MEET THE APP AND THE TEAM THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING.

When the founders of Terriblyclever Design LLC were students at Stanford University, they worked with the Associate Vice Provost of Student Affairs and Registrar, Tom Black, to create an application that would engage their campus community in a powerful new way—through their mobile devices.

They introduced their solution, iStanford, in a commercial that aired during the homecoming football game. By the end of the second half, there were already thousands of downloads. Just a few months later, iStanford had 40,000 downloads from the Apple® App Storesm, far more than the number of Stanford students. This rapid adoption demonstrated the impact iStanford had, not only on current students, but also on alumni, parents, sports fans, and the greater Stanford community.





GOING MOBILE UNLEASHES TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL.
SEE IT IN ACTION.

With 75% of the student body carrying smartphones, Northwestern University knew they needed a mobile presence. Once Blackboard helped them go mobile, their entire campus experience was transformed.




GOING MOBILE WAS THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION.
The Medical College of Georgia (MCG) wanted to deliver a highly-integrated, technology-infused curriculum that fit their students' learning styles. Since laptops were too big for their students to carry around in a clinical setting, they knew they needed a solid mobile strategy.

MCG turned to Blackboard Mobile to create a suite of customized medical apps built using the Blackboard Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK), including an OB Wheel and Medical Abbreviations Dictionary to enable learning anytime, anywhere. With information on the go, students are able to respond faster and more effectively. And since customizing is so easy with Blackboard Mobile, MCG can continue to evolve their app suite with new functionality and has even dedicated head count specifically to app development.





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Florida State was the first university in Florida to go mobile with Blackboard Mobile Central. Even before their official launch, FSU saw incredible interest in their app, FSU Mobile. Student response to the news flew through Facebook. The FSU Headlines TV issued a video showcasing the app. Excitement was so widespread among students and the community, FSU Mobile even made the evening news on local station, WCTV.

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Now with their mobile app, Northwestern Mobile, students and faculty have instant access to everything Northwestern. They use the app to find their way around campus, see what events are happening, locate books and resources, and so much more. With Blackboard Mobile, they're always connected, and always "on."

Below, students and administrators, including Harlan Wallach, Media Architect; Mort Rahimi, VP of IT; and Al Cubbage, VP of University Relations, show you just how much farther mobile has taken them.




EVEN THE IT GUYS TURN TO BLACKBOARD.
As a thought-leader in technology, Seton Hall spent more than two years trying to implement their own mobile solution before realizing that doing it on their own would limit their campus reach.

When Blackboard announced the availability of Blackboard Mobile Central, SHU jumped at the opportunity to work with the Blackboard Mobile team. The Blackboard Mobile Central native application suites for iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry and mobile web meant that Seton Hall could have the universal reach they were hoping for.

Today, Seton Hall's Blackboard Mobile Central app, SHUMobile, impacts the whole university community—students, faculty, staff, even alumni and parents. Now anyone with a smartphone can connect with the community, access resources, see what's going on, and experience Seton Hall in a new and engaging way.





Once Loyola Mobile went live in Fall 2010, Loyola University Chicago’s Marketing department created a splash for Loyola Mobile on the home page and the response was overwhelming; in the first semester the Loyola Mobile iPhone app was downloaded over 2,500 times, and averaged 70 to 80 downloads a week as they approached the end of the semester.

Now LUC is poised for the new release of Loyola Mobile, and it has some significant additions for users. For the first time, the Blackboard Mobile Learn app is incorporated into Blackboard Mobile Central for the iPhone and will sit on the springboard along with three other new apps. Mobile users no longer have to do two separate downloads, nor do they have to go to separate locations on their mobile device. Because Blackboard is so widely used at LUC, it is an especially nice convergence of the two applications.

In addition to Blackboard Mobile Learn, LUC also has three new icons on the springboard: Alumni, Emergency, and 8-Ride (users can call for a ride in and around campus). This increases to 12 the total number of applications for the iPhone. Loyola Mobile will be deployed on Android shortly. Because smart phone usage on campus is only going to continue to grow exponentially, Loyola University Chicago is very excited to be able to provide this expanded service, and to be on the leading edge of smart phone technology!

Preliminary Results of a Study of LectureTools and Laptop Use

University of Michigan CRLT Study of LectureTools and Laptop Use

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New Literacies for the 21st Century: Which Opportunities are Worth Seizing?

New Literacies for the 21st Century: Which Opportuntiies are Worth Seizing?

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So, how do we reach students when classes are overcrowded and students are at so many different levels? I believe technology is a tool that can help in this situation. Many have discussed new methodologies such as The Flipped Classroom where student's homework consists of viewing lectures at home so that the 'homework' becomes classwork where the teachers can facilitate a more hands-on model of instruction. Certain software companies have created Learning Management Systems that help to make this an easy transition.

I certainly do not believe that teachers are to blame. In fact, I believe teachers are the thread holding the system together. I do think that the system needs to change, though. Times have changed; however, much in our practice has not. In my opinion, teaching is evolving - and the field of education needs to catch up. Teachers are ready; they simply need the tools and the training to incorporate these new methods into their classrooms.

In closing, I pose a question: are we going to continue to prepare our students to become proficient at shading in bubbles, or are we going to prepare them to be able to use their resources, analyze information, think critically, and connect globally?

