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POPSOpensource Robotics: the iCub A European initiative to build an open source robot 'iCub': a robot designed to have the physical and sensory capabilities of a two-and-a-half year old child. Both the hardware and software are open source. More information: http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=FGBBQRPM5BZ44QSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=208808365&printable=true&printable=true
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POPSVisible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization Generally, the hierarchy of a web page is based on distinctions between the content, navigation, and supporting information on a page. Within each of these sections further distinctions can also be made. A general web page hierarchy (from highest to lowest importance) may look like the following: Content * Page title * Subsection title * Embedded links * Supplementary information (captions, etc.) Navigation * Location indicator * Top-level navigation options * Sub-navigation options * Trace route (breadcrumbs) Supporting elements * Site identifier * Site-wide utilities (shopping cart, site map, etc.) * Footer information (privacy policy, contact info, etc.)
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POPSBelgium the most globalised country From the press release: ... According to the KOF Index of Globalization 2008, Belgium and Austria are the world's most globalized countries ... See here for detailed rankings.
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POPSThe Physical World as a Virtual Reality (by Brian Whitworth) The abstract continues: ... It is suggested that whether the world is an objective reality or a virtual reality is a matter for science to resolve. Modern information science can suggest how core physical properties like space, time, light, matter and movement could derive from information processing. Such an approach could reconcile relativity and quantum theories, with the former being how information processing creates space-time, and the latter how it creates energy and matter.
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POPSThe Web That Wasn't a GoogleTechTalk video (1 hour) by Alex Wright, author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
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POPSDemocratizing the Information Revolution. The Technological Proletariat Through the illustrative work of Sugata Mitra, an Indian computer scientist, we will turn to Dewey’s understanding of both inquiry and education – how we think and how we should learn – with an eye towards their potential for the ‘furnishing of proper conditions’ that Dewey speaks of in our first quotation. More strongly, this paper shows that Dewey’s philosophy of inquiry and education can provide the model for a mass computer-literacy initiative along the lines of those already devised by Sugata Mitra. Given the enormous amount of tools and information available on the Internet , the possibilities today for communication and learning as selfeducation are fantastic. It becomes our job, then, to explain precisely how we might allow this ‘technological proletariat’ to gain access to the democratizing possibilities of the ‘Information Revolution.’
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POPSOpen-Source Spying. Thorough article on the US Intelligence agencies, their information technology & possible future innovations.
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