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Jack Park

ECOSPACE IP - eProfessional Collaborative Workspace - 0 views

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  • Jack Park on 01 Sep 08
     
    ECOSPACE pursues the vision that by 2012 every Professional in Europe is empowered for seamless, dynamic and creative collaboration across teams, organisations and communities through a personalised collaborative working environment. ECOSPACE contributes to this vision through 4 main objectives: * The definition of innovative work paradigms through the analysis of eProfessionals and their related organisation. * The design and development of an open standards, service-oriented architecture for complementary and alike systems. * A collaboration middleware and services to enable seamless and instant collaboration among knowledge workers in group forming networks, beyond organisational boundaries. * The creation of new tools that simplify the complexity of collaboration in dynamic work environments and which enable users for creative and knowledge intensive tasks.
Jack Park

ECOSPACE IP - eProfessional Collaborative Workspace - 0 views

www.ip-ecospace.org

collaboration ecospace eprofessional platform

shared by Jack Park on 30 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jack Park on 30 Jul 08
     
    ECOSPACE pursues the vision that by 2012 every Professional in Europe is empowered for seamless, dynamic and creative collaboration across teams, organisations and communities through a personalised collaborative working environment. ECOSPACE contributes to this vision through 4 main objectives: * The definition of innovative work paradigms through the analysis of eProfessionals and their related organisation. * The design and development of an open standards, service-oriented architecture for complementary and alike systems. * A collaboration middleware and services to enable seamless and instant collaboration among knowledge workers in group forming networks, beyond organisational boundaries. * The creation of new tools that simplify the complexity of collaboration in dynamic work environments and which enable users for creative and knowledge intensive tasks.
Bonnie Zink

Decision Making: In making sense of complexity, have we become gutless? | Theknowledgec... - 0 views

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shared by Bonnie Zink on 16 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Are we creating illusions for ourselves, creating hope that we are making sense of our complex world? 
  • we are creating illusions to reinforce our belief that we are controlling a complex and random world.
  • Dave Sowden’s Probe-Sense-Respond
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  • connectedness
  • distorts our decision-making process.
  • we have become more aware of the preconditions in our environment that contribute to states of punctuation, or jumps in history.
  • understanding the proximate causality of these jumps,
  • I argue that often we seek patterns where there are none and punctuated change comes from randomness – we cannot control it.
  • In this space, are we relying on our gut.
  • Bonnie Zink on 16 Jul 12
     
    A fantastic read to wake up your brain and help it see the trappings of false illusions and patterns around you. 
Swarna Srinivasan

Automotive technology: The connected car | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by Swarna Srinivasan on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • A modern car can have as many as 200 on-board sensors, measuring everything from tyre pressure to windscreen temperature. A high-end Lexus contains 67 microprocessors, and even the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano, has a dozen. Voice-driven satellite navigation is routinely used by millions of people. Radar-equipped cruise control allows vehicles to adjust their speed automatically in traffic. Some cars can even park themselves. document.write(''); Once a purely mechanical device, the car is going digital. “Connected cars”, which sport links to navigation satellites and communications networks—and, before long, directly to other vehicles—could transform driving, preventing motorists from getting lost, stuck in traffic or involved in accidents. And connectivity can improve entertainment and productivity for both driver and passengers—an attractive proposition given that Americans, for example, spend 45 hours a month in their cars on average. There is also scope for new business models built around connected cars, from dynamic insurance and road pricing to car pooling and location-based advertising. “We can stop looking at a car as one system,” says Rahul Mangharam, an engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, “and look at it as a node in a network.”
  • The best known connected-car technology is satellite navigation, which uses the global-positioning system (GPS) in conjunction with a database of roads to provide directions and find points of interest. In America there were fewer than 3m navigational devices on the road in 2005, nearly half of which were built in to vehicles. But built-in systems tend to be expensive, are not extensible, and may quickly be out of date. So drivers have been taking matters into their own hands: of the more than 33m units on the road today, nearly 90% are portable, sitting on the dashboard or stuck to the windscreen.
  • Zipcar, the largest car-sharing scheme, shares 6,000 vehicles between 275,000 drivers in London and parts of North America—nearly half of all car-sharers worldwide. Its model depends on an assortment of in-car technology. “This is the first large-scale introduction of the connected car,” claims Scott Griffith, the firm’s chief executive
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  • Zipcar’s available vehicles report their positions to a control centre so that members of the scheme can find nearby vehicles through a web or phone interface. Cars are unlocked by holding a card, containing a wireless chip, up against the windscreen. Integrating cars and back-office systems via wireless links allows Zipcar to repackage cars as a flexible transport service. Each vehicle operated by Zipcar is equivalent to taking 20 cars off the road, says Mr Griffith, and an average Zipcar member saves more than $5,000 dollars a year compared with owning a car.
  • “It is a chicken and egg problem,” says Dr Mangharam, who estimates it would take $4.5 billion to upgrade every traffic light and junction in America with smart infrastructure
  • And adoption of the technology could be mandated by governments, as in the case of Germany’s Toll Collect system, a dynamic road-tolling system for lorries of 12 tonnes or over that has been operating since late 2004. Toll Collect uses a combination of satellite positioning, roadside sensors and a mobile-phone data connection to work out how much to charge each user. Over 900,000 vehicles are now registered with the scheme and there are plans to extend this approach to road-tolling across Europe from 2012. Eventually it may also be extended to ordinary cars.
Jack Park

The Geomagnetic Apocalypse - And How to Stop It | Wired Science from Wired.com - 0 views

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geomagnetic climate solar radiation solar wind solar storm 2012 severe GCNIS.Source

shared by Jack Park on 25 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Jack Park on 25 Apr 09
     
    Entitled "Severe Space Weather Events - Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," it describes the consequences of solar flares unleashing waves of energy that could disrupt Earth's magnetic field, overwhelming high-voltage transformers with vast electrical currents and short-circuiting energy grids. Such a catastrophe would cost the United States "$1 trillion to $2 trillion in the first year," concluded the panel, and "full recovery could take four to 10 years." That would, of course, be just a fraction of global damages.
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