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L'articolo descrive un progetto realizzato dall'UE per i ricercatori delle scienze biologiche che desiderano condividere dati sensibili nel cloud senza infrangere la legge. La soluzione è una rete di infrastrutture di ricerca che abbia accesso a un set di strumenti progettati appositamente per la condivisione tramite tagging di informazioni in un ambiente protetto, l'European Open Science Cloud.

The Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) research program was a collaboration among scientists from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, France and the UK, that applied new technologies to understanding the environmental basis for movements and behaviors of large pelagic animals in the North Pacific. The goals of the TOPP program, to obtain both biological and oceanographic information for an array of species, required the development of new tools. Additional tags were designed that will expand the range of oceanographic parameters that can be measured.

Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other? That is the focus about this video.Sherry Turkle is a professor, author, consultant, researcher, and licensed clinical psychologist who has spent the last 30 years researching the psychology of people's relationships with technology.

New research shows that rather than being totally devoted to one goal at a time, the human brain can distribute two goals to different hemispheres to keep them both in mind--if it perceives a worthy reward for doing so

Abstract This article examines the controversial issue of whether the intensive use of the Internet affects the human mind. Researchers, such as Nicholas Carr, argue that excessive Internet use harms thinking and reading skills due to shifts in reading strategies and that the overload of information on the Web may not be valued properly.

Google and social network in general are no not making us stupid, The Hardware and Software are only instrument like a pensil, They don't destroy our culture and literature, and the Internet represent a layout of our brains, expanding our collectif awarness possibility. The problem is: Our culture relationship is growing between of information technology availability? Davide Bassignana

Dagli studi di Edwin Hutchins, un interessante progetto di ricerca sui processi cognitivi umani ed animali. L'utilizzo di moderne tecnologie permettono di rilevare e schematizzare i processi di interazione con grandissimo livello di dettaglio e correlazione.

Human beings have expended a great deal of energy and used up a lot of time trying to understand just why we act the way we do. This effort focuses on trying to determine what we are thinking (sometimes if we are thinking). Psychologists, psychiatrists and many others in different walks of life want to know how our brains work, what our "minds" are and how the mind controls and directs our actions. Even with all of this effort the subject remains as much a mystery as it ever was, except for a few interesting and useful bits of information. Much of what we expound on is based on theory - educated guesses about how the human mind works. Only in the past few years has technology allowed research scientists to get behind the curtain, so to speak, and discover more about this fascinating and frustrating subject. Some of the recent success is due to psychotechnology. But just what is this thing called psychotechnology and how can it shed light on a subject that has remained in the dark for so long? First of all, the non-scientist should understand that this is a very general term. It is not limited to a specific set of rules or psychological tools. There are tests and data involved, just as there are tests and data involved in classic psychoanalysis. Some written histories of psychotechnology begin with the mechanical means employed by Ivan Pavlov a century ago. These means were combined with observation and recorded data. He used this combination of tools to answer some of the questions he had about behavior and response to stimuli. In recent years, psychologists have used standard testing to obtain details about individual intelligence, likes, dislikes, habits and so on. The technology used was basic and simple, though computer programs and the Internet have added considerably to psychotechnology. With this new computer help scientists have been able to analyze and theorize more accurately and in more detail.

Articolo sull'importanza dell'intervento di tutoraggio durante le fasi di apprendimento condiviso. E' dimostrato che l'intervento dell'insegnante e la valutazione del lavoro durante l'apprendimento, aumenta sensibilmente la capacità dei singoli studenti di risolvere i problemi posti

Ritengo molto interessante ripercorre attraverso questo lavoro di Andrea D'Alessandro in Progetto Polymath, Politecnico di Torino, i momenti fulcro della storia dell'ipertesto. Imbattendoci in figure straordinarie come Vannevar Bush con il suo fondamentale articolo "As We May Think", Ted Nelson col progetto Xanadu, Douglas Carl Engelbart e il laboratorio di ricerca sulle interfacce utente dei computer, denominato "Augmentation Research Center" (ARC), Tim Berners-Lee e molti altri "pionieri". Prenderemo così coscienza che i concetti, le tecnologie e gli idiomi semantici su cui oggi è fondato il web - e che diamo ormai per scontati - si sono lentamente formati e cristallizzati negli anni grazie agli sforzi di innumerevoli ricercatori.

http://web.mit.edu/STS.035/www/PDFs/think.pdf Questo il link per visionare l'articolo su citato "As We May Think" di Vannevar Bush pubblicato su The Atlantic Monthly nel luglio 1945. Un articolo che ha infervorato l'animo di moltissimi scienziati e ricercatori.

L'articolo evidenzia, attraverso alcuni esempi di ricerche, il fatto che il multitasking in realtà non migliori la produttività, anzi passare da una attività all'altra comporta dei costi che in alcune situazioni possono essere un pericolo. Comprendere i costi del multitasking può aiutare a scegliere strategie realmente più efficaci. Inserisco qui un altro link che rimanda ad un video che completa il discorso. Oggi anche a livello lavorativo molte aziende investono su strategie che evitano il multitasking per avere risultati ottimali. https://it.linkedin.com/learning/fondamenti-della-metodologia-agile/il-costo-del-multitasking