Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • What Ruins Running – A bio-anthropological perspective

    viawww.boston.com It is interesting to read this and other recent articles on the bio-anthropology of running: namely that running and walking barefoot follows our natural biomechanics. A number of more ergonomic footwear companies have now emerged to provide footwear that gives more space in the toe area. Related articles BioFit Helps Lab Specifiers Resolve to…

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  • What a collector loses (and gains) in the age of music downloading – The Boston Globe

    www.boston.com An interesting take on the social science of digital music which uses Locke’s perspective on ownership of property to argue that companies will need to consider ways to add context to technologies which become increasingly untouchable. via

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  • Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

    via www.ushahidi.com My friend Bill told me about this company which uses crowdsourcing to address crisis situations in developing countries. Related articles Ushahidi at Five (ushahidi.com) Why Ushahidi Should Embrace Open Data (irevolution.net) 5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance (wamda.com) Kenyan election bloggers become cyber-activism pioneers (rawstory.com) Jakarta Floods – Social Media Landscape in…

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  • The Online Books Page

    The Online Books Page. Related articles The pBook vs eBook: Dial D For Dilemma… (eof737.wordpress.com) A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut (firstdigital.co.nz) “Security Engineering” now available free online (lightbluetouchpaper.org)

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  • The Change Leader of Tomorrow | Change Management by Design | Fast Company

    via www.fastcompany.com Related articles Creating Resilence By Following Nature’s Lead | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation (fastcoexist.com) 11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader (leadspeak.wordpress.com)

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  • Information Visualization: Drug deaths vs. press coverage

    via www.informationisbeautiful.net David McCandless is an expert in information visualization. A great place to see his work is this website which features an interesting visualization of drug deaths and media coverage. As further evidence of this ranking please also see the scientist in the UK who has recently been fired for arguing that drug policy…

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  • LaidOffCamp: networking for people between jobs

    Laid off camp. Related articles Tip to Reduce Stress From Job Loss (sheilacraan1.wordpress.com) IBEC says 2012 may be last year of falling employment (newstalk.ie) What to Know Before You Get Fired or Laid Off (huffingtonpost.com) Top Tax Write-offs for the Self-Employed (turbotax.intuit.com) When identity is tied to former employer, unemployed report higher well-being (esciencenews.com) Create…

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  • Sales 2.0 Presentation Tool by Glance

    Sales 2.0 Presentation Tool by Glance. Related articles Sales 2.0 and Gamification: A Q&A with Anneke Seley (customerthink.com) Screensharing a browser tab in HTML5? (html5rocks.com) 5 Recommended iPad Screensharing Apps (edudemic.com) Smart Business Applications of Google+ Hangouts You’re Missing Out On (hubspot.com) Spring Design Launches Beta of ScreenShare™, an Android App that Extends Mobile Phone…

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  • MIT Social Network Analysis: Can Social Media Reveal our Identities?

    A new study from MIT uncovers a fascinating fact: the connections we make, groups we join and information we contribute, even minimally, to online networking tools like Facebook can reveal very detailed, personal information about our identities by using statistical, computational methods. Related articles Alumni Surveys on Entrepreneurship (kauffman.org) MIT Builds An Open-Source Platform For…

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  • Rethinking technology project management using ethnography

    This interesting article resonates with who has been involved in the management of large scale technology projects who knows that they are frequently plagued by mountains of paperwork as specialists try to document and capture what they think people will want or need in a new system for many months only to find out that their…

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  • A simple change could dramatically improve hospitals and American health care – The Boston Globe

    It’s refreshing to see a variety of experts take a stab at improving the healthcare system from a unique angle. This article looks at the work of a businessman who decided to create workflows of hospitals to see how much the experience could be improved by making a few, small tweaks.. A simple change could…

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  • The Global Green MBA | Brandeis University International Business School: Business, Economics and Finance for Global Leadership

