Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • GlobalFreeloaders.com: The Worldwide Free Accommodation Network

    GlobalFreeloaders.com / The Worldwide Free Accommodation Network. Related articles John Stossel – Freeloader Nation (hwnsurf.me) Travelers or Freeloaders (eyetravelsolodotcom.wordpress.com) Startup Stay lets you crash on the world’s most entrepreneurial couches (venturebeat.com) TurboTax – Tapping Your Inner Freeloader: 11 Tried and True Tips to Get Things Free (turbotax.intuit.com) What’s wrong with Tasmania, Australia’s freeloading state? (crikey.com.au)…

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  • American Medical Writers Association: good resource for life science writers

    American Medical Writers Association. Related articles What It Takes to Be a Medical Writer (biotechinkspots.com) Pitch Database By Young Science Writers For Young Science Writers (blogs.scientificamerican.com) What Science Writers Can Learn from Fiction Writers (writingishardwork.com) Announcing a Civil War Novel of Stunning Intensity & Great Beauty (prweb.com) Great Science Fiction Resources (costumesupercenter.com)

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  • gringoes.com: great site for South American, Brazilian nomads

    gringoes.com – Brazil Travel, Brazil Guide, Brazil News. Related articles RANDOM NOMAD: Andy Martin, UK-qualified Social Worker, Football Geek & Now a São Paulo Resident (thedisplacednation.com) My South America Trip #17 – Brazilian Food and Beverages – Caipirinha, Charrascaria, Brazilian Coffee and Coconut Water (msamba.wordpress.com) Think Nemo’s Bad? In Brazil It’s Raining Spiders (gawker.com) Will…

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  • Computational Linguistics: links and info

    Computational Linguistics. Related articles Can Computer Speak? (debaprasad.wordpress.com) Crossed conversations (bit-player.org) VigLink’s Principal Data Scientist Selected to Present at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2012)’s TextGraph Conference Workshop (viglink.com) Translation as Object Linguistic Review (socyberty.com)

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  • New video and e-book from my life science innovation course

    http://www.youtube.com/v/QDNhdI3fvsg?fs=1&hl=en_US Read our e-book here Related articles Medical Device Veteran and Author, Rudy Mazzocchi is Honored as One of Top 50 Innovators at the 2013 Venture Summit Conference (prweb.com) TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud Named Amazon AWS Grand Prize Winner for Protecting Patients, Enabling Health, Ensuring Track and Trace Compliance (prweb.com) BinaryOptionsBlueBook Announces Binary Options Winners…

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  • The phone call is dead

    via www.wired.com Related articles Blog: Why I love my dumbphone – Confused.com (confused.com) Someone PLEASE help me! I need to back up my phone! (discussions.apple.com) A Eulogy for My Dead BlackBerry 10 Demo, Which Lived for Four Days (nymag.com) A Eulogy For My Dead BlackBerry 10 Demo, Which Lived For Four Days (nymag.com)

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  • Anthrosourced color perception

    via boingboing.net Related articles Professions that encourage people who lack empathy? (timbatchelder.wordpress.com) Steampunk Motorcycles Make You Long For The Open Cobblestone Road (buzzfeed.com) THE FALL OF SOPA Explained In Beautiful 3min Video (geektyrant.com) 3 Tips for Selecting the Perfect Color Scheme for Your Home’s Interior Design (kengolendesignflorida.com) Modern Garage Apartments – A Space Reserved for…

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  • CBI Social Media Pharma Conference Videos now available from Pixels and Pills

    via www.pixelsandpills.com More videos and tweets from the CBI social media conference by Pixels and Pills are now posted on their site. The importance of trust and authenticity in patient/professional/industry interaction thru new online channels is emphasized. CBI Social Media Tools Conference Agenda Related articles Upcoming Pharma Conferences: December 2012 (medmeme.com) Pharma Marketing to Physicians…

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  • Cognitive Surplus: From Couch Potato to Weekend Warrior?

    via www.wired.com Clay Shirky author of Here Comes Everybody has cranked out another book on the use of social networking, this time turning his microscope on our spare time outside of work. His theory? That the amateur, DIY collaboration made possible by social networks is now leveraging time that was previously spent vegetating in front of…

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  • Mass High Tech New England Technology Directory

    Great source for information on Mass high tech companies and people. New England Technology Directory | Mass High Tech. Related articles Women Launch High-Tech Firms with Less Financial Capital than Men (kauffman.org) Updated and New Research on Immigration and Entrepreneurship (growthology.org) Top 10 states for High Tech businesses (hiscoxusa.com) Startup Watch: 5 to follow (Jan.…

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  • Skyscape: Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry

    Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry | Skyscape. Related articles 500+ Android And iOS Apps Now Available on Appy Pie Inc (prweb.com) Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple’s iPhone and iOS (technologynewsworldwide.com) Opinion: An Apple iOS UI redesign? Nice, but not essential (electronista.com)

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  • Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends

    In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture – NYTimes.com. Related articles Are words the atomic unit of a dynamic system? (sappingattention.blogspot.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) Google Labs’ NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com)…

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  • Scientists Turn Digital Code into Life

    via online.wsj.com Okay it has finally happened. Computer science has become biology and digital DNA has been used to make the first synthetic cell. The potential applications are diverse from biofuels to medicine. But what about the risks? Related articles Shakespeare’s sonnets encoded in DNA (guardian.co.uk) Huge Amounts Of Data Can Be Stored In DNA (news.sky.com)…

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  • Brandeis University Health Informatics program integrates computer, social and bio sciences

    Yet another Boston area school has launched a health and medical informatics program, largely online. Know for its bioinformatics degree, Brandeis is now adding courses in these other areas. Health and Medical Informatics | Programs and Courses | Graduate Professional Studies | Brandeis University. Related articles Information Technology improves patient care and increases privacy, informatics…

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  • Tracking Tweet Truthiness

    Computer and information scientists at Indiana University have developed a process to identify false tweets after these have become increasingly prevalent in politics and other sectors such as so called Twitter Bombs. Tracking The ‘Truthiness’ Of Tweets : NPR.  

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  • A Taxonomy of Nerds

    A new chart shows the subtle differences between a Geek, a Creep, a Dork and a Loser. A Taxonomy of Nerds – Brainiac . Related articles A Brief History Of Nerds In Pop Culture (neatorama.com) A Proposal for a New Taxonomy and Measurement Framework for Digital Marketing (covario.com) Infographic: Geek vs. Nerd (englishblog.com) New Version…

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  • FutureM: The future of Marketing Event

     Excellent even that merges marketing with social science and technology expertise. FutureM – Events Calendar. Related articles Event Recap: FutureM (grasshopper.com) 15 Email Marketing Lessons for Small Businesses from FutureM 2012 (blogs.constantcontact.com) Traditional Marketing is Dead! What’s Your Engagement Strategy? (blogs.constantcontact.com) The Future of Marketing, Part 1 #FutureM [Speakeasy #22] (blogs.constantcontact.com) Build Community for a…

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  • The politics of the internet: orkutificação or becoming “orkutised”

    In contrast to utopian ideals of some, the Internet like most other domains of social conduct is rapidly being divided into closed networks, haves and have nots. MySpace has been branded “lower class” and in Brazil wealthier citizens are migrating to Facebook from Orkut (Google’s social network) and branding those who still use the older…

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