dinsdag, november 28, 2006
Het einde van ablogger
Was zo druk met mijn nieuwe blog dat ik vergeten ben een afscheidspost te componeren. Ik heb ablogger met plezier geschreven, maar het is tijd voor wat nieuws.
Het speuren naar echt nieuwe zaken en vervolgens nog een stukje schrijven over iets waarvan ik vaak niet zo veel afwist was op den duur te zwaar. Vandaar dat je hier ook steeds meer del.icio.us linkjes hebt zien verschijnen. Dat blogt stukken makkelijker.
Ik ben nu een nieuw blog gestart over een andere passie van me: data in gestructureerde, ongestructureerde en gevisualiseerde vorm. Dat is een verademing, omdat mijn onderwerp nu een afgebakend terrein is, itt ablogger dat overal en nergens over ging.
Kom maar eens kijken op Databikkel.
dinsdag, oktober 03, 2006
links for 2006-10-03
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In another innovative move to share its intellectual treasures with the public, the University of California, Berkeley, announced today that it is delivering educational content, including course lectures and symposia, free of charge through Google Video.
maandag, september 25, 2006
links for 2006-09-25
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Een groep softwareontwikkelaars die veel waarde hecht aan privacy, heeft een browser ontwikkeld waarmee internetters anoniem kunnen surfen.
donderdag, september 21, 2006
links for 2006-09-21
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Designed for Series 60 cameraphones, Waymarkr captures images from a phone hanging in a pouch around the user's neck and transmits the images to a Nokia Lifeblog, allowing a sort of stop-motion view from a forward perspective of the user's daily interacti
woensdag, september 20, 2006
links for 2006-09-20
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The co-founder of the Wikipedia has decided to fork the project, creating a new alternative compendium called the Citizendium. The idea is that it will be comprised of community content that is moderated by "expert" editors.
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Chris Anderson in his book, The Long Tail (read Chris’ book), divides the power law distribution curve into only two segments… the hit-driven head (Big Head) and, obviously, the long tail. What’s missing is actually the most important part… the se
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An event like the Big Bang is about as likely as billions of coin tosses all coming up heads. Explaining why that is might take us from empty space to other universes--and through the mirror of time
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Andrew Brown reports on an incident that has exposed how much we divulge to Google & co
woensdag, augustus 30, 2006
links for 2006-08-30
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An Australian biologist has won approval from health authorities to build the region's first cryonics centre for freezing people when they die in the hope of revival in the future
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Organisers of the UK’s “Biobank” project will now begin recruiting the half a million citizens aged between 40 and 69 they need for the project – about 1% of the UK population.
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Brazilian paleontologists have discovered a new giant dinosaur species based on fossilized fragments of the herbivorous reptile that lived 80 million years ago.
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Is there a way to ensure robotic fighter planes do not mistake civilians for enemy soldiers and kill innocent people? Is "system malfunction" a justifiable defence for contravening the Geneva Convention? Should robotic sex dolls resembling children be all
dinsdag, augustus 29, 2006
links for 2006-08-29
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MIT researchers have successfully integrated data mining tools and modern methods of quantum mechanics to design a software which can help predict the crystal structures of materials.
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Dutch researchers are using computers to measure coral structures. Coral specimens are first scanned before being reduced to a skeleton analyzed by a computer to detect various branches. The open source software developed by the researchers provides 3-D i
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Jyri Engestrom and partners have launched Jaiku, an application for Nokia Series 60 Second Edition phones which broadcasts your presence and status to others with the application
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Trend namer and claimer Trendwatching has a useful roundup of the marketing action taking place in many of the growing MMORPGs these days.
maandag, augustus 28, 2006
links for 2006-08-28
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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has set aside over 2 billion yen (US$17.4 million) in its 2007 budget to support the development of intelligent robots that rely on their own decision-making skills in the workplace.
zondag, augustus 27, 2006
newsgames: spelen met het nieuws
De columns van Bas Heijne als game. Goed dat zal er niet van komen, maar games als manier om je te na te laten denken over de toestand in de wereld, zijn in opkomst. Deze zogenaamde nieuws- of documentairegames zijn serious games. Hieronder een aantal voorbeelden, die voornamelijk afkomstig zijn uit de activistische hoek:
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[*]Peacemaker game is een simulatiegame dat een geweldloze oplossing promoot van het palestijns-israelische conflict.
