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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.
Sophocles
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read this new study summary from Pew Internet Research on How Hyperconnectivity Affects Young People
Research from DISQUS: Pseudonyms Drive Communities!!
61% of comments by Identity!
Great data to support a long held notion of mine.
Violent video games were associated with reduced activity in regions of the brain involved in attention, inhibition, and monitoring of emotions, Dr. Vincent P. Mathews, of Indiana University reported.
In another non-scientific news, “All of the boys” in a sample third grade classroom in North Carolina play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, as reported by my 9 year old son.
In other related news, my 11 year old thinks he should be able to receive COD: MW3 for a Christmas gift this year.
Sigh….
(via Violent Video Games Alter Brain Activity : Internal Medicine News)
NCSU takes leading role in developing Smart Grid Technology
N.C. State University electrical engineering graduate students work on a first generation “smart transformer” which MIT calls one of the most important technology inventions of 2010. The digital transformer will form the electronic guts of the vaunted Smart Grid, the automated power network that is expected to replace nation’s aging mechanical power grid in the coming decade.
“Think of it as an Internet router for the electrical grid,” said Stephen Cass, special projects editor at MIT’s Technology Review.
via newsobserver.com
New 3D projector system has to literally be seen to be believed.
Apple and I.B.M. Aren’t All That Different - NYTimes.com
Innovation unboxed through research and knowing your market.
IBM App “Creek Watch” to Help Monitor Water Health in California (via IBMLabs)
IBM Research created an iPhone application to help local water boards collect and analyze critical data about water. A form of crowdsourcing called Citizen Science, people hiking or biking passed a creek or stream can snap a photo with their phones, answer a few simple questions about the condition of the water, and instantly send it off to their local water authority.
The app is called Creek Watch and will be available for free in App Store soon. Visit www.creekwatch.org to sign up to be notified when the app is live.
IBM is great at managing and analyzing data, and this is an attempt to improve the way we collect the data through mobile devices, such as iPhone.
Inventor of the Web Gets Backing to Build Web of Data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and prominent researcher Nigel Shadbolt will lead a new British Institute for Web Science with $45 million in government backing. The announcement was not without its critics, but the Institute could have a world-wide impact. The two men collaborated in helping build the excellent data.gov.uk and will now expand upon that work. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said of the move: “We are determined to go further in breaking down the walled garden of Government…This Institute will help place the UK at the cutting edge of research on the Semantic Web and other emerging web and internet technologies.”
