A Smarter Planet

Wed 02 Dec ∞ Permalink

To find your way through the storm, watch the clip and follow the tracks for clues to Breakaway Breakout. Next stop: http://bit.ly/ibmbreakaway

Fri 27 Nov ∞ Permalink

IBM employees are currently using text translation software that can instantly convert documents, Web pages, and even instant messages between English and 11 other languages. The software, christened “n.Fluent,” is being “crowdsourced” or tested among IBM’s 400,000 employees across 170 countries. As IBMers use n.Fluent, the software learns from its mistakes and improves itself. As the entire company potentially taps into n.Fluent, volunteers within IBM refine each translated word for greater accuracy.

—IBM taps into group language translation | Digital Media - CNET News

Tue 24 Nov ∞ Permalink

brinkjunk:

Smart man

Tue 24 Nov ∞ Permalink

chrbutler:

Matt Jones from Berg writes about the idea of ‘humanizing’ data and shows the above example- they have been riffing on the idea of Chernoff faces as a means to differentiating school performance based on a variety of factors. Read the entire post and watch the quick demo he provides. It’s a really wonderful idea!

Fri 20 Nov ∞ Permalink

Qualcomm Ebook Display Ups the Ante with Full Color and Video - Gizmodo

Qualcomm has developed a 5.7-inch (1,024x768) display for ebook readers that not only renders color and video; it does so with enough power efficiency to challenge a black and white, still-frame Kindle.

Thu 12 Nov ∞ Permalink

datavis:

Education according to GOOD.is

Mon 09 Nov ∞ Permalink

We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.

—Carl Sagan (via blogut)

Mon 09 Nov ∞ Permalink

chrbutler:

Books and Libraries in the Digital Age: Robert Darnton discusses the ocean of digital information. From MIT’s Distributed Intelligence.

Mon 09 Nov ∞ Permalink

NYU is offering what could be a model for next-gen J-school, its Studio 20 concentration.

— Boston MediaNEXT (via studio20nyu)

Mon 09 Nov ∞ Permalink

Technology Gap

smartercities:

infoneernet:

Professors think they are doing reasonably well when it comes to using technology in the classroom, according to a survey released here this week by CDW-G at the annual meeting of Educause. Not everyone agrees with the faculty view of things. Consider these statistics from nationally representative samples of students and faculty members (at two- and four-year institutions, public and private). Asked about their use and their institutions’ support for technology, professors said the following:

75 percent said that their institution “understands how they use or want to use technology.”

67 percent are happy with their own technology professional development.

74 percent said that they incorporate technology into every class or almost every class.

64 percent said that they teach in what they consider to be a smart classroom.

Sounds like a technology savvy professoriate. But when students were asked whether their professors understand technology and have integrated it into their courses, only 38 percent said Yes. Further, when students were asked about the top impediment to using technology, the top answer was “lack of faculty technology knowledge,” an answer that drew 45 percent of respondents, up from 25 percent only a year ago.

And only 32 percent of students said that they believed their college was adequately preparing them to use technology in their careers.

Seen at Inside Higher Ed

Sun 08 Nov ∞ Permalink

Business school curricula mostly do not prepare students for this new digital world. Institutions recognize this, and many are catching up by offering courses and curricula in Internet marketing, digital media and new-media marketing. But the vast majority are not integrating these skills throughout. It’s much easier to create a standalone course than it is to take the Introduction to Marketing class and change it so that it integrates analytics into the research or finance portion, or search engine optimization (SEO) into the writing/communication section.

—Teaching the Facebook Generation - BusinessWeek

Mon 02 Nov ∞ Permalink

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We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.

NYU is offering what could be a model for next-gen J-school, its Studio 20 concentration.

Technology Gap