One or more will do
The School of Design is getting its act together and getting the grad studio a mess of subscriptions to design-related magazines. Our library actually has a pretty decent collection, but it’ll be nice to have have them nearby, borrow them for the weekend, etc. If you had to pick a few of your favorites, what [...]
Robots take over Pittsburgh
If you happen to be in Pittsburgh over the next couple of days, you should definitely check out the Robocup American Open. I’m not nearly as excited about robots as some of the people I work with here, but that’s still pretty damn excited.
Where’s the humanity in social software?
As a few others have pointed out, the current excitement over “social software” is somewhat odd because this group is hardly the first to discover many of the issues they’re tackling. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough, but I see little evidence that they’re building on the work of fields such as computer-supported cooperative work, [...]
DUX vs. Planetwork: Throwdown
Not that I’m anticipating it, but if DUX is no good, I’m definitely going to check out the Planetwork conference, also being held in San Francisco on the same weekend. The list of presenters may be very well be even more impressive: Douglas Engelbart, Brewster Kahle, Kevin Kelly, Mitch Kapor, and with Bruce Sterling, Hunter [...]
David Lu at Ivrea
Not your typical weblog, David Lu’s site is a portfolio of sorts, documenting his various projects during his time at Ivrea. Very cool – both the site and his work. We spend a lot of time documenting process here, but it’s usually gift-wrapped in a more refined presentation format that loses some of the subtleties [...]
The Lab that Fell to Earth
Interesting article in this month’s Wired about the future of the MIT Media Lab. The article discusses funding, recently relevant as I’ve been demoing of my previous audio research to local companies to drum up supporters for continued funding through a regional tech fund. It’s not worth too much detail here, but ask me in [...]
Boxes and Arrows up for a Webby
Just barely a year old and Boxes and Arrows is up for a Webby. Not bad. Congrats from myself and the rest of the alumni staff to the current staff. If we win, I’m buying all of you Bay Area B&Aers drinks when I’m back in San Francisco for DUX. That said, all of the [...]
Realtime Multi-threaded Conversations
Yesterday I played with Hydra, a collaborative text editor that allows several people to write in the same document at the same time. It’s intended for coders using the Extreme Programming approach of coding in pairs. Being the curious sort, I (mis)used it with three other grad students to have a discussion about enchantment and [...]