[*]Darfur is Dying is een game die de situatie in Darfur voor het voetlicht wil brengen.
[*]De Mc Donalds videogame maakt inzichtelijk wat het de aarde kost om zo'n hamburger te mogen eten.
[*]In de antiwargame treedt je in de voetsporen van Bush.
[*]A force more powerful is onderdeel van een initiatief dat conflicten in de wereld geweldloos wil oplossen.
[*]Food-force is een spannende game van en over het wereld voedsel programma van de VN.
[*]Paris Riots is een mod(ificatie) van medal of honor en speelt tijdens de sociale onlusten in Frankrijk van vorig jaar.
[*]Escape from Woomera gaat over de misstanden in de detentiekampen van Australië. Netkwesties heeft er een leuke column over.
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In een post van we make money not art staan nog veel meer voorbeelden.
Dus wie weet hebben de krantensites over niet al te lange tijd een newsgaming column ipv de casual games van zylom als het ontwikkelen van spelletjes niet meer zo kostbaar en tijdrovend is. Misschien dat de user generated content van Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express daar nog een rol in gaat spelen.
vrijdag, augustus 25, 2006
links for 2006-08-25
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The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and 454 Life Sciences Corporation, in Branford, Connecticut, have announced an ambitious plan to complete a first draft of the Neandertal genome within the next two years.
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The past, present and future (context awareness and perceptual) of human computer interfaces.
donderdag, augustus 24, 2006
links for 2006-08-24
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TechCrunch points to Dapper, a service that enables non-techies to create an API for any site.
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free learning resources
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O'Reilly's Radar has a brief write up of a "3D live motion video camera that uses LIDAR technology to get a range-finding for every pixel" - you could "scan" an area and put all the 3D data in to just about any application, wow
woensdag, augustus 23, 2006
links for 2006-08-23
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What will the world look like in 2030? Peter Hesseldahl, science communicator at Danfoss Universe, used this question as the starting point for a series of articles
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some entrepreneurs in artificial intelligence (AI) say that Google is not the end of history. Rather, its techniques are a baseline of where we're headed next.
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Known as the Antikythera mechanism and made before the birth of Christ, the instrument was found by sponge divers amid the wreckage of a cargo ship that sunk off the tiny island of Antikythera in 80BC
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The Millennium Project--a global participatory think tank--has released its 10th annual State of the Future report.
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Welcome to the website for Imagining the Tenth Dimension, a book by Rob Bryanton.
dinsdag, augustus 22, 2006
links for 2006-08-22
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What if you could separate the activity of science from the human researchers who conduct it? Automate it, in fact? Imagine creating a bot that does physics experiments and builds an internal model of the world based on those experiments. if they were all
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Thalience is a concept invented by science fiction author Karl Schroeder in his novel Ventus (2000).
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The TransVision 2006 webcast
maandag, augustus 21, 2006
wikipediads
"In plaats van de lage factoren worden door Zwitsal nu uitsluitend factor 30, 40 en 50 geproduceerd. Nu verbranden jaarlijks nog 4 op de 10 kinderen. Met de campagne 'Ik wil 50' hoopt Zwitsal het aantal verbrandingen door de zon te verminderen."Het lijkt een stukje uit een folder van Zwitsal, onderdeel van SaraLee, maar het staat onder 'zonnebrand' van de Wikipedia. Kan gebeuren zou je zeggen ware het niet dat ene eefjeh regelmatig dit soort stukjes in de wikipedia heeft geplaatst bij deodorant, omega 3, vetten en zonnebrand. Hier nog een stukje bij deodorant dat later door een andere moderator is verwijderd:
"Met de gepatenteerde Truspray technologie wordt het milieu minder belast en voelt de spray zachter op de huid. Sanex is de eerste die deze technologie toepast."In het omega 3 stukje verwijst ze naar becel, van Unilever. Ik kon niet achterhalen wie die eefjeh nu is. Dus geen idee of ze dit in opdracht doet of juist de bedoeling heeft om dit soort bedrijven in discrediet te brengen (saralee manipuleert wikipedia!!).
