Tag: Cory Doctorow

Location based culture data app

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sun­light Foun­da­tion that helps you to learn more about your sur­round­ings in sec­onds. Sitegeist takes pub­lic data about the peo­ple, hous­ing, his­to­ry, envi­ron­ment and thing… … Continue reading Location based culture data app

Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Digital Health, Linguistic Search, Network Science, OSINT Intelligence

  Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net In “Cred­i­bil­i­ty rank­ing of tweets dur­ing high impact events,” a paper pub­lished in the ACM’s Pro­ceed­ings of the 1st Work­shop on Pri­va­cy and Secu­ri­ty in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion… Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency Related articles Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics … Continue reading Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

Biella Coleman studies the anthropology of tech culture

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Digital Health, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Coding Freedom: an anthropologist understands hacker culture Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Biel­la Cole­man is a geek anthro­pol­o­gist, in both sens­es of the epi­thet: an anthro­pol­o­gist who stud­ies geeks, and a geek who is an anthro­pol­o­gist. Though she’s best known today for her excel­lent and insight­ful work on the mech­a­nis… RT @BoingBoing: Coding Freedom: an anthropologist understands … Continue reading Biella Coleman studies the anthropology of tech culture

Rudy Rucker by Cory Doctorow

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

#cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on Rudy Rucker Elliot Harmon, creativecommons.org Cory Doctorow / NK Guy / CC BY-SAIn celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow writes about the… #cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on … Continue reading Rudy Rucker by Cory Doctorow

Coursera helps to mitigate the pain of calculus with elearning

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Robert Ghrist from Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia wrote in to tell us about his new, free Cours­era course in single-variable Cal­cu­lus, which starts on Jan 7. Cal­cu­lus is one of those amaz­ing, chewy, chal­leng­ing branch­es of math, and… RT @BoingBoing: Free Coursera Calculus course with … Continue reading Coursera helps to mitigate the pain of calculus with elearning