    The Global Green MBA | Brandeis University International Business School: Business, Economics and Finance for Global Leadership. Related articles Why are some doctors so emotionally distant? Maybe it’s the economy. Brandeis Hires New Museum Director: Another Step Towards Making Things Right At The Rose Bard College to Launch Innovative MBA in Sustainability in New York…

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  • Rogue Amoeba | Airfoil for Mac: Wireless Audio Around Your House

    Rogue Amoeba | Airfoil for Mac: Wireless Audio Around Your House This is great once you have 2 or more Macs you can transmit audio from one to the other and their attached speakers to list to audio in any room. Related articles LineIn by Rogue Amoeba Apple ‘AirPlay Direct’ To Shed Wi-Fi Requirement What’s…

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  • Heartbeat software: life science document management solutions

    Heartbeat Experts. I’m looking for the best slide and content/document management system for pharma. According to KM for Med affairs CBI conference this is one of the best. Also, Cadient group, Exploria, Open Q, Skila, look good. Related articles Doctors: Become a key opinion leader using social media Best Practices In KOL & Prescriber Management…

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  • ContactNet. The Leading Enterprise Relationship Management Solution for Law Firms> Solutions > Hubbard One

    ContactNet. The Leading Enterprise Relationship Management Solution for Law Firms> Solutions > Hubbard One. Related articles Does Your EMR Need a Facelift? The decline and fall of enterprise relationship management Enterprise HR company Workday gunning for $400M IPO RIM plans new contact management features on BB10 devices (Euan Rocha/Reuters) Contact Management Software Basics 3 things…

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  • A shirt-ironing machine from Siemens

    A shirt-ironing machine from Siemens. I must find a more efficient way of ironing my shirts!!! Related articles Siemens PLM – We’re Just One Big Happy Family Siemens to unleash new offshore wind-turbine blade prototypes Siemens donates nearly $430M in software to University of Louisville Apollo shirt uses space suit technology to regulate body temperature…

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  • Senator Kennedy: Advocate for Healthcare IT and Reform

    The death of  Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) marks an important milestone in e-health and health-care IT as one of its more vigorous champions is now gone.  Since the Kennedy brothers went to my high school and were I feel amongst our strongest leaders as a country I feel a special sense of sorrow with his…

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  • New England Clean Energy Council | Accelerating New England’s Clean Energy Economy

    New England Clean Energy Council | Accelerating New England’s Clean Energy Economy. Related articles What Does Your Clean Energy Startup Need? Tweet to #startupneeds (bostinno.com) UTC Power Fuel Cell to Serve UConns Depot Campus (utcpower.com) Canada’s consul general to New England speaks on commerce at TACC breakfast (tauntongazette.com) Tech-Business Divide – A Call To Arms…

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  • Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship, MS | NYU-Poly

    Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship, MS | NYU-Poly. Related articles Researchers set record for detecting smallest virus, opening new possibilities for early disease detection (phys.org) NY-Poly Detector Sets Record for Smallest Virus Identified without Electon Microscopy (medgadget.com) By detecting smallest virus, researchers open possibilities for early disease detection (esciencenews.com) Millimeter Frequencies Proposed for 5G (dailywireless.org) Searching for 1,000…

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  • Carnegie Mellon Program in Biotechnology and Management: Healthcare spending and GDP

    Biotechnology and Management. The healthcare system costs the United States $2.7 trillion — 17.5 percent of gross domestic product — in 2010. More than 40 percent of that cost — about $1 billion — comprises pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology and medical devices. Related articles Inspiration – Carnegie Mellon ETC Projects (designgames12.wordpress.com) Carnegie Mellon University-Rwanda Launches Graduate…

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  • Xobni | Your smarter address book is waiting.

    Xobni | Your smarter address book is waiting.. This looks like a great way to leverage and organize, visualize your email (the world’s most popular KM system of all). Too bad it’s only made for the lame Outlook email and not for Gmail, Apple Mail etc. etc. Related articles Xobni commits to Outlook add-on for…

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