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The Internet of Things (via IBMSocialMedia) “Over the past century but accelerating over the past couple of decades, we have seen the emergence of a kind of global data field. The planet itself – natural systems, human systems, physical objects – have always generated an enormous amount of data, but we didn’t used to be able to hear it, to see it, to capture it. Now we can because all of this stuff is now instrumented. And it’s all interconnected, so now we can actually have access to it. So, in effect, the planet has grown a central nervous system.” Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data (via GoogleDeveloperDay) ” … ‘It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.’ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s words from 1891 remain true today. Researchers in computational linguistics and information retrieval now have a million times more data than was available 30 years ago. This talk explores what this data can do for problems in language understanding, translation, information extraction, and inference, and extrapolates to what more data may bring in the future. “
“People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.”
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Changing the Rules on Overnight Shipping (via Soapdotcom) Featuring KIVA robots. Java 4-Ever Trailer (via willhui) “There is a great gulf between the research community and practice. Moreover, there is often a great gull between what designers do and what industry needs. We believe we know how to do design, but this belief is based more on faith than on data, and this belief reinforces the gulf between the research community and practice. I find that the things we take most for granted are seldom examined or questioned. As a result, it is often our most fundamental beliefs that are apt to be wrong. In this talk, deliberately intended to be controversial.” The consumerism baked into the talk is troubling (“who cares if you need it - you’re going to buy it”) but the hill climbing analogy is an interesting one. Norman claims that in an innovation landscape we can use human centered design and design research methods to move incrementally up to peaks that are local maxima. To try other peaks using a version of random restarts we need radical innovation either from technological insight or “meaning change” (ex: wii makes gaming about family). Don Norman at IIT Design Research Conference 2010 (by IIT Institute of Design)
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Alex AinslieI'm a recent Cornell CS MEng graduate interested in data, computation, design and their intersection. In 2009 I graduated early with an independent BA in Computing, Cognition & Aesthetics and a minor in French. My honors thesis examined the traces our Bluetooth-enabled devices leave behind in public space. I have spent the past three summers as an intern at Google working on mobile maps and gmail, suggest, query refinements, social search, and most recently goggles and mobile local search. I will join Google fulltime in August 2010. This site was born as a personal photo journal during a semester spent abroad in Paris and has evolved into a curated collection of links, text, and images. |