links for 2006-08-20
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Numenta just posted an Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) white paper. HTM is the brain theory of Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee described in their book On Intelligence.
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While the recent inventions of Web 2.0 and User Generated Content (UGC) seem to be radical departures from the computing culture we grew up in, their organic social metaphors are in fact rooted in the beginning of computer science.
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The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, dedicated to ensuring that humanity safely adopts increasingly powerful technologies, including genetics/biotechnology, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technologic
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JURASSIC PARK here we come? Not quite, but we might now be able to sequence the genomes of mammoths and even Neanderthals, thanks to a new way to correct the errors in sequencing ancient DNA that are made because it degrades over time.
zondag, augustus 20, 2006
links for 2006-08-19
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Inspired by the coordination of bird flocks and fish schools, oceanographers will launch this month an entire fleet of undersea robots in Monterey Bay, California.
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The recent history of coral reefs suggests that collapse is not impossible, and indeed, that we may be closer to worldwide collapse than we realize.
zaterdag, augustus 19, 2006
links for 2006-08-18
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The architecture that pervades biological networks gives them an evolutionary edge by allowing them to evolve to perform new functions more rapidly than an alternative network design, according to computer simulations conducted at the University of Chicag
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UA-Games possess the ability to adapt their interface and content to best serve the requirements of a specific gamer under specific gaming conditions.
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This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity.
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If you look at chat systems using avatars such as Second Life and then merge it with Google Earth I think that’s the one to watch. To fly into the cities of the world and have people walking around them as avatars would suddenly make an inhabited virtua
maandag, augustus 07, 2006
links for 2006-08-06
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most of the studies about activity visualization are concerned by social networks/sociograms. See for instance what is done at the Sociable Media Group like Visual Who
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It’s about a tool called “TennisViewer” that aim at enabling coaches, players,and fans a new way to analyze, review, and browse a tennis match; a very interesting cultural practice IMO.
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Trevor Smith describes a new sort of user interface called the “Orbital Browser” meant to enable users to “discover networked services, select a subset of them, connect them, and finally control them in an appropriate manner“. This is about “ser
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Over the last few months, Experientia has been exploring the latest trends in electronic toys and games and gathered the results in a small internal report.
zaterdag, augustus 05, 2006
links for 2006-08-04
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The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.
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We're here to tell you that the reports of the 3D web's death are greatly exaggerated. As evidence, we present three 3D browsers that will use that graphics card for something other than gaming: 3B, Browse3D, and SphereXPlorer.
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the future of ai
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The Symbolic Systems Program and CSLI are pleased to host the Singularity Summit at Stanford, a rare gathering of thinkers to explore the rising impact of science and technology on society. The summit has been organized to further the understanding of a c
donderdag, augustus 03, 2006
links for 2006-08-02
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Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
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Each year, TED hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. The talks they deliver have had had such a great impact, we thought they deserved a wider audience
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A Force More Powerful is the first and only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists and leaders of nonviolent resistance and opposition movements, the game will also educate the media and general public
woensdag, augustus 02, 2006
vrijdag, mei 05, 2006
links for 2006-05-04
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GoshMe – The Web Search Assistant, allows every single person to take advantage of the wide variety of Search Engines and Databases available in the net, and mainly of the amazing amount of specialized ones.
