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Diego Morelli

Computational Knowledge Engine: Wolfram Alpha - 0 views

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    The latest project by Stephen Wolfram is defined as the first "computational knowledge engine", something capable of answering factual question for you. The Wolfram engine is described as "a proprietary system based on fields of knowledge, containing terabytes of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms to represent real-world knowledge as we know it".
Todd Suomela

edublogs: (Not) coping with cognitive overload - 0 views

  • Intrinsic load is the natural load required to complete a task. It can be easy sometimes (driving from home to school) or heavy on others (being an air traffic controller), but we can be trained to cope with it. The Germane level of load is the optimum level we can cope with, where we maximise the load we are under. In lessons and projects we can feel that Germane load as 'flow', where everything's going in our favour, and then... Extraneous load comes along, where we all go wrong, especially when we are communicating information in, say, a presentation. It's when, mid flow, the grass starts getting cut outside. Or when someone has to leave a meeting early. Overload occurs here. The person who missed the earlier part of the meeting, or left early, or the sensation that someone is talking at you when you're in deep conversation with another person opposite, or the kid who doesn't understand where you're at, who isn't with you because they didn't understand the initial point of the project...
Todd Suomela

Cognitive Edge - 0 views

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    Beyond Nostradamus, 7 points on knowledge management in response to Project on National Security Reform
Diego Morelli

Web Evolution & Social Media - 0 views

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    Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks & issues related to libraries. My personal highligths from this work: * The turn from groups to social networks lays the basis for a new social operating system * Being more civically engages on social networks helps building better communities (continue...)
Todd Suomela

How Much Information? - 0 views

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    2003 study by UC Berkeley researchers - Peter Lyman and Hal Varian.
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