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MANU CHAO "Me Llaman Calle"

Me llaman calle
Pisando baldosa
La revoltosa y tan perdida
Me llaman calle
Calle de noche calle de dia
Me llaman calle
Hoy tan cansada
Hoy tan vacía
Como maquinita
Por la gran ciudad

Me llaman calle
Me subo a tu coche
Me llaman calle
De malegria
Calle dolida
Calle cansada
De tanto amar
Voy calle abajo
Voy calle arriba
No me rebajo
Ni por la vida
Me llaman calle
Y ese es mi orgullo
Yo se que un dia llegara

Yo se que un dia
Vendra mi suerte
Un dia me vendra a buscar
A la salida un hombre bueno
Pa to la vida y sin pagar
Mi corazon no es de alquilar

Me llaman calle
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle tristeza
De tanto amar
Me llaman calle
Calle y mas calle

Me llaman calle
La sin futuro
Me llaman calle
La sinsalida
me llaman calle
Calle y mas calle
Las que mujeres
De la vida
Suben pa bajo
bajan pa arriba
Como maquinita
Por la gran ciudad

Me llaman calle
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle tristeza
De tanto amar
Me llaman calle
Calle y mas calle

me llaman siempre
Y a calquier hora
me llaman guapa
Siempre a deshora
Me llaman puta
Tambien princesa
Me llaman calle
Y es mi noblessa
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle perdida
De tanto amar

Me llaman calle
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle tristeza
De tanto amar (x5)



They call me street
tile Walking
The unruly and so lost
They call me street
Street by night Street by day
They call me street
So tired today
So empty today
as little machine
For the big city

They call me street
I climb into your car
They call me street
In Malegria
street hurt
road weary
From time to love
I'm going down the street
I'm going up the street
I do not recess
Not for life
They call me street
And that is my pride
I know one day come

I know one day
My luck will come
One day I will come to look
A good man out
Pa to life without paying
My heart is not renting

Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera

Black Desire - Wind In The Willows




Je n'ai pas peur de la route
Faudrait voir, faut qu'on y goûte
Des méandres au creux des reins
Et tout ira bien

Le vent l'emportera

Ton message à la grande ourse
Et la trajectoire de la course
A l'instantané de velours
Même s'il ne sert à rien

[Refrain] :
Le vent l'emportera
Tout disparaîtra
Le vent nous portera

La caresse et la mitraille
Cette plaie qui nous tiraille
Le palais des autres jours
D'hier et demain

Le vent les portera

Génétique en bandoulière
Des chromosomes dans l'atmosphère
Des taxis pour les galaxies
Et mon tapis volant dis?

[Refrain]

Ce parfum de nos années mortes

I'm not afraid of the road
Would see, we need to taste
Meanders in the small of the back
And all will be well

The wind will prevail

Your message to the Great Bear
And the trajectory of the race
A snapshot of velvet
Although it is useless

[Chorus]
The wind will prevail
all disappear
Wind In The Willows

Caress and scrap
This plague us feels tight
The palace of the other days
Yesterday and tomorrow

The wind will

Genetics shoulder
Chromosomes in the atmosphere
Taxis for the galaxies
And my flying carpet say?

[Chorus]

This perfume of our dead years

Electrical Engineering 141

Electrical Engineering 141 - Lecture 1
Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits




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Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

Not about "computer"; not about "science", either.

How to .........................It's a method. It's a process.

Intel CEO: Era of 'ubiquitous' computing is here

A new era of “ubiquitous computing” is here, presenting huge new opportunities for Intel and developers worldwide, said Intel CEO and president Paul Otellini during the opening keynote of Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday morning.

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Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive

Lee Cronin
With his research group, Lee Cronin is investigating the emergence of complex self-organising chemical systems -- call it inorganic biology


What I'm going to try and do in the next 15 minutes or so is tell you about an idea of how we're going to make matter come alive. Now this may seem a bit ambitious, but when you look at yourself, you look at your hands, you realize that you're alive. So this is a start. Now this quest started four billion years ago on planet Earth. There's been four billion years of organic, biological life. And as an inorganic chemist, my friends and colleagues make this distinction between the organic, living world and the inorganic, dead world. And what I'm going to try and do is plant some ideas about how we can transform inorganic, dead matter into living matter, into inorganic biology.

So before we do that, I want to kind of put biology in its place. And I'm absolutely enthralled by biology. I love to do synthetic biology. I love things that are alive. I love manipulating the infrastructure of biology. But within that infrastructure, we have to remember that the driving force of biology is really coming from evolution. And evolution, although it was established well over 100 years ago by Charles Darwin and a vast number of other people, evolution still is a little bit intangible. And when I talk about Darwinian evolution, I mean one thing and one thing only, and that is survival of the fittest. And so forget about evolution in a kind of metaphysical way. Think about evolution in terms of offspring competing, and some winning.

So bearing that in mind, as a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution? And this seems quite a profound question. And as a chemist, we're not used to profound questions everyday. So when I thought about it, then suddenly I realized that biology gave us the answer. And in fact, the smallest unit of matter that can evolve independently is, in fact, a single cell -- a bacteria.

So this raises three really important questions: What is life? Is biology special? Biologists seem to think so. Is matter evolvable? Now if we answer those questions in reverse order, the third question -- is matter evolvable? -- if we can answer that, then we're going to know how special biology is, and maybe, just maybe, we'll have some idea of what life really is.

So here's some inorganic life. This is a dead crystal, and I'm going to do something to it, and it's going to become alive. And you can see, it's kind of pollinating, germinating, growing. This is an inorganic tube. And all these crystals here under the microscope were dead a few minutes ago, and they look alive. Of course, they're not alive. It's a chemistry experiment where I've made a crystal garden. But when I saw this, I was really fascinated, because it seemed lifelike. And as I pause for a few seconds, have a look at the screen. You can see there's architecture growing, filling the void. And this is dead. So I was positive that, if somehow we can make things mimic life, let's go one step further. Let's see if we can actually make life.

But there's a problem, because up until maybe a decade ago, we were told that life was impossible and that we were the most incredible miracle in the universe. In fact, we were the only people in the universe. Now, that's a bit boring. So as a chemist, I wanted to say, "Hold on. What is going on here? Is life that improbable?" And this is really the question. I think that perhaps the emergence of the first cells was as probable as the emergence of the stars. And in fact, let's take that one step further. Let's say that if the physics of fusion is encoded into the universe, maybe the physics of life is as well. And so the problem with chemists -- and this is a massive advantage as well -- is we like to focus on our elements. In biology, carbon takes center stage. And in a universe where carbon exists and organic biology, then we have all this wonderful diversity of life. In fact, we have such amazing lifeforms that we can manipulate. We're awfully careful in the lab to try and avoid various biohazards.