links for 2006-05-04
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GoshMe – The Web Search Assistant, allows every single person to take advantage of the wide variety of Search Engines and Databases available in the net, and mainly of the amazing amount of specialized ones.
donderdag, mei 04, 2006
links for 2006-05-03
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Collectively, the above logos represent nine non-profits, six media outlets, six blogs, two print magazines, two cryonics companies, one AI company, a philosophical journal, an artistic movement, and a music lab. And this is just scratching the surface -
links for 2006-05-03
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Collectively, the above logos represent nine non-profits, six media outlets, six blogs, two print magazines, two cryonics companies, one AI company, a philosophical journal, an artistic movement, and a music lab. And this is just scratching the surface -
woensdag, mei 03, 2006
links for 2006-05-02
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Eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore’s personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a
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A Spime is a location-aware, environment-aware, self-logging, self-documenting, uniquely identified object that flings off data about itself and its environment in great quantities. A universe of Spimes is an informational universe, and it is the use of t
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What is croquet ? it might be the future of computing. As its creators say: "…a new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications. It features a network architecture that supports communication, collabora
links for 2006-05-02
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Eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore’s personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a
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A Spime is a location-aware, environment-aware, self-logging, self-documenting, uniquely identified object that flings off data about itself and its environment in great quantities. A universe of Spimes is an informational universe, and it is the use of t
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What is croquet ? it might be the future of computing. As its creators say: "…a new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications. It features a network architecture that supports communication, collabora
maandag, april 24, 2006
links for 2006-04-23
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a "Brain Computer Interface" (BCI) has been developed. Cerebral electric activity is recorded via the electroencephalogram (EEG): electrodes, attached to the scalp, measure the electric signals of the brain. These signals are amplified and transmitted to
links for 2006-04-23
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a "Brain Computer Interface" (BCI) has been developed. Cerebral electric activity is recorded via the electroencephalogram (EEG): electrodes, attached to the scalp, measure the electric signals of the brain. These signals are amplified and transmitted to
zondag, april 23, 2006
links for 2006-04-22
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The promise of data mining is compelling, and convinces many. But it's wrong. We're not going to find terrorist plots through systems like this, and we're going to waste valuable resources chasing down false alarms. To understand why, we have to look at t
links for 2006-04-22
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The promise of data mining is compelling, and convinces many. But it's wrong. We're not going to find terrorist plots through systems like this, and we're going to waste valuable resources chasing down false alarms. To understand why, we have to look at t
zaterdag, april 22, 2006
woensdag, april 19, 2006
links for 2006-04-18
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If we want to change the world, one of the most powerful things we can do is show how the future could be better. One of the most exciting forces for change these days is the speed with which people are making and sharing tools for doing just that.
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Sharer! connects borrowers and lenders in a same neighbourhood and allows them to earn money by securely renting out objects they seldom use to others in their area.
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A South Korean company developed a coin-size laser video projector module that can fit into portable gadgets such as mobile phones and digital cameras.
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Frontline aired a program on the Tiananmen Square uprising this week showing how China blocks internet searches. Photos searches of Tank Man (Google China & Google English) were compared.
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researchers from Germany and Sweden have developed a new VR environment where the participants believe they're moving while being seated. This approach, which relies on visual and auditory illusions, could lead to commercial low-cost VR simulators in the
dinsdag, april 18, 2006
links for 2006-04-17
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SpotScout’s mission is to be the world’s first en-route space reservation mechanism for public, private and garage parking and to pioneer mobile commerce solutions and technologies placing SpotScout at the forefront of this exciting industry. SpotScou
maandag, april 17, 2006
links for 2006-04-16
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The Alliance Library System and OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) have announced that it will be offering select activities in the virtual reality space Second Life. “We are excited to be offering new outreach programs, events, and services to
dinsdag, april 11, 2006
links for 2006-04-10
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Search engine giant Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student. Sources believe Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with the University of New South Wales in Australia, where Alon is a doctora
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'BT's futurology department has gazed into the future to predict the technological advances that will impact our lives. The timeline encompasses all areas of life influenced by technology developments including artificial intelligence, health and medical,
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We take a large, complicated job and divide it in to friendly, manageable chunks. We call them puzzles, and each one takes only a few seconds to solve. We serve them up to you in the space where that annoying web ad used to be. Without ever leaving the we
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In response to popular demand this Fractal Time software, which has been publicly unavailable for six years, is now available again. This is version 7.00. It is a tool for exploring the theory known as Timewave Zero which was developed by Terence McKenna
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Tactile 3D is a user interface made to browse and organize all your existing files in 3D using shapes and sounds to identify folders and files on your hard drive.
