Comment on PressThink: Rosen’s Flying Seminar In The Future of News by Peter...
Though public radio in the States is often part-private in its funding, I would say it is of a very high quality. The content is as respected as fully publicly-funded radio (NPR has the second and...
View ArticleComment on MK12: Quantum of Solace Interface by Peter Organisciak
I’m reminded of Microsoft’s imaginary vision of interfaces in 2019 (http://flowingdata.com/2009/03/02/microsofts-vision-for-2019-is-data-visualization/). Really cool.
View ArticleComment on Hacking as a Way of Knowing – Digital History by matt.ratto
Hi Geoffrey – thanks for the link to the critical making lab site. I really like your last point here, about new technologies opening up space for personal fabrication. I think things like the arduino...
View ArticleComment on Hacking as a Way of Knowing – Digital History by mightywombat
Thanks for this interesting post! I have wondered, aside from my impending EE degree, what the attraction is to electronic devices and whatnot I see sitting on the side of the road. It also explains...
View ArticleComment on IBM Watson: Question Answering for Jeopardy by lvs004
The test for intelligence proposed by Turing comprises an open domain question answering system that can fool a human into thinking that the system is human. Now Turing thought we would have such...
View ArticleComment on New Realities in Higher Education by lvs004
Well in India the recession is having the positive effect of pushing bright youngsters towards a career in teaching. Univs are getting more faculty applicants and potential phd applicants than ever...
View ArticleComment on New Realities in Higher Education by Geoffrey
My sense is that in North America people are being discouraged from getting PhDs as the perception is that there are no jobs.
View ArticleComment on Sperberg-McQueen: Making a Synthesizer Sound like an Oboe by cmsmcq
You write “I can’t help asking if text really does have structure or if it is in the eye of the reader.” How do we tell the difference between those two possibilities?
View ArticleComment on ‘The Demise of Guys’: How video games and porn are ruining a...
Fairly ridiculous. Rather than look at young boys, look at the male American middle class for the last 20 years. Quotas in the workplace mean white males cannot get hired because of minority...
View ArticleComment on War and Peace gets Nookd by Shannon
How bizarre! I can see this making a great interactive art project as well – DIY censorship or Dada-esque randomized editing.
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