This looks like a very innovative online research tool.
Research any topic with an interactive concept map, that you can customize and share
Nik Peachey: instaGrok.com
IO ToolsStephen E. Arnold: Jeff Bezos & The Washington Post — Newspaper of Record? Barf.
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The New Real Journalism: Bezos a WaPo to the Gray Lady
I read “Jeff Bezos Says The Washington Post’s Goal Is to Become the New Paper of Record.” As Jack Benny used to say when someone mentioned $1 million, “Yipes.”
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Ty Simpson: India All In On Smart Cities
03 India, Advanced Cyber/IO
India’s Smart City vision is part of a larger agenda of creating Industrial Corridors between India’s big metropolitan cities in India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision “Digital India,” has set an ambitious plan to build 100 smart cities across the country. Modi in his speech quoted, “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks. They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on availability of optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure.”
Mark Kirshner: Fingerprints Replicated
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German Hacker Replicates German Defense Minister's Fingerprints from Photo!
A short while ago, I posted an article titled “The Biometric Authentication Conumdrum“. In that article, I pointed out that biometrics may have problems that were unanticipated by the security professionals advocating for them…
Nik Peachey: Free Interactive Timeline Creation
IO ToolsGreat tool for news or history projects with students. Also a great palce to find simple engaging content.
HSTRY is a free digital learning tool which promotes collaboration and engagement in the classroom.
Gabriele Bammer: Global Research Council Seeks to Focus on Inter-, Multi-, Trans- Cross-, Post-Disciplinary Endeavors
Advanced Cyber/IO
In a recent special issue of the journal Nature on interdisciplinarity (17 September 2015, p313-315), Rick Rylance . . . introduced a current project of the Global Research Council, which is comprised of the heads of science and engineering funding agencies from around the world. The Global Research Council has selected interdisciplinarity as one of its two annual themes for an in-depth report, debate and statement between now and mid-2016.
Mei Lin Fung: People-Centered Internet
Advanced Cyber/IO
People from across the world met for a day and a half in October 2015, to consider:
- What would it mean to have a truly “People-Centered Internet”?
- What can we do to get there?
We identified desirable properties for a People-Centered Internet, and interventions that could lead to their realization. Read on for a summary of our discussion. If you are interested in following or participating in this work, let us know.
