September 9, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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hould we insure the gene pool rather than the gene?
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It’s about how we all lie online in terms of the way we present ourselves, or rather, that we’ve been lying about ourselves for an awful long time - how we feel, how we feel about our partners and jobs, our height, weight and age, for example - and this hasn’t changed just because technology has speeded up. According to psychologists, we tell between six and 200 lies a day in order to socialise (’I'm fine’), for play and fun, to hide misbehaviour, feel safer, feel private, feel better about the world for ourselves and to try to be more popular. There are lots of good (and bad) reasons to dissemble.
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It rose from the hundreds of millions of dollars in 2001, to $2.5 billion in 2002, when President Bush signed a bill funding the Department of Health and Human Services. New grants and other projects are also underway.
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On January 10, 2002, President George W. Bush signed Bill 107-117, making more than $2.5 billion available to the Department of Health and Human Services “for emergency expenses necessary to support activities related to countering potential biological, disease and chemical threats to civilian populations.”
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De Villepin said it was crucial for countries to pool information from their biotech labs, security agencies and hospitals to better track terrorist threats and know where to turn for help.There were now 117 countries contributing to Interpol's global database of names and photographs of suspected terrorists. The database, which held information on 2 202 people in 2001, now had the names and pictures of more than 8 000 suspects.
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HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.
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The City of Toronto is committed to working with residents and businesses to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. We're pleased to add Zerofootprint to the mix of innovative programs that make us a leader in the fight against climate change and make Toronto the greenest and most liveable city it can be.
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The Lab is dedicated to investigate the potential benefits of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) technologies for a sustainable development. Our aim is to help achieve a more rational use of energy and to make resource consumption more transparent to companies and consumers.
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Sousveillance as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity, typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the Internet.
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Elahi was inspired to document his life like this after being detained and questioned by the FBI at an airport in 2002. He had mistakenly been placed on an FBI terrorist watch-list and was accused of storing explosives in a locker in Florida.
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My current project revolves around using the Arduino and the X10 home automation protocol and hardware. The gist of what I am doing with this project is using the Parallax RFID (found here) tag to identify me and then use X10 protocol/hardware (Part# 1134B from SmartHomes via Amazon) to automate my home.
September 8, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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The use of genetic information in actuarial decision-making is not an entirely objective but an arbitrary product of the current state of research
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Should genetic information be disclosed to insurers?
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he technique involves inserting nanomagnets into monocytes - a type of white blood cell used to carry gene therapy - and injecting the cells into the bloodstream. The researchers then placed a small magnet over the tumour to create a magnetic field and found that this attracted many more monocytes into the tumour.
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Europe spends nearly twice as much as US on nanotech risk research
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Computational neuroscience is an interdisciplinary science that links the diverse fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, electrical engineering, computer science, physics and mathematics.
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The use of biological weapons for terror is ancient. Assyrian politicians (c. 650 B.C.) dumped fungus from rye into their opponents' wells, giving them fatal ergot poisoning. Armies besieging a town relied on increased disease among the defending populace and threw dead animals into water supplies to encourage it. Fourteenth-century Tatars spread bubonic plague by catapulting diseased corpses into towns.
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The region accounted for 44 percent of global nutraceutical sales in 2006, compared to 32 percent for North America and 14 percent for Western Europe.
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It is estimated that global nutraceutical market is valued at over US $ 80 billion. USA holds a significant share (35%) in world nutraceutical market followed by Japan (25%). The nutraceutical market size in European Union is estimated to be US $ 8 billion, a share of 10%
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World Nutraceuticals - Market Research, Market Share, Market Size, Sales, Demand Forecast, Market Leaders, Company Profiles, Industry Trends and Companies including Solae, Cargill, DSM Nutritional Products, ADM Natural Health and Nutrition, and BASF
This study analyzes the $11.7 billion world nutraceutical industry. It presents historical demand data (1995, 2000, 2005) and forecasts to 2010 and 2015 by nutraceutical product (e.g., nutrients, minerals, vitamins, herbal and non-herbal extracts), by world regional market (e.g., Asia/Pacific, Western Europe, North America) and for 36 major national markets.
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Many consumers perceive these products as completely safe because they are often sold with labeling, suggesting that they are all-natural alternatives to prescription drug products that have been approved by FDA for treating ED," she says. "But these products may be laced with potentially hazardous ingredients that aren't noted on the label."
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ndustry sources value the nutraceutical segment in India at roughly $400 million (Rs 1,750 crore) and expect it to grow at approximately 20% per year.
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As a research area, wireless sensor networks have been investigated for number of years, primarily for military purposes. However, there is increasing interest in developing such technology for civilian and commercial applications.
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On World of Warcraft's Elune server, two players recently bought out the entire contents of the Auction House in Ironforge, with the exception of premium-priced high-level weapons and armor (e.g., they bought all the trade goods) and then resold all of what they bought at a higher price.
