Boston – Page 3 – Insight Sciences

Cambridge Innovation Center: Shared Space for Remote Workers and Startups

May 30, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

My friend Jay told me about this one. About $500/month per person for a shared office space desk in a premium area. Neighboring the MIT campus and steps away from the Red Line in the heart of Kendall Square, Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area. The Cambridge Innovation Center offers start-up and emerging companies award-winning facilities and state-of-the-art business and technical services in a package which is designed to meet the needs of small and growing businesses. CIC is cost efficient and scales with the company’s growth. Currently, over 450 companies are located at CIC.

Office Space Solutions in Cambridge & Boston, Massachusetts – CICTR.com.

Acorn Deck House Company

May 15, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Systems Science

There are a bunch of these for sale around Boston. Kind of a nice design…

Acorn Deck House Company.

Bring Your Home To A Higher Level: Add A Deck (leccoworkshop.com)
Sustainable Materials – Insight from Our Top Experts (elocal.com)
Building on Sustainability (elocal.com)
Self-Sustaining HOUS.E+ is a Rammed Earth Home of the Future in Vancouver (inhabitat.com)
Copenhagen’s Tietgenkollegiet Dorm is the Coolest Circular Housing Complex on Campus (inhabitat.com)
Green Building Open House Tour Seeking Applicants (buffalorising.com)
Every Building Should be Sustainable, Not Just Green (greenconduct.com)
What will our Future Homes look like? (evoenergy.co.uk)
Strabag’s Art-Filled Slovakia Heaquarters is Topped With an Upside-Down House! (inhabitat.com)
‘Greener and greener’ Li Ka Shing Center wins LEED Gold (newscenter.berkeley.edu)

Traffic: Behavior Based Reality

November 19, 2008 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Drawing upon a growing network of sensors embedded on our roadways several new books and articles show that once again few studies were done into actual human behavior before designing the conduits which we spend most of our waking hours in: our national roadways. Discoveries reveal that for example the $15 Big Dig project in Boston actually increased traffic in the suburbs (average commute times have doubled in some areas) while reducing it downtown (it just moved the bottle necks outward). Also, speed bumps are worthless because drivers just speed up between them.

Boston Traffic: Before And After The Big Dig (wbur.org)
Sprucing Up Our Road and Speed Bumps (urestates.wordpress.com)
True cost of Big Dig exceeds $24 billion with interest, officials determine (boston.com)
Speed humps to be replaced (toledoblade.com)

Upgrade! Boston: new media and collaboration

November 12, 2008 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

Upgrade! Boston.

PodCamp Boston 3 Opens (Photo credit: CC Chapman)monthly gathering of artists, curators and the public that fosters dialogue and creates opportunities for collaboration within the new media community

Enterasys Networks Honored as a Top Place to Work in 2012 by The Boston Globe (prnewswire.com)
MIT and the Boston Globe: can universities reboot news outlets? (paidcontent.org)
Sustainable Design Will Take Center Stage Next Week at Build Boston (prweb.com)
Zemanta On The Road – On our way to WordCamp Boston (zemanta.com)

The End of Alone: moving from real interaction to online lives

November 12, 2008 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management

Semiotics and Future Studies DMin Orientation ... — Semiotics and Future Studies DMin Orientation Advance photos, cohort 9 (Photo credit: lorenkerns)

The End of Alone – The Boston Globe.

An article in Boston Glove magazine charts the curious trend away from real human interaction towards entirely digitally mediated ones and notes the importance of being un reachable at times which is becoming increasingly difficult