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Ripple is a monetary system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks. By cutting out the institutional middlemen, Ripple is both more community-oriented and more efficient as a means of exchange.
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"Wendy Chun's important new book explores one of the salient questions raised by networked computing: the paradox of furthering the directly opposed aims of surveillance and democracy, or, as her title puts it, control and freedom. Chun's interrogation of
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CNN explores realities the future might bring in the areas of technology, health, entertainment and more.
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they focus on an internal market where any employee can propose that the company acquire a new technology, enter a new business or make an efficiency improvement. These proposals become stocks, complete with ticker symbols, discussion lists and e-mail ale
maandag, april 10, 2006
links for 2006-04-09
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Nederland moet op de kaart gezet worden als een internationale topspeler op het gebied van game research voor trainingssimulatie en entertainment. Het kabinet stelde op 31 maart daartoe 10 miljoen euro uit FES-gelden beschikbaar voor het GATE-onderzoekspr
vrijdag, april 07, 2006
links for 2006-04-06
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CitySnake is a large scale collaborative game that pits citie against each other in a head to head action game. CitySnake is played both on the web and in public through large scale projections and cell phones.
maandag, april 03, 2006
links for 2006-04-02
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In the april 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review (Vol. 84, Issue 4), there is a column by Lawrence Prusak that struck me: “The World Is Round”. The author is actually taking the counter position of Thomas Friedman who claims that ““Several techn
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There are many interesting examples of prediction markets on the Web:
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This is a glimpse of the future of gaming: Ritual Entertainment's upcoming episodic game title SiN Episode displayed through IO2 Technology's Heliodisplay M2.
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Viennese computer scientist Daniel Wagner has figured out a way to show a virtual character on an i-mate SP5 cellphone, and when you move around with the cellphone, it appears that you’re floating around this virtual character in 3D. Other people with c
zondag, april 02, 2006
vrijdag, maart 31, 2006
links for 2006-03-30
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Day one of Game, Set and Match II in Delft has been hugely satisfying.
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the architecture co-laboratory: game set and match II international conference 2006 on computer games, advanced geometries and digital technologies
maandag, maart 27, 2006
links for 2006-03-26
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In the last two decades advances in computing technology, from processing speed to network capacity and the internet, have revolutionized the way scientists work. From sequencing genomes to monitoring the Earth's climate, many recent scientific advances w
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NASA researchers can hear what you're saying, even when you don't make a sound.
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Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could he
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Riya – Face recognition + autotagging. Now in beta.
zondag, maart 26, 2006
links for 2006-03-25
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Though Li Wei used to be a painter, he gave that up a few years back for performance art. These are not retouched photos. Each performance takes place in front of a live audience (I added a photo below to demonstrate).
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Every so often, a huge number of species on Earth are wiped out relatively quickly. The last time a large extinction event occurred, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, two-thirds of large mammals were swept into the dustbin of history. Why? UC Berkeley
woensdag, maart 22, 2006
links for 2006-03-21
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A computer controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated at a major trade fair in Germany. The device could provide a way for paralysed patients to operate computers, or for amputees to operate electronically controlled artificial limbs.