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Instead "farming" is jargon for those that stay in one area of the game world and repeatedly kill particular monsters just to get at the coveted loot, be it arms or armour, that they drop.
In Warcraft many farmers repeatedly go through the game's "instances" - stand alone dungeons - because the monsters in them are guaranteed to drop rare items.
Stocked up with this loot, the farmers travel to an auction house and flog their gear for gold.
Can you make a real living buying and selling goods which only exist in the virtual world of an online fantasy game?
September 7, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Over 100.000 people have responded to the call of GalaxyZoo to help with the classification of pictures of galaxies. The result of this mass collaboration is that every picture of galaxies that was uploaded on the site was analyzed and rated 30 times reaching high levels of validity.
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Typology of innovation Stone Yamashita
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A century of innovation 3M
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Rap inflects global popular culture from music to fashion. Linux poses a real threat to Microsoft. The Sims is among the most popular computer games ever. These far-flung developments have all been driven by Pro-Ams -- committed, networked amateurs working to professional standards. Pro-Am workers, their networks and movements, will help reshape society in the next two decades.
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TIME Magazine editor Richard Stengel discusses creative capitalism with Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.
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Bill Gates on creative capitalism and the gates foundation
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This one-page summary highlights key facts about the foundation, including grantmaking areas, foundation leaders, locations, and statistics.
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The average billionaire is worth $3.9 billion, $250 million more than last year. The superrich are also becoming younger. The average age is 61, down from 62 last year, thanks in part to big gains in Russia (average age: 46) and China (48).
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This combination puts the pair at the forefront of a new wave of entrepreneurial philanthropists. They are eschewing traditional areas of giving such as the arts in favor of big global social issues, particularly poverty, health and education.
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This list of the 100 wealthiest people is a list of the world's 100 wealthiest people as of February 11, 2008, based on each person's total net worth.
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This is a list of heads of state and government by their net worth, mostly of their liquid assets.
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For this first release, I am showing how I go about making a generic particle emitter. I used Processing v.135 and Karsten Schmidt’s Vec3D library.
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In addition to making your RSS feed available to your visitors for use with their RSS Feed Reader, as a webmaster you may also want to make the same feed available on your website for viewing with a regular web browser.
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a list of great examples of self surveillance
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The Flare Dependency Graph uses a circular graph layout with edge bundling to show which classes import which other classes in the Flare toolkit.
September 1, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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The Flare Dependency Graph uses a circular graph layout with edge bundling to show which classes import which other classes in the Flare toolkit.
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Project Faraday's main objective was to develop exemplar designs to inform and inspire all those involved in renewing or refurbishing their science facilities, particularly those involved in major capital programmes such as Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and Academies.
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Eco-eye real-time electricity monitors literally âkeep an eyeâ on the total amount of electricity coming into your home and constantly display this information in a user-friendly way.
September 1, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Co-author of the 2006 and 2007 Fact Books here. Although PFF does have an agenda, little of that agenda affects how the Fact Book is written. The main goal is to summarize all the free information about the digital economy that's out there and condense it into one file.
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Using mobile technology to deliver mobile microcredit services overcomes previously limiting restrictions of space and time by using existing infrastructure to give even the most impoverished to access financial services.
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âThis six-part, three-hour, BBC TV series aired in 1997. I presented and co-wrote the series; it was directed by James Muncie, with music by Brian Eno. The series was based on my 1994 book, HOW BUILDINGS LEARN: What Happens After Theyâre Built.
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This is a write-up of my diploma project in interaction design from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The project is entitled âAdventures in Urban Computingâ and this weblog post contains a brief project description and a pdf of the diploma report.
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I hope you'll consider joining me on Blog Action Day on October 15 this year. It's a day for bloggers around the world to all discuss one topic to raise awareness where attention is needed. Last year, 20,000 bloggers took part to discuss the environment. This year's topic is poverty, and of course, we should all know by now that data visualization can play a huge role in showing that.
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This IDTechEx report comprehensively analyzes the technologies, players and markets with detailed ten year forecasts, including tag numbers, unit prices and interrogator numbers and prices.
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Welcome to IMA Dashboard, an ongoing effort to measure various aspects of the Museum's performance. To navigate the Dashboard in particular areas, the tabs at the top of the screen drop down to allow for more detail. The goal of the Dashboard is to seek to quantify and report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum observers and to particular interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues, and patrons
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Blog by Jemima at iKnowHow - "Right now, Iâm writing a book for Triarchy Press on the impact of web 2.0 technologies on business leadership." When people ask what itâs actually about, I find myself coming up with a slightly different answer every time: http://www.interactiveknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/in-search-of-leadership-2-0.pdf
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The WWF have just published a report on the UK's water footprint. "This report tells the important but largely unknown story of the water we use and where it comes from.