Well what about matter? If we can make matter alive, would we have a matterhazard? So think, this is a serious question. If your pen could replicate, that would be a bit of a problem. So we have to think differently if we're going to make stuff come alive. And we also have to be aware of the issues. But before we can make life, let's think for a second what life is really characterized by. And forgive the complicated diagram. This is just a collection of pathways in the cell. And the cell is obviously for us a fascinating thing. Synthetic biologists are manipulating it. Chemists are trying to study the molecules to look at disease. And you have all these pathways going on at the same time. You have regulation; information is transcribed; catalysts are made; stuff is happening. But what does a cell do? Well it divides, it competes, it survives. And I think that is where we have to start in terms of thinking about building from our ideas in life.

But what else is life characterized by? Well, I like think of it as a flame in a bottle. and so what we have here is a description of single cells replicating, metabolizing, burning through chemistries. And so we have to understand that if we're going to make artificial life or understand the origin of life, we need to power it somehow. So before we can really start to make life, we have to really think about where it came from. And Darwin himself mused in a letter to a colleague that he thought that life probably emerged in some warm little pond somewhere -- maybe not in Scotland, maybe in Africa, maybe somewhere else. But the real honest answer is, we just don't know, because there is a problem with the origin. Imagine way back four and a half billion years ago, there is a vast chemical soup of stuff. And from this stuff we came.

So when you think about the improbable nature of what I'm going to tell you in the next few minutes, just remember, we came from stuff on planet Earth. And we went through a variety of worlds. The RNA people would talk about the RNA world. We somehow got to proteins and DNA. We then got to the last ancestor. Evolution kicked in -- and that's the cool bit. And here we are. But there's a roadblock that you can't get past. You can decode the genome, you can look back, you can link us all together by a mitochondrial DNA, but we can't get further than the last ancestor, the last visible cell that we could sequence or think back in history. So we don't know how we got here.

So there are two options: intelligent design, direct and indirect -- so God, or my friend. Now talking about E.T. putting us there, or some other life, just pushes the problem further on. I'm not a politician, I'm a scientist. The other thing we need to think about is the emergence of chemical complexity. This seems most likely. So we have some kind of primordial soup. And this one happens to be a good source of all 20 amino acids. And somehow these amino acids are combined, and life begins. But life begins, what does that mean? What is life? What is this stuff of life?

So in the 1950s, Miller-Urey did their fantastic chemical Frankenstein experiment, where they did the equivalent in the chemical world. They took the basic ingredients, put them in a single jar and ignited them and put a lot of voltage through. And they had a look at what was in the soup, and they found amino acids, but nothing came out, there was no cell. So the whole area's been stuck for a while, and it got reignited in the 80s when analytical technologies and computer technologies were coming on.

In my own laboratory, the way we're trying to create inorganic life is by using many different reaction formats. So what we're trying to do is do reactions -- not in one flask, but in tens of flasks, and connect them together, as you can see with this flow system, all these pipes. We can do it microfluidically, we can do it lithographically, we can do it in a 3D printer, we can do it in droplets for colleagues. And the key thing is to have lots of complex chemistry just bubbling away. But that's probably going to end in failure, so we need to be a bit more focused.

And the answer, of course, lies with mice. This is how I remember what I need as a chemist. I say, "Well I want molecules." But I need a metabolism, I need some energy. I need some information, and I need a container. Because if I want evolution, I need containers to compete. So if you have a container, it's like getting in your car. "This is my car, and I'm going to drive around and show off my car." And I imagine you have a similar thing in cellular biology with the emergence of life. So these things together give us evolution, perhaps. And the way to test it in laboratory is to make it minimal.

So what we're going to try and do is come up with an inorganic Lego kit of molecules. And so forgive the molecules on the screen, but these are a very simple kit. There's only maybe three or four different types of building blocks present. And we can aggregate them together and make literally thousands and thousands of really big nano-molecular molecules the same size of DNA and proteins, but there's no carbon in sight. Carbon is bad. And so with this Lego kit, we have the diversity required for complex information storage without DNA. But we need to make some containers. And just a few months ago in my lab, we were able to take these very same molecules and make cells with them. And you can see on the screen a cell being made. And we're now going to put some chemistry inside and do some chemistry in this cell. And all I wanted to show you is we can set up molecules in membranes, in real cells, and then it sets up a kind of molecular Darwinism, a molecular survival of the fittest.

And this movie here shows this competition between molecules. Molecules are competing for stuff. They're all made of the same stuff, but they want their shape to win. They want their shape to persist. And that is the key. If we can somehow encourage these molecules to talk to each other and make the right shapes and compete, they will start to form cells that will replicate and compete. If we manage to do that, forget the molecular detail.

Let's zoom out to what that could mean. So we have this special theory of evolution that applies only to organic biology, to us. If we could get evolution into the material world, then I propose we should have a general theory of evolution. And that's really worth thinking about. Does evolution control the sophistication of matter in the universe? Is there some driving force through evolution that allows matter to compete? So that means we could then start to develop different platforms for exploring this evolution. So you imagine, if we're able to create a self-sustaining artificial life form, not only will this tell us about the origin of life -- that it's possible that the universe doesn't need carbon to be alive; it can use anything -- we can then take it one step further and develop new technologies, because we can then use software control for evolution to code in.

