What is LDT? The Learning, Design & Technology Program prepares professionals to design and evaluate educationally informed and empirically grounded learning environments, products, and programs that effectively employ emergent technologies in a variety of settings. Program Overview
It is a web-based survey tool. There are professionals who can help students to design their survey, get the most out of the technology, and support their efforts.
OpenBeacon is a free design for an active RFID device which operates in the 2.4GHz ISM band. The device contains a unique serial number, but may have other information. OpenBeacon is designed as a transceiver device and therefore both transmits and receives radio waves. The intention of this project is to offer a wide range of use cases such as visitor or item tracking and wireless remote control with a free self-contained and low-cost RFID design.
For Apple, he outlined, the end game isn't commercial success. "Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products," he explained. "We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are." This focus, he continued, has driven Apple to produce only a small number of high quality products. "We try not to bring out another product that's just different," he said. "'Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard."
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
Yesterday, I was with my wife in the L'Occitane store. The shelves were filled with fragrances, soaps, lotions: all sorts of handcrafted beauty products. It occured to ...
Continually evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs)touch nearly every aspect of our contemporary life. On the other hand,development of these modern technologies is closely intertwined withhuman practices and social innovations. The hum
In a previous essay, I wrote about the cognitive aspect of tagging - describing how people tag, and why they find it easy. There is another, equally important aspect of tagging that I did not touch upon - the "why" of tagging. Why do people tag? For many,
Microsoft Announces Surface Computer Duncan Riley 119 comments » surface1.pngAt the D: All Things Digital conference Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Mic
22 de maio de 2007, 17:31 Novas possibilidades e concepções se abrem para a produção artística com a webarte, que inclui telemática, produção colaborativa, pixel por pixel, arte conceitual e até fotografia digital. Por Salomão Terra
22 de maio de 2007, 17:31 Novas possibilidades e concepções se abrem para a produção artística com a webarte, que inclui telemática, produção colaborativa, pixel por pixel, arte conceitual e até fotografia digital. Por Salomão Terra
The Final Days of Google: It is going to be an inside job. Podcast[ google | larry page | sergey brin | start-ups | stock options ] Status: [OPEN] comments (88) | add a comment The Pulpit Poll When the business history books are written, which Internet c
Cool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them. Money can buy you a lot of things, but it can’t buy you co
I am a consulting research scientist for NYU's Department of Computer Science, currently working with Yann Lecun on various autonomous robot navigation projects, while also finding time to direct some of my own research.
Using RhNav - Rhizome Navigation I wrote a data aggregator for Technorati's API. The first result is a video which visualizes blog domains by analysing Technorati's Cosmos (the blogs which link to a particular URL). The video is a screencast of RhNav fetc
InfoQ.com (Information Queue) is an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager. InfoQ serves
Strategies of online moderation
This is a space for studying strategies of moderation in groups that conduct some or all of their communications online. The principal content of this wiki is a proposed "pattern language" -- a description of the common patterns of these moderation systems -- for developers to consider when deploying or altering social software.