More importantly, it highlights the impact of the UKâs consumption patterns on water resources across the world. WWFâs intention in publishing this report is to start a debate about how UK-based organisations can help to ensure that critical, and often scarce, water resources are managed wisely."
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nokia community site brings together phones, gps, mapping and health / fitness - with gprs even allows love tracking of where you are on the route - is that so that your partner can make sure you have not collapsed or so that a sales reps movements can be tracked...
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Nokia Sports Tracker is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on S60 smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary. To be able to use application for real, you need Nokia S60 3.0 or 3.1 phone with Bluetooth GPS device or Nokia S60 3.0 or 3.1 phone with integrated GPS.
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current TV's guide to how to make videos
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A place for schools to upload and share videos
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A site collecting how to videos...
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Film: 21st Century Literacy aims to bring greater coherence and consistency to the provision of film education in the UK so children and young people have equal opportunities to watch, understand and make films.
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website for teaching about film media and film making
August 18, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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great collection of science videos
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If you're looking for advice and tips on how to make documentaries, these guides provide useful information on how to plan, shoot and edit your documentary.
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"Great idea to video his experiment. I did this in a teacher's workshop a couple of years ago. We also learned about the scientific principle behind the experiment too"
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How to... Edit. Shaping your film, putting scenes together...
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Edge Futures are a series of five books that explore the impact that climate change will have on different aspects of our lives in the future. They are available to order as individual titles or as a complete set.
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GFN is a free, community-edited, nonprofit ASF initiative to find and connect our planet's 1) foresight professionals, 2) future-oriented specialists, and 3) foresight/futures educators, and use and improve social networks and Web 2.0 tools for advancing (via gonzalo)
May 28, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Here you will find a list of coldfusion related projects being developed within sourceforge.net.
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Java and ColdFusion libraries to lookup country code and language from IP address. It uses a local copy of the WHOIS database to perform fast, accurate lookups of country codes. Useful for log analysis, internationalization, geolocation, etc.
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A compact development framework for Adobe ColdFusion applications, implementing an MVC design pattern for web applications. CFRhino has both an event and extension frameworks allowing it to be fully extended.
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CFRSS is a fast and adaptable Coldfusion 7 CFC used to parse and create RSS. It is able to handle various formats and can be easily modified to handle new ones.
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ColdFusion GIS tool library.
May 24, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Mike Liebhold a veteran technologist now at Silicon Valley’s Institute for the Future, calls it a “3D data arms race”, with some of the biggest technology companies rushing to amass vast libraries of information describing the world in painstaking d
May 22, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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This work reports on the findings of a field study examining the current use practices of large ambient information displays in public settings. - ethnogrphic study of large public displays
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UPS uses GPS to "minimize the number of left turns... reduces idling which in turn lowers fuel consumption... multiply it across 88,0000 vehicles making nearly 15 million deliveries every day during the course of a year, it adds up."
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Janine Benyus describes how biomimicry works, pointing to its origins in early human history. She explains how and why western industrial nations are only now rediscovering the profound implications that biomimicry has for the future of design.
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SoundBite is the quickest and easiest way to create great-sounding playlists in iTunes. Once installed, SoundBite will get to know your music collection and when it's done, you're ready to create playlists to suit your mood.
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Every six months, the Materials Research Society celebrates the most eye-catching images found in the course of their researchers' studies -- celebrating the serendipitous convergence of science and art.
May 11, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture - SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 27, 2008
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DMX512 - DMX512 (Digital MultipleXed) is an agreement over the connection between lighting controllers, dimmers,scrollers, scanners, etc.. base page for workshop info
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Weather RSS feeds in half hour periods.
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Interactive Light - DMX Receiver Documentation (beta)
Tinker.it DMX PWM converter
Code Examples
We're going to be using the Tinker.it DMX shield for arduino to generate DMX signals
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Sixth Framework EC, April 2006 - March 2009. The challenges raised by NBIC convergence call for renewed, informed and democratized knowledge politics. relevant to all concerned about the political, social and ethical implications of emerging technologies.
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Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins
ISBN 0814742815
336 pages
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
April 30, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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data feed from house automation system to twitter - good example of using other peoples notification systems to get your data "out there" - i think there is a how to in Make Feb 2008
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helping ensure that as nanotechnologies advance, possible risks are minimized, public and consumer engagement remains strong + the potential of these new technologies are realized. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars / Pew Charitable Trusts
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WASHINGTON - The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and National Science Foundation will host the Washington, DC, premiere event for the television series “Nanotechnology: The Power of Small”
April 27, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Reducing energy usage, an office case study by Dave Farebrother FEI Environmental Director - pdf of slides from energy institute presentation. A case study from an office in London, UK
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Buildings 2.0 a grand vision of the future of internet-centric buildings. Following two years of industry roundtables, in 2008 BuilConn will host an industry discussion on the subject of green energy, sustainability, and the role that Buildings 2.0
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Interactive institute's Design Research Unit is happy to announce that funding has been granted from STEM (Energimyndigheten/The Swedish Energy Agency) to launch the project 'SWITCH! Energy Ecologies in Everyday Life'....