So imagine we make a little cell. We want to put it out in the environment, and we want it to be powered by the Sun. What we do is we involve it in a box with a light on. And we don't use design anymore. We find what works. We should take our inspiration from biology. Biology doesn't care about the design unless it works. So this will reorganize the way we design things. But not only just that, we will start to think about how we can start to develop a symbiotic relationship with biology. Wouldn't it be great if you could take these artificial biological cells and fuse them with biological ones to correct problems that we couldn't really deal with? The real issue in cellular biology is we are never going to understand everything, because it's a multidimensional problem put there by evolution. Evolution cannot be cut apart. You need to somehow find the fitness function. And the profound realization for me is that, if this works, the concept of the selfish gene gets kicked up a level, and we really start talking about selfish matter.

And what does that mean in a universe where we are right now the highest form of stuff? You're sitting on chairs. They're inanimate, they're not alive. But you are made of stuff, and you are using stuff, and you enslave stuff. So using evolution in biology, and in organic biology, for me is quite appealing, quite exciting. And we're really becoming very close to understanding the key steps that makes dead stuff come alive. And again, when you're thinking about how improbable this is, remember, five billion years ago, we were not here, and there was no life. So what will that tell us

about the origin of life and the meaning of life? For perhaps, for me as a chemist, I want to keep away from general terms; I want to think about specifics. So what does it mean about defining life? We really struggle to do this. And I think, if we can make inorganic biology, and we can make matter become evolvable, that will in fact define life. I purpose to you that matter that can evolve is alive, and this gives us the idea of making evolvable matter.

Thank you very much.

(Applause)

Chris Anderson: Just a quick question on timeline. You believe you're going to be successful in this project? When?

Lee Cronin: So many people think that life took millions of years to kick in. We're proposing to do it in just a few hours, once we've set up the right chemistry.

CA: And when do you think that will happen?

LC: Hopefully within the next two years.

CA: That would be a big story. (Laughter) In your own mind, what do you believe the chances are that walking around on some other planet there is non-carbon-based life walking or oozing or something?

LC: I think it's 100 percent. Because the thing is, we are so chauvinistic to biology, if you take away carbon, there's other things that can happen. So the other thing that if we were able to create life that's not based on carbon, maybe we can tell NASA what really to look for. Don't go and look for carbon, go and look for evolvable stuff.

CA: Lee Cronin, good luck. (LC: Thank you very much.)

(Applause)

Raghava KK: Shake up your story

Raghava KK
Raghava KK's paintings and drawings use cartoonish shapes and colors to examine the body, society, our world

Why you should listen to him:

Raghava KK began his career in art as a newspaper cartoonist, and the cartoonist’s bold line -- and dead-on eye for truth -- still powers his art. His work spans painting, sculpture, installation, film and performance, always linked by his challenging opinions on identity, conformity, gender, celebrity, ceremony. (He even views his lavish Indian wedding as a piece of performance art.)
His early work as a painter made a complete break with his cartoon career -- he painted watercolors on canvas using only his hands and feet. Since then, his work has grown to knit together aesthetics from both worlds, as collage and complication play against flat color and precise lines. He shows in galleries and performance spaces around the world. Among his latest work is the adorable children’s book A New Friend for Rudra -- see it in his Flickr set.


Hi everyone. I'm an artist and a dad -- second time around. Thank you. And I want to share with you my latest art project. It's a children's book for the iPad. It's a little quirky and silly. It's called "Pop-It," And it's about the things little kids do with their parents.

(Music)

So this is about potty training -- as most of you, I hope, know. You can tickle the rug. You can make the baby poop. You can do all those fun things. You can burst bubbles. You can draw, as everyone should.

But you know, I have a problem with children's books: I think they're full of propaganda. At least an Indian trying to get one of these American books in Park Slope, forget it. It's not the way I was brought up. So I said, "I'm going to counter this with my own propaganda." If you notice carefully, it's a homosexual couple bringing up a child. You don't like it? Shake it, and you have a lesbian couple. (Laughter) Shake it, and you have a heterosexual couple. You know, I don't even believe in the concept of an ideal family.

I have to tell you about my childhood. I went to this very proper Christian school taught by nuns, fathers, brothers, sisters. Basically, I was brought up to be a good Samaritan, and I am. And I'd go at the end of the day to a traditional Hindu house, which was probably the only Hindu house in a predominantly Islamic neighborhood. Basically, I celebrated every religious function. In fact, when there was a wedding in our neighborhood, all of us would paint our houses for the wedding. I remember we cried profusely when the little goats we played with in the summer became biriani. (Laughter) We all had to fast during Ramadan. It was a very beautiful time.

But I must say, I'll never forget, when I was 13 years old, this happened. Babri Masjid -- one of the most beautiful mosques in India, built by King Babur, I think, in the 16th century -- was demolished by Hindu activists. This caused major riots in my city. And for the first time, I was affected by this communal unrest. My little five year-old kid neighbor comes running in, and he says, "Rags, Rags. You know the Hindus are killing us Muslims. Be careful." I'm like, "Dude, I'm Hindu." (Laughter) He's like, "Huh!"

You know, my work is inspired by events such as this. Even in my gallery shows, I try and revisit historic events like Babri Masjid, distill only its emotional residue and image my own life. Imagine history being taught differently.

Remember that children's book where you shake and the sexuality of the parents change? I have another idea. It's a children's book about Indian independence -- very patriotic. But when you shake it, you get Pakistan's perspective. Shake it again, and you get the British perspective.

(Applause)

You have to separate fact from bias, right. Even my books on children have cute, fuzzy animals. But they're playing geopolitics. They're playing out Israel-Palestine, India-Pakistan. You know, I'm making a very important argument. And my argument [is] that the only way for us to teach creativity is by teaching children perspectives at the earliest stage. After all, children's books are manuals on parenting, so you better give them children's books that teach them perspectives. And conversely, only when you teach perspectives will a child be able to imagine and put themselves in the shoes of someone who is different from them.

I'm making an argument that art and creativity are very essential tools in empathy. You know, I can't promise my child a life without bias -- we're all biased -- but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

Thank you very much.

