sensemaking

Theory Garden™ MindDraw™ is the brainchild of Professor Richard J. Boland, Jr. and Dr. Tanvir Y. Goraya, Ph.D.It grows form reserach funded from 1991 to 1994 by the National Science Foundation Porgram on coordination Theory and Collaborative Technology. That award was supplemented by a grant form Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and included development of a software tool named Spider. Publications describing the Spider project are listed below.

It has been recognised that failures within an organisation can often be related to the over simplification of the belief structures that are used in decision making.2 Distributed cognition is a framework that can be used for analysing complex distributed settings to explain how the social activities within these impact the cognitive processes of the participants.� Rather than focussing on the mind, the material world is seen as being central.� It shows how important it is that participants in a setting can look at their own interpretations and discus these with others before deciding which actions to take.

Designing Information Technology to Support Distributed Cognition

DISTRIBUTED COGNITION AND COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN: THE ORGANISATION OF WORK IN CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING

Complexity grows as technology, environment and economy become more interconnected. Complex Reasoning considers how each element affects and is affected by others. Seed™ models your theories of how a change in one element of a system creates changes in other elements. It then simulates their dynamic behavior and communicates your learning.

The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc

In 2000, Nicola Guarino and Chris Welty published a series of papers on what came to be named OntoClean, a methodology for ontology-driven conceptual analysis. The methodology has been receiveing increasing levels of attention in various communities, and on this page we hope to provide a central repository for information regarding OntoClean, to help keep the community in touch with how the methodology is being implemented, supported, used, extended, and referenced.

MICRA is hosting the COSMO (COmmon Semantic MOdel) ontology, a public, open foundation ontology that is intended to include all the basic elements required to specify the meanings of any more specific concept in any domain.

Drug Ontology is developed by the nosology project at Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. This project seeks to discover new therapeutic uses and adverse effects of drugs by finding diseases that have gene expression profiles similar to those of the known indications and adverse effects of drugs. The objectives of the Drug Ontology are: * defines a core set of concepts and relationships that allow us to integrate information from multiple sources, * provides classification services along multiple axes, * provides links to external sources so that data not in the ontology can be queried from these sources.

Information Cards are the new way to control your personal data and identity on the web.

Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Scratch is a simple, easy-to-learn programming language designed at MIT's Media Lab that lets anyone create and share video games and animated stories. Introduced just over a year ago, it has already attracted a wide following--particularly among kids aged 8 to 15--and a variety of uses that its creators never imagined. Now, Scratch users from around the world are gathering for the first of what is planned as an annual conference to discuss the software and its uses and to share ideas.

It seems likely that the university grew out of the apprenticeship model of an expert working closely with an apprentice, assigning them challenging tasks and then providing guidance as needed to carry out those tasks, as well as offering ongoing feedback on their work. This model, or its modern day embodiment of "the expert individual tutor," remains the most effective demonstrated approach to education.

In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, linguists observed an artificial language evolve from random to ordered, naturally adapting in ways that assured its reproduction.

A grounded, semirelational, peer to peer replicated, disconnected, versioned, property database with self-healing conflict resolution.

Through ANLoc, the African Network for Localization, the Kamusi Project is proud to be involved with a project to create Locales for 100 African languages. The following presentation provides an introduction to the initiative:

JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services

A twine about the concept of an emerging global brain. What are the similarities and differences between the Internet and the human brain and nervous system? What are the steps that are leading us towards a global brain? What are the implications of the global brain?