”
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“The Digital Geographics Group at Microsoft Research India seeks to further the state-of-the-art in the representation, analysis, and visualization of digitized geographic information. As location-aware technologies such as GPS and geographic information
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Microsoft’s ubicomp research page (apparently)
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“Every object has a story to tell, and some of those stories are pretty important… the labels on objects only tell a part of that story”
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The Microsoft Community Technologies Group, which aims:
“To collect, measure, map, and explore data about social cyberspaces focusing on conversation and discussion environments.”
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“Origami is a code name for a small project with big plans. Our team wants to make Ultra-Mobile PCs a device you won’t leave home without, but we need your help…”
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Commentary on the Microsoft “vision of a future health service” video.
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A ‘future vision’ of banking, including ‘magical’ gadgets with all the fantastical bells and whistles one might desire, from Microsoft’s Industry Innovation Group
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“When Brian [Eno] first moved to New York City he found that in New York here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our fo
links for 2008-04-08
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“The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed – al
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An interesting precis of a recent talk given by a PhD candidate positively recounting future aspirations for the web: “The vision of the future described in the interview is beautiful. It’s one of the most clear explanations of the semantic web and what s
links for 2008-04-07
links for 2008-04-04
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“We used the Twitter API to monitor the public feed and capture data on 37,248 tweets over a 24 hour period.” The Web interface is by far the most popular with 56% of postings, then IM 8%, Twhirl 7%, Twitterific 7%, and Text 5%. No data on how this migh
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“We are big fans of a collective licensing solution for the music file-sharing dilemma: music fans pay a few dollars each month in exchange for a blanket license to share and download whatever they like; collecting societies collect the money and divvy it
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“A new study by Canadian research firm Pollara has surfaced data indicating that Malcolm Gladwell’s popular theory about key influencers moving markets may not be valid. Gladwell’s arguments in the 2000 book The Tipping Point had reached levels of cliche
links for 2008-04-03
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“NTT DoCoMo, Japanese mobile operator, has announced the use of a new contact-less payment terminal for taxis…”
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“Millions of children are using social networking websites intended for older users, according to a study by the media regulator, Ofcom.
“Research into internet use has found that, among children with internet access, more than a quarter of eight to 11
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“Even the most outlandish science fiction could become fact, says professor Michio Kaku, of City University in New York” … “Einstein gave hope to scientists chasing the most outlandish theories when he famously declared: “If at first, the idea is not ab
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“By 2020 the terms ‘interface’ and ‘user’ will be obsolete as computers merge ever closer with humans. It is one of the predictions in a Microsoft-backed report drawn from the discussions of 45 academics from the fields of computing, science, sociology an
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‘Computer technologies are not neutral – they are laden with human, cultural and social values. We need to define a new agenda for human-computer interaction in the 21st century – one that anticipates and shapes the impact of technology rather than s
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“Martin Heidegger’s work is pivotal in the history of modern European philosophy. The New Heidegger presents a comprehensive and stimulating overview of, and introduction to, the work of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of our ti
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UC Irvine’s Lab for Ubiquitous Computing
links for 2008-04-02
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“Some people are nervous about trailing digital bread crumbs behind them. Sandy Pentland, however, revels in it. In fact, the MIT professor of media arts and sciences would like to see phones collect even more information about their users, recording ever
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The announcement last November of an “invisibility shield,” created by David R. Smith of Duke “University and colleagues, inevitably set the media buzzing with talk of H. G. Wells’s invisible man and Star Trek’s Romulans… It was arguably the most dramat
links for 2008-03-31
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A good discussion around the issues of designing an API/platform approach for encouraging participation in the development of your services – excerpts from interviews with key figures at Yahoo and Google, particularly with ref. to OpenSocial
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“…this year’s Arse Elektronika stands under the motto “future” — and the ways in which the present sees itself reflected in it. Maintaining a broadened perspective on technical development and technology while also putting special emphasis on its socia
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(tags: technology mod)