NOTE: Audio from  a public dialogue between researchers and long time collaborators Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at Cornell University is now available.
audio [mp3]
I have to admit that the eight life-sized video projections around a dim room populated by clusters of two or three people at computers flying their […]

This interesting image recognizer is being developed by James Wang at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. You can either upload your own image, or give it an image URL. It analyzes the content of the file, and not the file name.
It seemed to work okay at the demo. […]

Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive gave a great keynote talk at Museums and the Web in San Francisco. He’s completely convinced that the technological issues of archiving everything - texts, images, audio, video, software, etc. - and archiving them forever, are ‘doable.’ The main barriers to doing this are (yup) lack of social, legal, […]

Dr. S. James Gates Jr.
I attended the 2007 Rober Karplus Lecture at NSTA, “Can String Theory be an Educational Force Multiplier,” as a mathphobe who tagged the necessary bases to get through college science and math while focusing on art and literature. I find lately, however, that the clean nature of computation particularly appeals to […]