(Applause)

Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!

Misha Glenny
Journalist Misha Glenny leaves no stone unturned (and no failed state unexamined) in his excavation of criminal globalization

Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth?

Yasheng Huang asks us to rethink our ideas about China and other large emerging economies. Lately he’s been asking, Does democracy hinder or promote economic growth?



Why you should listen to him:
MIT and Fudan University professor Yasheng Huang is an authority on how to get ahead in emerging economies. The China and India Labs he founded at MIT's Sloan School of Management specialize in helping local startups improve their strategies. His book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (2008) chronicles three decades of economic reform in China and documents the critical role that private entrepreneurship played in the Communist nation’s “economic miracle.”

Huang believes that China is moving away from Marxism (public ownership) but not Leninism (ideology of state control) -- and that strong social fundamentals are the key reason for its growth. He is a vocal critic of US foreign policy in China, calling on American leaders to rethink their messages, which often do not resonate with the Chinese public, and to use technology to broaden their reach, overcome stereotypes and quash conspiracy theories.
He says: "For too long the US has not paid attention to an important force in the Chinese economy: the rise of indigenous entrepreneurs. This is in sharp contrast to the US approach in India."

"It’s rare to hear such frank talk from someone born in Beijing, a person who goes on to say that the near-empty skyscrapers in the world’s third-largest economy are “time-bombs” India shouldn’t copy."

Hindustan Times

SightSpace 3D: A SketchUp iPad Viewer with AR

Have you ever wanted to take your SketchUp models on the go? Our friends at the Boulder-based start-up, Limitless Computing, have a solution for you: their recently released SightSpace 3D app allows you to view SketchUp models on the iPad, iPhone, or iPod

The Oral History Program at the Chemical Heritage Foundation

Science is as much about scientists as it is about the experiments they perform. But the experience of science and stories of the lives of scientists are often missing from the annals of history. CHF's Oral History Program helps ensure that the history of modern science is preserved in the words, beliefs, thoughts, and actions of its current practitioners—and not just in scientific publications.

The purpose of our oral history program is to develop and maintain—in accordance with the Oral History Association's guidelines—collections of oral history interviews with women and men who hhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifave contributed to the advancement of scientific knowledge in the 20th and 21st centuries. Our program facilitates and participates in all facets of the conduct and recording of our oral histories, from choosing interviewees, creating question lists, and ensuring the proper use of recording equipment, to processing oral history transcripts and establishing relevant, standardized research materials for scholarly use.

To learn more and browse CHF's oral history collection visit http://www.chemheritage.org/oralhistory

It's Elemental! Hydrogen

Discovering Hydrogen is a DNK Global Studios production that takes you on a journey to discover the element that is hydrogen.

Teagueduino

Teagueduino from Teague Labs on Vimeo.

Teagueduino is an open source electronic board and interface that allows you to realize creative ideas without soldering or knowing how to code, while teaching you the ropes of programming and embedded development (like arduino). Teagueduino is designed to help you discover your inner techno-geek and embrace the awesomeness of making things in realtime — even if you’ve only ever programmed your VCR.

Video Game in a Box from Teague Labs on Vimeo.

Project Kal-El Demo Previews Future of Mobile Gaming

Project Kal-El came into the building, shepherded by a team of engineers from around the world, who had been working around the clock for months. For the uninitiated, the entrance that I’m referring to was by none other than the next generation of our Tegra super chip.
Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC), we demonstrated this little beauty running in an Android tablet. We not only showed that it was alive. We showed it browsing the Web, running games and streaming amazing video. This wasn’t your average amazing video. It was 1440p video content running on a 2560×1600 panel. That will enable mobile devices to output to the highest resolution monitors or tablets equipped with a 10.1-inch display with 300 DPI.

My Job As A Pre-Launch Startup CEO Was To Buy Sandwiches

Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?

Today I'd like to show you the future of the way we make things. I believe that soon our buildings and machines will be self-assembling, replicating and repairing themselves. So I'm going to show you what I believe is the current state of manufacturing, and then compare that to some natural systems.

So in the current state of manufacturing, we have skyscrapers -- two and a half years, 500,000 to a million parts, fairly complex, new and exciting technologies in steel, concrete, glass. We have exciting machines that can take us into space -- five years, 2.5 million parts.

But on the other side, if you look at the natural systems, we have proteins that have two million types, can fold in 10,000 nanoseconds, or DNA with three billion base pairs we can replicate in roughly an hour. So there's all of this complexity in our natural systems, but they're extremely efficient, far more efficient than anything we can build, far more complex than anything we can build. They're far more efficient in terms of energy. They hardly ever make mistakes. And they can repair themselves for longevity.

So there's something super interesting about natural systems. And if we can translate that into our built environment, then there's some exciting potential for the way that we build things. And I think the key to that is self-assembly.

So if we want to utilize self-assembly in our physical environment, I think there's four key factors. The first is that we need to decode all of the complexity of what we want to build -- so our buildings and machines. And we need to decode that into simple sequences -- basically the DNA of how our buildings work. Then we need programmable parts that can take that sequence and use that to fold up, or reconfigure. We need some energy that's going to allow that to activate, allow our parts to be able to fold up from the program. And we need some type of error correction redundancy to guarantee that we have successfully built what we want.

So I'm going to show you a number of projects that my colleagues and I at MIT are working on to achieve this self-assembling future. The first two are the MacroBot and DeciBot. So these projects are large-scale reconfigurable robots -- 8 ft., 12 ft. long proteins. They're embedded with mechanical electrical devices, sensors. You decode what you want to fold up into, into a sequence of angles -- so negative 120, negative 120, 0, 0, 120, negative 120 -- something like that; so a sequence of angles, or turns, and you send that sequence through the string. Each unit takes its message -- so negative 120. It rotates to that, checks if it got there and then passes it to its neighbor.

