Design & Technology

Internet Not Egalitarian 0
- Design & Technology
- July 20, 2011
The social scientist, Himelboim, analysed discussions among more than 200,000 participants in 35 newsgroups over a six-year period. He focused his analysis on political and philosophical newsgroups on Usenet, the oldest Internet discussion platform, and is currently exploring patterns of communication in newer social networking services, such as Twitter. The results showed that only two

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Digital Sloth: Mobile telecom providers as KPN are lazy.0
- Design & Technology
- July 5, 2011
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Books – The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive 0
- Design & Technology
- May 19, 2011
‘Most Human Human.’ It was this title that author Brian Christian set out to win in 2009, when he enrolled in the Turing Test; a test which determines a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. A human judge engages in a conversation with both a human and a machine, each of which tries to appear

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Digital Greed: Why Apple keeps taking your money 0
- Design & Technology
- May 9, 2011
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Advancing MIT’s Open Course Ware 0
- Design & Technology
- February 4, 2011
OCW will soon reach a new milestone: ten years of free educational courses. In this webcast, the speakers discuss how the idea from MIT grew into an international movement, the current state of OCWs, and successes and barriers institutions face in launching OCWs.

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Why access and connections will increasingly matter 0
- Design & Technology
- December 7, 2010
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on why access and connections will increasingly matter. Knowledge is now evolving so quickly, I think it’s equally, if not more important, to have access and be connected to the people who have the knowledge you most need to get your job done … Talent is going to be driving where

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