April 23, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Reading local energy consumption on the cloud. The kW values shows the actual level on consumption in Ruoholahti & Lauttasaari. The % value shows the percentage of 41,000kW, which is the estimated peak consumption for the last week of February 2008.
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The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) - UN statistical databases through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
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Data visualization, the art of using visual thinking to understand complex information, is a growing trend--but it also has an illustrious history.
April 19, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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senZations'08 summer school will be held in Serbia this summer.The school will be supported by the EU funded FP7 Prosense project
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Oct 29-31, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. Techniques, algorithms, architectures, protocols, and user aspects, underlying context-aware smart surroundings, and cooperating intelligent objects, and their applications to provide context-aware smart assistance.
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In the context of convergence, the 17th ICT Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit will address the challenges of Future Ubiquitous Networks based on mobile and wireless communications, complemented with fixed infrastructures. (SENSEI have booth here)
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The 2009-10 Programme for ICT research in EU's FP7 will be presented in detail. Other sources of EU research funding for ICT will also be examined (JTIs CIP) representing more than €2 billion in EU support for ICT research over the next two years.
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The first Future Internet Symposium will take place 28-30 September 2008 in Vienna, Austria. The programme will be international in scope, and focused on research, especially that which crosses the traditional boundaries of our field.
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SENSEI (Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future) is an Integrated Project in the EU's FP7, in the ICT Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures: ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future.
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Swedish industrial company decided to outsource the energy management to a specialist firm, setting the straightforward goals: “Room temperature should be adjusted to a suitable and verified living climate, and what is not needed should be shut off.”
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*The virtual-water content of a product (a commodity, good or service) is the volume of freshwater used to produce the product, measured at the place where the product was actually produced* - useful for other representations of water usage
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Very cool - just works... "Use a simple web form, email participants, visually juggle constraints, presto: the precise opposite of all the meeting scheduling software that no one uses! 100% free; 100% private; no registration; no setup; no hassle."
February 4, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Tigoe: "I’ve been looking for simple ways to graph the data from a sensor attached to a microcontroller lately, because it’s such a necessary activity if you want to look at sensor data over time." very handy
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lecture theme this year is "From Ideation to Innovation," and I used the theme as an opportunity to describe our recent projects, including our work with the Henry Ford, and our products, and the theoretical framework that we're developing to think about
February 2, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos produced on our own time. Great one to explain to your mum what a blog is or social bookmarking.
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We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people-if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.
January 29, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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The Stanford University Bio-X program supports, organizes, and facilitates interdisciplinary research connected to biology, medicine, engineering, information sciences, physics and chemistry.
January 27, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Taking its name from the immersive virtual world imagined by Neal Stephenson in his visionary novel, Snow Crash, the Metaverse Roadmap (MVR) is the first public ten-year forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, applications, markets, and pote
January 26, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Useful site collecting audio from all the main speakers at events such emerging technology, poptech, where2.0 and items such as *interviews with innovators* - one for the ipod commute
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"[presented at] TED conference in 2006. I think he does a good job of explaining how mentally immersive games are becoming. (Reading a book about a war is nothing like being in that war.)" - this 22 yr old drove 25k real and 35k virtual miles-great video
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Google tech talk April 2007. World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling will outline his ideas for SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and 'searchabiliity' to even the most mundane of physical products.
January 23, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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great example of documenting and presenting what you have done. A fair amount of data capture must have been going on through out the year.... maybe some inspiration for our internal end of year investment report.....
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Excellent write up by Dan of his talk at Interesting South, Sydney. If you want to understand why i am measuring *stuff* or what is that i am doing then read this.
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Van der Heide also draws clients into the creative mix. “If you go to the theater, why is it beautiful? It’s the magic of sharing the moment.... interesting interview with Rogier VdH
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This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them.
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...According to Duncan Wilson, who describes himself as a 'futurist' at engineering group and Bop partner Arup, there are commercial benefits to be gained from applying pervasive computing technologies to the design of working environments....
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While there may be a new generation that thinks that email is for old fogies, for many of us, email is a primary online tool, at least as important to us as the web. Many of us no longer file documents or attachments -- we just search for them again in ou
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Have just started to use Xobni Insight and after a week of use the verdict is great - finally a tool that helps me to understand the how I use the application I consistently spend most of my time in. ...[It] is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers
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just arrived via Amazon - looking forward to getting some weekend time to play with this book...