So these are the brilliant scientists, engineers, designers that worked on this project. And I think it really brings to light: Is this really scalable? I mean, thousands of dollars, lots of man hours made to make this eight-foot robot. Can we really scale this up? Can we really embed robotics into every part? The next one questions that and looks at passive nature, or passively trying to have reconfiguration programmability. But it goes a step further, and it tries to have actual computation. It basically embeds the most fundamental building block of computing, the digital logic gate, directly into your parts.

So this is a NAND gate. You have one tetrahedron which is the gate that's going to do your computing, and you have two input tetrahedrons. One of them is the input from the user, as you're building your bricks. The other one is from the previous brick that was placed. And then it gives you an output in 3D space. So what this means is the user can start plugging in what they want the bricks to do. It computes on what it was doing before and what you said you wanted it to do. And now it starts moving in three-dimensional space -- so up or down. So on the left-hand side, [1,1] input equals 0 output, which goes down. On the right-hand side, [0,0] input is a 1 output, which goes up. And so what that really means is that our structures now contain the blueprints of what we want to build.

So they have all of the information embedded in them of what was constructed. So that means that we can have some form of self-replication. In this case I call it self-guided replication, because your structure contains the exact blueprints. If you have errors, you can replace a part. All the local information is embedded to tell you how to fix it. So you could have something that climbs along and reads it and can output at one to one. It's directly embedded; there's no external instructions.

So the last project I'll show is called Biased Chains, and it's probably the most exciting example that we have right now of passive self-assembly systems. So it takes the reconfigurability and programmability and makes it a completely passive system. So basically you have a chain of elements. Each element is completely identical, and they're biased. So each chain, or each element, wants to turn right or left. So as you assemble the chain, you're basically programming it. You're telling each unit if it should turn right or left. So when you shake the chain, it then folds up into any configuration that you've programmed in -- so in this case, a spiral, or in this case, two cubes next to each other. So you can basically program any three-dimensional shape -- or one-dimensional, two-dimensional -- up into this chain completely passively.

So what does this tell us about the future? I think that it's telling us that there's new possibilities for self-assembly, replication, repair in our physical structures, our buildings, machines. There's new programmability in these parts. And from that you have new possibilities for computing. We'll have spatial computing. Imagine if our buildings, our bridges, machines, all of our bricks could actually compute. That's amazing parallel and distributed computing power, new design possibilities. So it's exciting potential for this. So I think these projects I've showed you are just a tiny step towards this future, if we implement these new technologies for a new self-assembling world.

Thank you.

(Applause)

給台灣的12個新觀念

Understanding Quantum Physics

基礎科學課程 相對論

一、課程簡介、相對論的總覽

國立臺灣大學物理系 高涌泉 教授

2011.2.21　新物111

本堂課講授下列概念：

美哉！相對論
由狹義相對論談起
相對論的總覽（Overview of Relativity）
Michelson-Morley 實驗
光速恆定：C=constant !?
Einstein 的靈感

Video: Japanese University Uses Fish Scales To Develop Stronger Artificial Bones

Ceramics, metallic alloys, bone powder, wood or stem cells are just some of the substances doctors have used to replace or heal broken bones so far. Now a group of researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Professor Junzo Tanaka, has come up with an alternative: fish scales.

According to the professor, using fish scales comes with three advantages (when compared to using collagen from pig skin, for example): it’s safer (viruses don’t migrate from fish to humans), the artificial bones are stronger, and the material converts to bone about two times faster.

German Robot Plays Pool

Thomas Nierhoff, a masters student at the Technische Universität München (TUM) programmed a humanoid robot to play pool. Of course we have seen PR2 play pool in the past but this robot does not need any special accessories to hold the pool cue. As shown in the video below, the robot can be very accurate and even the pool table can be augmented with the software developed for the robot in order to help humans play better.

We are eager to see this new contestant play against PR2, this could sprout a new kind of robotic competition.

Robots Shift Shape and Fits In Your Clothes

As shown in the video, the robot can adapt to take pretty much any shape a human can have by shifting the soft panels that make up its body.

Obama is the Friend of Robots, Announces Robotic Revolution

United States president Barak Obama announced a major manufacturing initiative from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The idea is to create an ”Advanced Manufacturing Partnership” (AMP) that brings together major U.S. manufacturers and top U.S. universities in order to invigorate the local manufacturing activities.


The video above features the full Obama speech at CMU. The video is 22 minutes long, but is filled with interesting information about the current robotic market and nice bits of humor.

Robots Cannot Eat Hamburgers… Yet

The premise of the commercial is that if a robot can not eat or use a product, then it should not make it. Although we know this is just for fun, it is important to point out that robots are commonly involved in producing many foods and consumption goods, so using that reasoning, we would not be able to use or eat much of what is available.

One fun aspect of the commercial is that they posted the making-of the video which is rather interesting to watch.

Robots for Humanity, PR2 Helps Humans in Need

PR2 from Willow Garage is now able to help people with disabilities to perform everyday tasks such as manipulating objects shaving and more. The video below illustrates the scope and the results of the Robots for Humanity project that Willow Garage, the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech, and Henry and Jane Evans are pioneering.

Learn Artificial Intelligence at Stanford for Free

If you ever wanted to learn about AI in a prestigious university, this is your chance. Stanford University is offering its fall Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class I for free for everybody willing to register. All the class contents and lectures will be made available on-line and web students will need to submit assignments and pass tests just are regular students do. They will be also graded at the end of the semester.


Artificial Intelligence is the science of making computer software that reasons about the world around it. Humanoid robots, Google Goggles, self-driving cars, even software that suggests music you might like to hear are all examples of AI. In this class, you will learn how to create this software from two of the leaders in the field. Class begins October 10. Details on the course, including a syllabus are available here.

