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

Deutsch: inside the CERN Globe of Science and ...
Deutsch: inside the CERN Globe of Science and Innovation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://www.youtube.com/v/QDNhdI3fvsg?fs=1&hl=en_US

Read our e-book here

Mass High Tech New England Technology Directory

New England Patriots: Gillette Stadium
New England Patriots: Gillette Stadium (Photo credit: markwaitkus)

Great source for information on Mass high tech companies and people.

New England Technology Directory | Mass High Tech.

Text Mining: The Intersection of Content & BI

English: The relationship between Information ...
English: The relationship between Information Science, Computer Science, Information Systems and Management. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Good overview of the use of text mining for BI.

Text Mining: The Intersection of Content & BI – Software – Information Management – Informationweek.

Tapping into the Invisible Web

A majority of the web is a closed network. Good definition:

Invisible Web – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Energy Federation: Good source of energy efficiency products

English: Sample UK home performance rating ene...
English: Sample UK home performance rating energy efficiency label, vertical (charts one above the other) orientation. See also: thumb|Home energy performance rating charts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Energy Federation – Where saving energy is easy.

Recommended by NSTAR home energy audit

In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine

via www.wired.com

An interesting new article in Wired on the way that social networking, crowdsourcing and software driven, personal manufacturing is transforming the manufacturing of every type of good. Indeed the worlds of bit and atoms are merging at a rapid clip.

Alex (Sandy) Pentland Homepage: Honest Signals, Reality Mining, and Sensible Organizations

MIT Media Labs 2
MIT Media Labs 2 (Photo credit: senomoto)
A segment of a social network
A segment of a social network (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Alex (Sandy) Pentland Homepage — Honest Signals, Reality Mining, and Sensible Organizations.

What if you could see yourself as others see you? What if you could have a God’s eye view of how the people in your social network interact? Or `see the rhythms of interaction for everyone in your town? Or even the entire country? The answer: travel to the Amazon and live with indigenous people for a year… or use Reality Mining

Fitbit: tracking my sleep, exercise and nervous twitching

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Image via CrunchBase

Fitbit Blog.

Online Education Beats the Classroom?

Intriguing study by SRI for the Dept. of Education that found that over a 12-year span, 99 studies of quantitative comparisons of online and classroom performance for the same courses. The analysis for the Department of Education found that, on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th percentile in tested performance, compared with the average classroom student scoring in the 50th percentile. That is a modest but statistically meaningful difference.

Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – NYTimes.com.

Nano Culture Wars Coming Soon

 


Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. The report is published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

 

Anthro TECH, LLC: Making Technology Matter to People

Museum of Anthropology
Museum of Anthropology (Photo credit: masabu)

Anthro TECH, LLC: Making Technology Matter to People.