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Jack Park

Sensemaking Interdisciplinary Forum - 0 views

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    Recent Sensemaking Research
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collection sensemaking [interface ecology lab | research] - 0 views

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    Sensemaking is the process through which humans put together understanding of related information. Sensemaking has been said to involve changes in cognitive representations during a human information processing task. Collection sensemaking involves understanding a collection of media entities, as a whole. One example of a sensemaking task is to compare the damage from Hurricane Katrina to homes, personal effects, and community buildings in different areas of New Orleans. Connected visual and semantic representations provide perspective to support users involved in collection sensemaking tasks. A zoomable map organizes images based on location at varying scales. Multiscale clusters based on zoom level organize images associated with events. The clusters afford contextualized thumbnail browsing and also maintain uniform information density on the map. Metadata enhances context and memory in the process of collection sensemaking.
Jack Park

USGS: National Hydrography Dataset - Concepts and Contents - 0 views

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    National Hydrography Dataset
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Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense | The Open Road - C... - 0 views

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    Open source brings to us the ability to have collaborative and agile development environments....Additionally, open source benefits the Department of Defense through...simplified licensing...and security....Security through obscurity just doesn't work.
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PS3Cluster Guide: By The Cluster Workshop - 0 views

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    Our community guide allows you to set up your own MPI (Message Passing Interface) based supercomputer cluster with the Playstation 3.
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OntoWebber - 0 views

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    OntoWebber is a Web site management system, which facilitates the creation, generation and maintenance of Web sites. Using OntoWebber, site engineers can build site models for domain-specific Web sites. The site models are based on explicit ontologies including the domain ontology and four distinct site-modeling ontologies. Using a RDF-aware rule engine, rules can be defined to check integrity constraints on the resulting site models, thus enforcing desirable properties of the materialized Web site. Both ontologies and site models are expressed using RDF(S)/XML languages. Rules are defined in the F-logic format. The prototype system provides an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for site engineers to performed all the above tasks for managing Web sites.
Jack Park

Using Semantic Word Classes in Text Information Retrieval Systems (ResearchIndex) - 0 views

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    In this paper an application of methodologies to automatically acquire semantic word classes and to use them in text information retrieval systems is described.
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Systems Biology Linker (Sybil) - 0 views

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    Systems Biology Linker (Sybil) is a platform for the integration of BioPAX and SBML. It is part of the Virtual Cell but also a useful tool for any SBML and BioPAX integration, in other words for any one who wants to use BioPAX with an SBML-capable platform or vice versa. While Sybil can be used as an intelligent conversion tool between SBML and BioPAX, it is primarily intended for building a joint repository for SBML and BioPAX data, where links between SBML elements and BioPAX objects are maintained by SBPAX. Sybil uses SYBREAM for most of the intelligent work involved in building the SBML-SBPAX-BioPAX joint repository.
Jack Park

On Why I Don't Like Auto-Scaling in the Cloud - O'Reilly Broadcast - 0 views

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    Auto-scaling is the ability (with certain cloud infrastructure management tools like enStratus-in a limited beta through the end of the year) to add and remove capacity into a cloud infrastructure based on actual usage. No human intervention is necessary. It sounds amazing-no more overloaded web sites. Just stick your site into the cloud and come what may! You just pay for what you use. But I don't like auto-scaling.
Jack Park

A Land Rush in Wyoming Spurred by Wind Power - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A quiet land rush is under way among the buttes of southeastern Wyoming, and it is changing the local rancher culture. The whipping winds cursed by descendants of the original homesteaders now have real value for out-of-state developers who dream of wind farms or of selling the rights to bigger companies.
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Wind Farms Could Change Weather | LiveScience - 0 views

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    The scientists, Daniel Barrie and Daniel Kirk-Davidoff of the University of Maryland, calculated "what might happen if all the land from Texas to central Canada, and from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains, were covered in one massive wind farm," according to Discovery News. The result of such an unlikely installation: a real serious Butterfly Effect.
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Publications: Zoetrope: Interacting with the Ephemeral Web - 0 views

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    The Web is ephemeral. Pages change frequently, and it is nearly impossible to find data or follow a link after the underlying page evolves. We present Zoetrope, a system that enables interaction with the historical Web (pages, links, and embedded data) that would otherwise be lost to time. Using a number of novel interactions, the temporal Web can be manipulated, queried, and analyzed from the context of familar pages. Zoetrope is based on a set of operators for manipulating content streams. We describe these primitives and the associated indexing strategies for handling temporal Web data. They form the basis of Zoetrope and enable our construction of new temporal interactions and visualizations.
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GrowingPains: Moving community informatics research forward - 0 views

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    Communities and technologies are key to community informatics. These technologies cover a wide range, with sophisticated computer and networking technologies only being one end of the spectrum. Face-to-face and other non-computerized technologies can be just as important, if often not more so. ICTs should therefore always be read as covering this whole spectrum.
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Are climate scientists overselling their models? - environment - 04 December 2008 - New... - 0 views

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    The temptation to interpret model noise as forecast information invades our living rooms every night. TV weather-forecast maps look so realistic it is hard not to over-interpret tiny details - to imagine that the band of rain passing over Oxfordshire at noon next Saturday requires postponing a barbecue. Rain may indeed be likely somewhere in the area sometime on Saturday, but the details we see on TV forecasts are noise from the models. I think we are having exactly the same problem with climate projections.
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Visual Explorer: Visual Explorer Quick Guide - 0 views

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    VE can be used in a wide variety of ways depending on the context. Here are the five basic steps for using VE to facilitate a group conversation around a shared question. These steps can be altered or elaborated for particular situations as described in the VE Guidebook. 1. Frame 2. Browse 3. Reflect 4. Share 5. Extend
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Global warming is changing organic matter in soil - 0 views

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    Soil organic matter is what makes dirt fertile and able to support plant life - both of which are especially important for agriculture. Organic matter retains water in the soil and prevents erosion. Natural processes of decomposition of soil organic matter provide plants and microbes with the energy source and water they need to grow, and carbon is released into the atmosphere as a by-product of this process. Warming temperatures are expected to speed up this process which will increase the amount of CO2 that is transferred to the atmosphere.
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Oceans Ten Times More Acidic Than Thought - 0 views

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    Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may make Earth's oceans more acidic faster than previously thought-unbalancing ecosystems in the process, a new study says
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How Biology and Technology Shape Sex and War | Wired Science from Wired.com - 1 views

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    So, when it comes to terrorism, it only works because of technology, because a small number of people, almost always men, can use technology for leverage. Nineteen terrorists armed with sticks and stones could do very little to affect the United States of America. But 19 terrorists armed with jet fuel-laden aircraft ... The technology pushed their destructive capability way beyond where it would have been. Nineteen men against 300 million people. We would have never known they existed if they hadn't leveraged technology.
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Saline agriculture may be the future of farming - 0 views

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    A future in saltwater: ways to adapt to a world with dwindling freshwater
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