science

Duke U Press Publishes Study by Obama's Mama

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

Thoughts about technology, "everyware healthcare" & my dad. (Stories from the ICU, Songs from the LTACH)

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on Apr 06, 2009, 12:16 AM

My father had surgery over a month ago, spent about 3 weeks in the ICU, and now is living the life of luxury in a LTACH, stranded in a city where he does not live, hundreds of miles away from family and friends.   I've written a few blog posts related to health care, emergency health records,

World 3

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 06, 2009, 08:36 AM

There are definition problems when talking about the entities of ?Information Technology?: what should we call the main ingredients? Intuitively it would seem that there is a technological domain, consisting of machines and programs that work with something called inf

Your Own Personal Supercomputer

Submitted by michael_ansel on Feb 03, 2009, 02:21 PM
As part of Cathy Davidson's class, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet", at Duke University, we have been discussing the brain, its functionality, and its ability to adapt to changing circumstances and even traumatic situations. It is interesting to note that, despite our tendency to think linearly, our brain is actually processing everything in a massively parallel system. Here is a quick comparison between standard computer processors (non-parallel), graphics processors (parallel), and the brain (massively parallel).

You mean I need to make up my mind?

Submitted by megosfar on Jan 31, 2009, 02:58 PM

 

HASTAC III.  ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.?
This blog is part of a series of blogs leading up to the third annual HASTAC conference, which will be held April 19-21, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the theme ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.? As the theme suggests, the gathering will focus on the exploration of new territory and on work that crosses, manipulates, or simply ignores traditional boundaries. The conference program will include presentations of research, performances, technology demonstrations, posters, panel discussions, and ?virtual? participation via telepresence technology.  For more information, contact HASTAC3@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Locating Technoscience reader

Submitted by matthew-w-wilson on Sep 17, 2008, 12:48 PM

A group of geographers have posted a reader on technoscience, called "Locating Technoscience".

From their 'cover':

"The aim of this reader is to introduce and contextua

Maps... all the way from 4500 BC to GPS

Submitted by Anaventura on Aug 29, 2008, 10:36 PM

Early cartography was impacted by scientific revolution and enlightenment but also driven by hegemonic forces: our ancestors needed "to know where the 'loot' was and then get back home with it safe and sound" (quoting Dr. Shaowen Wang).

I-CHASS|WED 7/30 Part I

Submitted by Anaventura on Aug 06, 2008, 08:01 PM

On Wednesday morning Michael Meredith didn?t stay as long as usual at the group's breakfast table. He wanted to get ready for his demo of Virtual Vellum, starting at 9AM sharp.

Michael is just a really great communicator. I wish that more CS folks were like him...:) Even in something as serious as Illuminated manuscripts he finds a way to make things fun such as by callin the "Manuscripts Torture Chamber" to the room where they carefully manipulate the manuscripts - most (all?) from France and Belgium.