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Reference: Open-Ended Semiosis – Symbiotic Intelligence

Group T-3 Fluid Dynamics• Theoretical Division Los Alamos National Laboraory • MS B216 Los Alamos NM 87545 505 667-9094 • 505 665-5926 fax • nlj@lanl.gov These pages contain information from Los Alamos reports: LA-UR 97-1200, 98-489, 98-2227, 98-1150, 98-2549The Symbiotic Intelligence Project Self-Organizing Knowledge on Distributed Networks Driven by Human Interaction From New Frontiers in …

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Review (Guest): The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust

Robert David Steele PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN!,June 24, 2012 B. Tweed DeLions “B.T.” If there’s a single Founding Father of the Open Source movement, Robert D. Steele is it. Everyone else has been playing catchup. And if you don’t know what the Open Source revolution is, you need to read this book. You …

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Review: The Art of Intelligence – Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service

Henry Crumpton 4.0 out of 5 stars As Good as It Gets From an Approved Insider,June 9, 2012 I write this as a former clandestine case officer who spent 30 years across all of the functions of intelligence less MASINT, and went on to write, edit, and publish nine non-fiction books on the craft of …

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Patrick Meier: Big Data Philathropy aka Big Data Commons

Big Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response My colleague Robert Kirkpatrick from Global Pulse has been actively promoting the concept of “data philanthropy” within the context of development. Data philanthropy involves companies sharing proprietary datasets for social good. I believe we urgently need big (social) data philanthropy for humanitarian response as well. Disaster-affected communities are increasingly the source …

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Patrick Meier: Geofeedia Next Generation Crisis Mapping Technology

My colleague Jeannine Lemaire from the Core Team of the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) recently pointed me to Geofeedia, which may very well be the next generation in crisis mapping technology. So I spent over an hour talking with GeoFeedia’s CEO, Phil Harris, to learn more about the platform and discuss potential applications for …

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Patrick Meier: State of the Art in Digital Disease Detection & Mapping

State of the Art in Digital Disease Detection Larry Brilliant’s TED Talk back in 2006 played an important role in catalyzing my own personal interest in humanitarian technology. Larry spoke about the use of natural language processing and computational linguistics for the early detection and early response to epidemics. So it was with tremendous honor and …

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