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As I have posted earlier, the MIT quantum computer scientist Seth Lloyd has just published a new work called 'Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos' - a book that explains the origins of how our universe operates as a
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In this document, he describes what he calls "blogjects" or "objects that blog." The three major characteristics of a blogject are its sense of space combined with its ability to track where it has been, its knowledge of its encounters and previous experi
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"Things" in the pervasive Internet, will become first-class citizens with which we will interact and communicate. Things will have to be taken into account as they assume the role of socially relevant actors and strong-willed agents that create social cap
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Using computers to analyze huge quantities of unstructured data is notoriously difficult so this analysis is still often done by humans. But now the EU-funded Parmenides project has developed a new software to look through unstructured data which has been
zondag, maart 19, 2006
links for 2006-03-18
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Powered by a lithium-ion battery, the ACM-R5 is a radio-controlled amphibious robot designed to move like its real world counterpart.
vrijdag, februari 10, 2006
links for 2006-02-09
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This remarkable science tool allows visualization of the mobbing of pathogens and immune reactions, along with other processes such as metabolism and hormonal signaling.
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Web service Mailbigfile emails a link to a large file - up to one gigabyte - to any address you specify.
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In the current issue of Wired, my Institute for the Future colleague Alex Pang and I have a short article about the "End of Cyberpsace." The notion is that the Internet is becoming less of a place we "go to" and more of a layer atop our entire everyday re
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An American archaeological mission discovered a tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings next to the burial place of King Tut, Egyptian antiquities authorities announced Wednesday. An excavation team from the University of Memphis made the find Tuesday 5 metre
zondag, februari 05, 2006
links for 2006-02-04
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Malcolm Gladwell has penned an interesting New Yorker article wherein he uses pit bull breeding as an analogy for profiling criminals and terrorists. His article has some important implications for the employment of data mining technology in profiling.
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This study examines the trends for both metro-scale and campus-scale wireless mesh networking technology on a worldwide basis.
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Siemens is set to launch an augmented reality (AR) football game for mobile phones ahead of this year's World Cup in Germany, reports AVInfo . "The German electronics firm has combined with Austrian petroleum company OMV and the household appliance manuf
zaterdag, februari 04, 2006
links for 2006-02-03
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Quake II AbSIRD is a modification of the standard Quake II rendering engine so that it can create SIRDS instead of normal 3D environments. This means that you can play Quake II just as you normally would (single player, network play, most mods, etc) excep
maandag, januari 16, 2006
links for 2006-01-15
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The annual conference is the first of its kind and aims to focus on the design, development and technology of sex in video games from a U.S. as well as international perspective.
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The MVR is a comprehensive 10-year technology forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, markets, and applications (see ASF's technology roadmapping page). This includes the convergence of networked video games (ex: Xbox Live), virtual worlds (
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As a small subcategory of computer games you find Art Games. They are made by artists as pieces of art. Some have ulterior motives, mainly political, others are merely a playful piece of interaction with the user. What makes them art and not just games?
woensdag, januari 11, 2006
links for 2006-01-10
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Here, in reverse order, is Wired News' take on the biggest scientific and technical discoveries of 2005. Did we miss anything?
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Is this the end for the guidebook? Publishers are reporting huge demand for their newly launched 'podcasts' - audio guides to foreign destinations which you download from the internet onto your iPod or MP3 player
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Have alien life-forms fallen to earth? World-science.net discusses a controversial paper that describes a mysterious 'red rain' that fell on the Indian state of Kerala in 2001. The paper takes a cautious tone, but examines the possibility that the rain ma
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The jawbone from a Siberian woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago could be the key to bringing the long-extinct giants to life again.
dinsdag, januari 10, 2006
Wat is jouw gevaarlijke idee?
