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Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System? 20 Nov 2009 | 09:23 am
cross-posted from www.emergentbydesign.com I've seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to ...
The Future of Collaboration Begins with Visualizing Human Capital 11 Nov 2009 | 06:08 am
How can the power and scope of social networks, combined with human capital metrics, be used to facilitate shared creation and innovation? Category: Business & Work Year: General Tags: social, media,...
Your Time and Mine 31 Oct 2009 | 06:55 am
By Jason M. Vaughn Citizens of the late-2009 Earth Pardon my husky voice. It’s dusty here, or I’ve got a Supercold and the future’s all out of throat lozenges; take your pick. I realize ...
Web-Mediated Learning Found More Effective Than the Traditional Classroom 14 Oct 2009 | 07:38 am
A comprehensive report asserts that web-mediated learning has been found to be more effective than face-to-face learning. New York Times: Over the 12-year span, the report found 99 studies in which t...
Incredible Data Visualization of the Allosphere 8 Oct 2009 | 09:17 am
Check out this stunning video of inventor JoAnn Kuchera-Morinis demonstrating the Allosphere at the last TED conference. The Allosphere is a 3 story high chamber that allows researchers to stand in ...
10 Questions with SIAI President Michael Vassar 11 Jun 2009 | 12:30 pm
Recently appointed Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) President Michael Vassar, a hardcore proponent of science and reason, emphasizes the importance of "human rationality" when ...
Are We Destined to Merge With Our Avatars? 11 Jun 2009 | 09:44 am
Futurist Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute has posted a thought-provoking avatar roadmap detailing an increasingly critical and symbiotic relationship between man and this progeny of ours. Frey ar...
The Singularity Backlash 4 Jun 2009 | 03:53 pm
With a pair of feature films due for release in 2009, Ray Kurzweil is poised to shotgun the Singularity mega-meme to the mainstrean. But how will the message and messenger be received? And what effec...
Researchers Create Model for Synthetic Hydrogen Catalyst Using Low Cost Materials 3 Jun 2009 | 08:49 am
Researchers at the University of Illinois have created a synthetic catalyst model of the active hydrogen producing site of a naturally occuring enzyme based on 'cheap and plentiful building blocks – i...
Wolfram Demos Alpha (VIDEO) 3 May 2009 | 10:34 am
Wondering what all of the Alpha hype is about? Here's a dense 10-minute video snippet of the official Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" unveiling, presented by the mathematician himself,...
