Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • OmniPlan for Mac – The Omni Group

      OmniPlan for Mac – The Omni Group. really good project management software. wish it was hosted and web based Related articles News: OmniPlan adds PDF export, task and resource reports (ilounge.com) Manage Projects Like A Pro On Your iPad [Feature] (cultofmac.com) RSS Sponsor: OmniPlan for iPad → (omnigroup.com) Weekly Poll: Which Omni Group Apps…

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  • 43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work

    43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work. best project and time management approach Related articles Great Email Time Management Tips Part 1 (brucemayhew.wordpress.com) The Paradox Of Time- What I Have Learn’t So Far (auniqueworld.wordpress.com) Find Time to be Savvy-5 Favorite Sites for Tech, Time and Productivity (solo-e.com) Management Tip ~ Stop Wasting Your Boss’s…

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  • University of Michigan: School of Information

          UMSI.   Related articles   Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Michigan School Report Cards Released (detroit.cbslocal.com) University of Michigan Courses (programmableweb.com)  

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  • John Rooksby ethnography and tech expert

    John Rooksby. Related articles What kind of researcher do you want to be? (cassieearl.wordpress.com) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) More self-managing organizations? (orgtheory.wordpress.com) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography revisited – timing and pacing (orgtheory.wordpress.com)

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  • “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”

            Ethnography.com » Blog Archive » “Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”.   Related articles   Forget the Cloud: DNA Could Become the New Home for Big Data Storage (bostinno.com) New Web Intelligence and Big Data Coursera Class (datascience101.wordpress.com) UC Berkeley Big Data Bootcamp (datascience101.wordpress.com) The Big Apple’s Big…

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  • CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online

    CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online. Related articles Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford adds social learning component to free online course (insidehighered.com) Digitization Projects: Stanford Releases Hundreds of Oral History Interviews Online (infodocket.com)…

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  • How language drives biology and culture

    How language transformed humanity | GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk Interesting TED Video and article suggesting that language has driven all biological and cultural evolution and is our most powerful neurological social technology allowing us to implant a thought into someone’s mind without the need for surgery according to Mark Pagel. Language created social learning…

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  • Greening capitalism talk from David Blood

    A good overview of the need to make finance more social e.g. focused on the cultural, health and the environmental context of investments. David Blood is a graduate of Hamilton College ’81 who I heard at the reunion weekend.

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  • Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad

    Hipmunk updates flight search app for iPad | Travel | Macworld. Related articles Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search (for iPad) (pcmag.com) Find your next flight with Hipmunk iPhone app (reviews.cnet.com) Review: Don’t leave home without Hipmunk’s travel search app for iOS (macworld.com) Hipmunk (pcmag.com) Hipmunk and Kayak launch tools to help you fly cheap (venturebeat.com)…

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  • Hamilton college alumni weekend features new science center and other innovations

    I just returned from alumni weekend at Hamilton College and was amazed at the evolution of this school since I completed my studies there. A new science center that looks like an Apple store, expanding visibility for its expertise in writing, media and communications, a dynamic network of alumni and new e-learning platforms connecting it…

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  • High frequency stock traders and optimal fiber optic network locations

    Soon, several computer scientists argue, stock traders will locate themselves in optimal points long fiber optic cable routes (shown on the map) to optimize the speed of their trades by milliseconds.  High-frequency trading is a new way for financial firms to make money by trading securities ultra-fast. Instead of holding securities for the long term,…

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  • Sugar as a toxin: YouTube video of biochemistry and evolutionary medicine

    Recently a YouTube video explaining the biochemistry of sugar has elevated public awareness of thousands of Americans enough to question heir intake. Much of the research, this speaker notes, points to sugar as a direct toxin, including more recent discoveries on its effect on insulin signaling and cancer. Of course anthropologists have long documented the…

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  • Tangled in an endless web of distractions

    Colleges are limiting access to social media during classes due to concerns about impacts on learning. Tangled in an endless web of distractions – Boston.com. Related articles Viral Marketing in 2013 Hinges on Content Creation, Social Media (prweb.com) Tangled FX for iOS – Unique New Photo Effect – Currently #35 in Photo (themactrack.com) Oh what…

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  • Mac/PC demographics

    Hunch Blog | Blog Archive | Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch. Hilarious. Related articles PC Mag: iMac is Editor’s Choice (appleday.org) Death Ray Manta out now on iOS (vg247.com) How to create a Raven desktop app for Macs and PCs (raventools.com) MAC vs. PC vs. State Of Confusion (techmamas.com) Mac OS is better and…

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  • Mesh and the end of the ownership economy

    Today you can still hear some managers, schooled in conventional thinking, claim the importance of “ownership” be it over people, projects or things in their employees and customers. How quaint. Today, with the penetration of the Internet and declining importance of hierarchical “superpowers”, access, one’s ability to collaborate, knowledge sharing and network connection is becoming…

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  • Dan Zarrella: Social media science and Twitter linguistic analysis

    Dan is an interesting guy with a strong web and social networking background. He is a social media scientist and has designed a number of linguistic tools to analyze online behavior. My Bio | Dan Zarrella. Related articles Science Of Twitter 2013 (slideshare.net) 5 Proven Social Media Call-to-Action Tips [Research] (heidicohen.com) Nieman Journalism Lab &…

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  • Fitbit: Personal Informatics to track sleep and movement

    I’ve been using this device for some months and it is excellent for visualizing your movements including sleep habits. Fitbit. Related articles Check yourself with the new Fitbit One (bestbuymobile.com) Fitbit Ultra Wireless Activity and Sleep Tracker (bestbuymobile.com) Staying healthy is finally addicting, thanks to Fitbit! (bestbuymobile.com) Fitbit Ultra Wireless Activity Plus Sleep Tracker Review…

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  • Health IT Certification Scholarship: George Washington University School of Public Health

    The demand for health IT specialists is now so acute that George Washington University and other schools are offering scholarships for their training programs. This is a workforce development program offering tuition assistance of up to $10,000 by The United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of The National Coordinator. The intention of this…

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  • 3D Printing: A More Biological Approach to Manufacturing

    3D printing: The printed world | The Economist. Related articles Inhabitat’s Week in Green: LED wine sellar, a ‘Breathing Bike’ and 3D-printed embryonic stem cells (engadget.com) personalfactory: “For 3D printing we are developing a… (seattle-gadgets.tumblr.com) 3D Gun-Printing Technology is Getting Worryingly Better (gizmodo.com.au) The end of the Oyster Buffet: eventually 3D printing might kill all…

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