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Luís F. Simões

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com - 4 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...-its-augmented-reality-glasses

google augmented reality

shared by Luís F. Simões on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing.
  • Luís F. Simões on 04 Apr 12
     
    this will be big! check the video. according to one of the related posts, they'll be on sale already by the end of 2012! Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this
  • Ma Ru on 05 Apr 12
     
    > Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this It's sort of hard to think when your brain's gone.
Dario Izzo

Time travellers may be using Twitter and Facebook according to Robert Nemiroff and Tere... - 1 views

metro.co.uk/...ding-no-evidence-of-it-4249580

time travel space

shared by Dario Izzo on 14 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 14 Jan 14
     
    "Time travellers may be using Twitter and Facebook, claim scientists, despite finding no evidence of it" the same can be said for most moders science "big claims with no evidence" :)
LeopoldS

Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder - 3 views

www.networkworld.com/...031411-richard-stallman.html

gadget

shared by LeopoldS on 28 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 28 Feb 14
     
    "I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone," says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. "It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop." he is right once more ...
  • Paul N on 03 Mar 14
     
    I am going to live in the forest! Sadly, while true, there's no way around it these days. On the up-side the information overflow these days exceeds processing speeds. Soon it will become increasingly difficult for NSA or other organizations to find anything in the tons of data they stash away. Like some guy said in a random youtube video I can't find now anymore: "good luck trying to find my personal data when I'm tagged in 5000 pictures of cats!"
LeopoldS

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system | Science | Th... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...er-higgs-boson-academic-system

phy physics publications

shared by LeopoldS on 08 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 08 Dec 13
     
    what an interesting personality ... very symathetic Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today's academic system because he would not be considered "productive" enough.

    The emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, who says he has never sent an email, browsed the internet or even made a mobile phone call, published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work, which identified the mechanism by which subatomic material acquires mass, was published in 1964.

    He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today's academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He said: "It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964."

    Speaking to the Guardian en route to Stockholm to receive the 2013 Nobel prize for science, Higgs, 84, said he would almost certainly have been sacked had he not been nominated for the Nobel in 1980.

    Edinburgh University's authorities then took the view, he later learned, that he "might get a Nobel prize - and if he doesn't we can always get rid of him".

    Higgs said he became "an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises". A message would go around the department saying: "Please give a list of your recent publications." Higgs said: "I would send back a statement: 'None.' "

    By the time he retired in 1996, he was uncomfortable with the new academic culture. "After I retired it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it. It wasn't my way of doing things any more. Today I wouldn't get an academic job. It's as simple as that. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough."

    Higgs revealed that his career had also been jeopardised by his disagreements in the 1960s and 7
  • Thijs Versloot on 10 Dec 13
     
    And the follow up by Nobel prize winner Randy Schekman http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals
  • LeopoldS on 12 Dec 13
     
    interesting one - Luzi will like it :-)
johannessimon81

Big Data challenge at NASA - 2 views

www.nasa.gov/...spitzer20131017.html

technology big_data

shared by johannessimon81 on 19 Oct 13 - No Cached
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  • johannessimon81 on 19 Oct 13
     
    Relevant to our recent discussion on big data at ESA?
  • LeopoldS on 19 Oct 13
     
    relevant yes, though the article gives little information on the "how"
Nicholas Lan

The Big Sleep: How Hibernation Could Overcome Life-Threatening Injury - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...all

BIO hibernation

shared by Nicholas Lan on 06 May 14 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 06 May 14
     
    Human hibernation again. A group in groningen that started 6 years ago and a study under the US army that will do some limited trials with humans apparently.
pacome delva

Metamaterials Probe Changes in Spacetime Structure | Physical Review Focus - 0 views

focus.aps.org/st6

phy metamaterials cosmology

shared by pacome delva on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • At the time of the big bang, our universe may not have had exactly three dimensions of space and one of time, according to some theorists. In the 6 August Physical Review Letters, a team proposes a way to observe the postulated transition to our current universe using so-called metamaterials, structures in which the propagation of light can be precisely controlled. Experiments on such structures, they say, could test predictions that a "big flash" of radiation would accompany changes in the structure of spacetime that may have occurred in the early universe.
pacome delva