Swarmanoid, Robot Collaboration At Its Best

Swarm robotics -using several simple collaborating robots to accomplish very complex tasks, instead of using a single very complex robot- is becoming increasingly popular. The Swarmanoid project is a perfect example of what can be achieved by using a swarm of small robots.

As illustrated in the video above, each type of robot concentrates on a single task (e.g. navigating, grasping, or seeing) and combined they can produce emerging behaviours that are more than just the sum of their individual capabilities.

Child Gets Robotic Hand From Mercedes and Touch Bionic

Child Gets Robotic Hand From Mercedes and Touch Bionic
August 18th, 2011

What happens when a 14 year old Formula 1 enthusiast emails Mercedes-Benz asking for a contribution for a new 58 000 $ bionic arm? If Matthew James (from Woking , UK) serves as a reference: he gets it.

Matthew was born missing part of his left arm and hand and is now the owner of a very advanced “iLimb” bionic hand. When he mockingly offered Mercedes-Benz to post sponsor logos on the limb in exchange for financial help, the car manufacturer was touched by the request and actually helped him raise the funds. Then they partnered with Touch Bionic to make a custom fitted robotic hand.

iRobot 110, A Robot You Can Throw

iRobot has been working for some time now on an inexpensive (relatively speaking) military robot that would allow soldiers to explore hard-to-reach areas without risking their lives. You can see the results of their efforts in the video below, the iRobot 110 throwable robot.

As shown in the video above, not only does the robot need to be rugged, it also needs to be light so it can be carried and thrown without requiring too much extra effort from the soldiers.

Documentary about Cyborgs by a Cyborg

The recently released Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game is raising some very interesting questions regarding Cyborgs, bionic implants (or augmentations as they are referred to in the game). The documentary below explores the similarities between the fictitious augmentations and the current state of the art in bionic technology. Not only does this 12 minutes documentary feature some of the most advanced cyborgs out there, it is presented by a cyborg.

CamiApp Lets You Digitize Notes On Paper Notepads With Your Smartphone (Video)

Japanese stationery maker Kokuyo has come up with an easy way to digitize and permanently store what you jot down on paper notepads: all you need is a an iPhone (or soon Android handset), a special app called CamiApp (available for free and in English on the App Store), and notepads made by Kokuyo.

The company says that taking pictures of the notes is enough: CamiApp adjusts the quality through using AR markers or a black frame before it lets you tag, edit, email or store your notes on Evernote or Dropbox (as JPEGs).

Kokuyo is currently preparing an Android version and thinks about exporting their CamiApp-optimized notepads.

This video (in English, shot by Diginfonews in Tokyo) provides more insight:

Hot, Flat, And Widescreen: The Rise Of The Minitabs

Mini Keepon

Carlitos’ Projects: Speech-Controlled Arduino Robot

You may be thinking that making such a robot must be a very complex task. After all, humans take many years before they can understand speech properly. Well, it is not as difficult as you may think and it is definitely lots of fun. The video below illustrates how to make your own speech-controlled Arduino rover.

Heather Knight! She runs Marilyn Monrobot, which creates socially intelligent robot performances and sensor-based electronic art.

The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) dancing to the song "Don't You Evah" by the band Spoon. Keepon and Spoon reunited at WIRED NextFest in LA September 10, 2007 for Creative Commons.

Cast (in order of appearance): Keepon, Hideki Kozima, Jim Eno, Britt Daniel
Keepon Wrangler/Programmer: Marek Michalowski
Executive Producers: Melanie Cornwell, Scott Dadich
Producers: Melanie Cornwell, Zana Woods
Director: Jeff Nichols
Concept by: Melanie Cornwell, Laura Eldeiry, Nancy Miller
Written by: Jeff Nichols, Adam Stone, Chris Walldorf
Director of Photography/Camera Operator: Adam Stone (Mortimer Jones)
Editor: Chris Walldorf (Mortimer Jones)
Graphics and Effects: Joey Beason (Edit at Joes)
Additional Color Correction: Joe Murray (Edit at Joes)
Tokyo Production Managers: Heath Cozens, Sawako Imai

Which Asian language sounds the best in your POV? (Final)

Musculoskeletal Simulation-based Study of Biped Locomotion

Paper Abstract:
Researchers have hypothesized that animal locomotory patterns seen are consistent with the resonant frequencies endowed by their musculoskeletal structures. Further it is posited that systems succeed in minimizing their energy expenditure by moving at this resonant frequency. We choose to systematically study this hypothesis in the specific context of bipedal locomotion.

Researchers have sought to correlate the preferred strike frequency with the resonant frequencies of the model or used indirect measurement such as oxygen consumption, electromyography (EMG) to assess expended effort. In our study, we employed virtual prototyping with a capable musculoskeletal simulation model to study the same hypothesis. We benchmark against the available literature and demonstrate that valuable insights can be obtained that can complement the current knowledge-base in biped locomotion.

*This paper won the "Best Poster Award" at the conference.

Ptolemy and Homer, or the power of epicycles.

Keepon on The Works

The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) dancing to the song "Don't You Evah" by the band Spoon. Keepon and Spoon reunited at WIRED NextFest in LA September 10, 2007 for Creative Commons.

Cast (in order of appearance): Keepon, Hideki Kozima, Jim Eno, Britt Daniel
Keepon Wrangler/Programmer: Marek Michalowski
Executive Producers: Melanie Cornwell, Scott Dadich
Producers: Melanie Cornwell, Zana Woods
Director: Jeff Nichols
Concept by: Melanie Cornwell, Laura Eldeiry, Nancy Miller
Written by: Jeff Nichols, Adam Stone, Chris Walldorf
Director of Photography/Camera Operator: Adam Stone (Mortimer Jones)
Editor: Chris Walldorf (Mortimer Jones)
Graphics and Effects: Joey Beason (Edit at Joes)
Additional Color Correction: Joe Murray (Edit at Joes)
Tokyo Production Managers: Heath Cozens, Sawako Imai

Keepon robot

We've been having a torrid affair with the Keepon robot since 2007, his simple yellow shape and unflappable adherence to the beat capturing our hearts. But, sadly, this has been an unrequited love, as the little guy has only been available to research institutions (and, apparently, rock bands) at the tear-inducing price of $30,000. Now there's a version we can finally bring home to mother, the $40 My Keepon. It's being dubbed a "toy," so we have our doubts that it can bust the same sort of moves its Pro predecessor puts down (embedded after the break), but we're certainly going to be first in line to find out when they hit stores. No, we don't know when that is just yet, but we're told all will be revealed on February 14th. Yes, Valentine's Day.