Originally uploaded by Felipe.. Edge, het elektronische oord waar wetenschappers en denkers vrijelijk kunnen filosoferen en speculeren over hun vakgebied, heeft haar jaarlijkse vraag bekend gemaakt. Dit jaar is het: [quote]" What's your dangerous idea? The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?"[/quote] Op de site staan 119 antwoorden van mannen en vrouwen die aan de rand van het kennen staan. Ben benieuwd of de NRC net als vorig jaar, de vraag gaat stellen aan een aantal Nederlandse wetenschappers. De Nederlandse antwoorden op de vraag van 2005 "What do you believe even though you cannot prove it?" waren nou niet echt inspirerend.
maandag, januari 09, 2006
Digid: overheid 2.0?
Nooit meer ellendige webformulieren invullen met je adresgegevens, altijd up-to-date adressen van je vriendenkring en geen verhuisberichtjes meer voor emailadres, telefoonnummer of woonadres. Dat belooft VIPcode, een site waar je centraal al je identificerende gegevens bijhoudt, voor jezelf en voor anderen.
Het werkt zeer eenvoudig. Je legt eenmalig je adresgegevens en communicatiegegevens (email, telefoon, skypenr, voipnr, website) vast in ruil voor een code. Die code geef je aan mensen die jouw gegevens mogen inzien. Als zij op hun beurt hun gegevens updaten dan beschik je automatisch over deze nieuwe gegevens, zover je die mag zien.Het lijkt een beetje op de dienst van Plaxo, waarmee je je Outlookagenda en gezamenlijk met de plaxo-deelnemers adressen onderhoudt.
Vipcode gaat nog een stapje verder want ook bedrijven kunnen meedoen. Als je bij een vipcode-geschikte site iets wilt bestellen dan hoef je alleen maar je vipcode af te geven. Daartoe leg je op je persoonlijke vipcodepagina eenmalig bv het registratienummer, een relatienummer, een klantcode, een abonneenummer of het lidmaatschapsnummer vast van het deelnemende bedrijf. Het is niet zo eng als het klinkt want jij bepaalt welke gegevens dat bedrijf mag gebruiken. Leuk idee, maar het wordt pas interessant als er veel mensen aan deelnemen; het netwerk effect. Bij deze een oproep.
Hoe makkelijk wordt het leven van ons, burgers, als de overheid zo'n online dienst zou introduceren? En verdomd, de overheid heeft precies 1 jaar geleden Digid gelanceerd, waarmee dit ook zou kunnen. Digid is het gemeenschappelijk systeem van de overheid waarmee overheidinstellingen de identiteit van hun klanten kunnen verifieren.
Helaas lijkt de ambitie van Digid nogal beperkt. Het is alleen gericht is op contacten tussen overheid en burger. En digid lijkt alleen te dienen als een digitale handtekening. Formuliertjes invullen blijft een plicht van de burger.
Maar dankzij Digid is het straks wel mogelijk om met 1 userid en wachtwoord via internet de belastingaangifte te ondertekenen, een uittreksel uit het bevolkingregister op te vragen of een vergunning aan te vragen. Zie bv alle olineproducten van de gemeente Amsterdam.
Digid is trouwens iets anders dan het burgerservicenummer dat per 1 januari 2006 is ingevoerd. Digid is een dienst dat gebruik maakt van het burgerservicenummer.
Stel nu dat je Vipcode en Digid koppelt? Dan onstaat er iets wat lijkt op een overheid 2.0: Een centrale plek waar iedere burger zijn gegevens onderhoudt en waarvan organisaties en overheidsinstanties, uiteraard met toestemming van de burger, gebruik kunnen maken. De deelnemende sites beschikken dankzij een webservice altijd over de juiste gegevens zonder dat een burger al die gegevens op die sites iedere keer opnieuw weer moeten invullen. Alleen de ontbrekende gegevens voor de te leveren diensten moeten worden ingevuld.
woensdag, januari 04, 2006
links for 2006-01-03
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In the future, our electronic devices will be networked together and all our digital content will be available when we need it. We'll have thus ever more data to sift through.
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retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
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