Penrose claims to have glimpsed universe before Big Bang - 0 views

physicsworld.com/...44388

phy cosmology

shared by pacome delva on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
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  • According to Penrose and Gurzadyan, these circles allow us to "see through" the Big Bang into the aeon that would have existed beforehand. The circles, they say, are the marks left in our aeon by the spherical ripples of gravitational waves that were generated when black holes collided in the previous aeon.
  • Julian Barbour, a visiting professor of physics at the University of Oxford, says that these circles would be "remarkable if real and sensational if they confirm Penrose's theory". They would, he says, "overthrow the standard inflationary picture", which, he adds, has become widely accepted as scientific fact by many cosmologists. But he believes that the result will be "very controversial" and that other researchers will look at the data very critically. He says there are many disputable aspects to the theory
  • pacome delva on 22 Nov 10
     
    hehe, a nice controversy? or completely overinterpreted results...?
  • LeopoldS on 23 Nov 10
     
    what the heck is this? sounds strange to me ... would I understand the original paper?
pacome delva

Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium - 0 views

www.sciencemag.org/...958

bio genomics ethics

shared by pacome delva on 21 May 10 - Cached
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  • For 15 years, J. Craig Venter has chased a dream: to build a genome from scratch and use it to make synthetic life. Now, he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, say they have realized that dream.
  • "One thing is sure," Boeke says. "Interesting creatures will be bubbling out of the Venter Institute's labs."
  • pacome delva on 21 May 10
     
    wow, a big step in genomics...!
  • Ma Ru on 21 May 10
     
    But isn't it just yet another word abuse? From what I understand, they just synthesised a genome identical to the one of an existing bacteria... while undoubtedly nice work, this is *very* far from "creating life from scratch"... The fact that you are able to copy something, doesn't mean you understand how it works...
  • pacome delva on 27 May 10
     
    well of course we are far from engineering specific functions, and this is just a copy of a function that already existed. However it is quite impressive and the first time it is done. And the challenge here is not really to "copy" the ADN, but the fact that it works... in other words it is not because you copy the ADN identically that the phenotype (traduction of the ADN) will be the same, which is the case in this experiment.
Dario Izzo

New Device May Revolutionize Computer Memory - 2 views

news.ncsu.edu/...wmsfranzondfg

inf

shared by Dario Izzo on 24 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 24 Jan 11
     
    Not a revolution, but certainly a big improvement
Luís F. Simões

Pattern | CLiPS - 2 views

www.clips.ua.ac.be/pattern

AI language text data mining web Python

shared by Luís F. Simões on 02 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language. It bundles tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data visualization (graph networks).
  • Luís F. Simões on 02 Mar 11
     
    Intuitive, well documented, and very powerful. A library to keep an eye on. Check the example Belgian elections, June 13, 2010 - Twitter opinion mining
Kevin de Groote

Gartner Adds Big Data, Gamification, and Internet of Things to Its Hype Cycle - 2 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...ner-adds-big-data-gamifica.php

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  • LeopoldS on 27 Aug 11
     
    nice idea to bring some structure to the list of IT novelties ...
Francesco Biscani

Hubble Snaps Sharpest Image Yet of Jupiter Impact | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...st-image-yet-of-jupiter-impact

celestial mechanics astronomy asteroid

shared by Francesco Biscani on 26 Jul 09 - Cached
  • If whatever hit Jupiter — and astronomers might never know what it was — had instead struck Earth, it would have caused catastrophic damage to human civilization.
  • Francesco Biscani on 26 Jul 09
     
    Thanks for taking the hit for us, big J!
Joris _

Report: Planets will collide in 5 billion years - 0 views

www.sfgate.com/...article.cgi

astrodynamic space planets

shared by Joris _ on 11 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • Mercury, Mars, Venus and Earth to smash into each other, either one at a time or all at once
  • by the end of that same 5 billion years the sun will have burned up its hydrogen and in a cooler state will inflate itself
  • the great "gas giants" of the outer solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are extremely stable in their orbits, so they could remain where they are for a much longer time
  • Joris _ on 11 Jun 09
     
    Interesting, but obviously something is wrong. How the big giants can remain still if the inner planets and the sun vanish at the same time !
ESA ACT

IBM puts its talents to green use - 29 Oct 2007 - BusinessGreen - 0 views

www.businessgreen.com/...solar-power-smart-grids-heart

NRG Sustainability solar

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    interview with the head of the "big greed innovations" - nothing spectacularly new though ...
ESA ACT

Bent Flyvbjerg - 0 views

flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk/index.htm

Managment Organisation Galileo

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    why financial planning of big projects fail (http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/101614/0/0)
ESA ACT

VW-Futurologe: Das Auto-Orakel - Auto - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - 0 views

www.spiegel.de/...0,1518,553097-2,00.html

management StrategicPlanning

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    ACT type at big industry.
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