On Saturday, the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers hosted the first-ever public demonstration of Microsoft Surface, the digital interactive table with a 30-inch touch screen that might just revolutionize […]
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One of the hottest ideas in business and technology is the idea of leveraging gaming technology to solve real world problems. Now is the time for the healthcare industry to take notice.
The best-selling netbooks typically fall within the $300 to $400 range and their capabilities are increasing rapidly as manufacturers figure out how to include more features. For example, we are […]
I’m one of the lucky ones: my XO arrived in time for Christmas (thank you, Betsy!). I wish I knew to which country the other one went. For those of […]
Despite the vast amounts of computing and communication power in corporate hands, companies are only at the early stages of using I.T. to revamp business practices.
Part 5 of Big Think’s Farsight 2011 event looked at how artificial intelligence and machine learning would affect the future of digital search — and how we understand and predict the future.
Those in charge of the artificial intelligence hype delight in exciting us and frightening us with the fiction of a machine that can think. It’s great theater, but that’s all it is.
A middle school librarian in New Jersey has gotten some media attention for her anti-Wikipedia campaign: Linda O’Connor regards Wikipedia the same way former first lady Nancy Reagan campaigned against […]
Below is a nifty video, Mobile Year in Review 2010, that highlights some of the changes we saw last year related to mobile phones and computing. My favorite statistic is this […]
Released just yesterday, Physics of the Future is my most ambitious book to date. Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the […]
As we come to rely more and more upon technology as a filter for our own life experiences, opportunities to bend reality abound. In theory, none of this is new. […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] I’ve been reading Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing by Adam Greenfield. It’s a fascinating book and I’m learning a lot. Greenfield’s essential premise […]
n This is Minnie, our Dell Inspiron 910 Mini “netbook” that’s the newest addition to our computer family. As the pictures show, she’s a lot smaller than my ThinkPad X61 Tablet. […]
I’ve had a lot of fun guest blogging over at The Des Moines Register this week. For those of you who would like to have a single link that you […]
If we were really serious about educational technology, we would… [here are 10 to get you started] show students how to edit their privacy settings and use groups in Facebook […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n There is every reason to believe that technology will only become more effective with time. The same cannot be said of the […]
I previously posted about wireless technologies in less developed nations. Kofi Annan supported this view nearly 4 years ago! One cool indigenous Wi-Fi innovation, is the Cambodian motoman. Here, motorcycle […]
Here’s another envisioning of the forms that traditional print publications are going to take as tablet eReaders and computers become more prevalent. This one is from Penguin Books and shows what […]
Some of you may remember that I’m headed to Iowa State University in about a month. I ran across a story on its news service last week about Chad Harms, […]
Even during a recession, pockets of innovation are forming across the country. Business Week recently put together a great pictorial feature on 75 of America’s Most Promising Start Ups. Some […]
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and thus making video calls via services like Skype or Google Talk are already a well established standard in the tech community. According to a […]
My commentary onthe transportation needs of an aging America (How to Avoid a Surge of Shut-Ins)appeared October 20, 2010 in the New York Times Opinion section Room for Debate. I […]
What could the future of search and information distribution look like? Here are two very exciting possibilities.
Before Watson’s Jeopardy! contest was even over, I.B.M. and Nuance, a leading maker of voice-recognition software, announced plans to put the computer to work in the health-care industry.
Well, I’ve really enjoyed this week of guest blogging. As an academic whose professional livelihood requires writing according to lots of strict formatting and content guidelines, I find a lot […]
We have some technology funds to spend in my department. The computer lab that we provide for our on-campus graduate students is brand new and, other than some needed software, […]
The current issue of Popular Mechanics has assembled a great list of the 10 Most Brilliant Innovations of 2007. At the top of the list, of course, is the new […]
My latest roundup of links and tools… America is not competitive A majority of Fortune 1000 executives surveyed give the American pre-college system a failing grade. As Andrew Trotter reports […]
Apple didn’t invent the tablet computer, but it didn’t invent the MP3 player or the cell phone either, says Shane Richmond. Now Apple markets its iPad 2 as a post-PC device.
I found out recently that my local school district now allows students to bring their own laptops from home. I think that this is GREAT (even while simultaneously understanding the […]