Barobo iMobot teddy bear learns from your commands, will definitely make varsity (video)

Barobo's iMobot modular robotics system just launched earlier this year, and the folks behind it just started shipping the first kits last month. Turns out, they were on hand here at NEXT Aarhus with a bona fide demo, and we couldn't resist a quick demo. The actual kit is being hawked primarily to universities -- we're told that each $2,000 robot can be programmed to do just about anything, and if you stock up on a couple, you can produce full-on humanoids, a camera-toting rescue snake or something else that'll undoubtedly take over the world in just a few centuries. Each robotic piece is equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth, and aside from mounting points used for connecting family members, there's a couple of sensor ports that allow for rangefinders and proximity modules to be stacked on as well.

The real show, however, happened when Elmo's long-lost cousin made an appearance. We're told that the creature is strictly a prototype using miniaturized versions of the robotic pieces that are on sale now. Those minis aren't up for order per se, but cutting the right check might land you with more than a smile. As you'll see in the video past the break, the software program written for the bear allowed it to "learn" movements that were dictated by the human holding it, and once the latest cheer was burned into its cotton-filled brain, a simple button press played things out in fantastical fashion. Have a look. You won't be disappointed.

Video: “Der Kritzler,” An Automatic Scribbling Machine

Der Kritzler - scribbling "The Chancellor" from tinkerlog on Vimeo.

An automatic scribbling machine sounds less than useful, admittedly, but it’s really just the style of line created by this motorized drawing machine. It’s reminiscent of ASCII art, in which heavier characters are used to create darker tones; in this case, the more jiggle added to the drawing platform, the more ink is put on the drawing surface. It’s kind of mesmerizing.

Der Kritzler - scribbling "TFOE" from tinkerlog on Vimeo.

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SOUP KITCHENS IN U.S. RISE AS ECONOMY COLLAPSES?

99 weeks is 5 shy of TWO YEARS. These people aren't unemployed. They are UNEMPLOYABLE.

They lack marketable skills to sell to those who buy skills. In short, their skills set is worthless.

They need to train themselves for work that is available and growing or the need to resign themselves to menial labor jobs, which are jobs that do not need skills.

Millenials: A Disappointed Generation?

Members of Generation Y are starting their careers in perhaps the worst job market since the Great Depression. Experts say the experience creates both immediate and long-term negative impacts, including lower salaries now and in the future. While their reduced spending power will not have a lasting drag on the U.S. economy -- one cohort with reduced consumption does not hold tremendous weight amidst a very broad population, economists say -- it does have significant repercussions for how these young people conduct their adult lives and careers.

How iPads are helping build Disney World expansion

Samsung Unveils Dual-Core Galaxy Tab 7.7 And 5.3-Inch Galaxy Note

Samsung Unveils Dual-Core Galaxy Tab 7.7 And 5.3-Inch Galaxy Note




Samsung understands this, and has thus tried to build a tablet for just about any size pocket or backpack you may own. We all know about the GalTab 10.1 and 8.9, but today even smaller models join the pack. At the IFA conference in Berlin, Samsung today announced the Galaxy Tab 7.7 and the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note.

Reinventing the lead-acid battery to help power the developing world

Kids learn to make their own mobile apps at summer camp

At ID Tech Camp, kids as young as 7 years old can start learning how to program their own smartphone apps. SmartPlanet correspondent Priya David Clemens meets some kids who just might be the Silicon Valley giants of tomorrow.

2011 IBM Global Utility Consumer Survey - What do consumers really think about energy?

100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON

100 years of East London style in 100 seconds. Sept 13th 1911 - Sept 13th 2011.

Back to the Start

Coldplay's haunting classic 'The Scientist' is performed by country music legend Willie Nelson for the soundtrack of the short film entitled, "Back to the Start." The film, by film-maker Johnny Kelly, depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future. Both the film and the soundtrack were commissioned by Chipotle to emphasize the importance of developing a sustainable food system.

Timelapse and Motion Control

Redwoods - Behind The Scenes from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

2010 HDDSLR Gear Video from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

2010 HDDSLR Gear Video from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

What are CineSkates?

Oh Dear… The Viking has landed… and, uh, the Astronaut!

Behind the Glass Part 1: An Intro to Lenses from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo.

Eric Kessler’s ‘Time Escape’

Time Escape from Eric Kessler on Vimeo.

With some of the top names in the industry and timelapse photography, ‘Time Escape’ is a quick compendium of the work the group did while shooting timelapse for Tom Lowe’s upcoming TimeScapes film. Simply put, the group shot some of the most stunning timelapse in some of the most stunning places on Earth.

Kessler TimeFest 2011: Behind The Scenes from Kessler Crane on Vimeo.

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We learn about image-making and storytelling from the perspective of a photographer and filmmaker.

Guest: Vincent Laforet- Filmmaker- DGA Director & DP, Photographer, Producer, Blogger and Tech Geek.

Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/photo.

Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast.

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Vincent Laforet — New York & Los Angeles

2010 HDDSLR Gear Video from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

Hundreds Arrested In Sustained Tar Sands Protests At White House

August 30, 2011

Hundreds Arrested In Sustained Tar Sands Protests At White House

Protests demand Obama use veto power to halt proposed expansion of Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico

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