In their feverish coverage of his immediate fiscal and diplomatic plans, international commentators have largely overlooked his longer-term vision for the French economy. (By Jeremy Cliffe)
Despite the dramatic shift toward simplification in software interfaces, the world of development tools continues to shrink our workspace with feature after feature in every release. Even with all of these things at our disposal, we're stuck in a world of files and forced organization - why are we still looking all over the place for the things we need when we're coding? Why is everything just static text?
Bret Victor hinted at the idea that we can do much better than we are now - we can provide instant feedback, we can show you how your changes affect a system.
The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment.
- http://senseable.mit.edu/obama/data_analysis.html
- http://senseable.mit.edu/realtimerome/
- http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/
- http://www.mamartino.com/
- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ratti-smartest-cities-use-people-as-sensors Bilder:
- http://www.maind.supsi.ch/maindzine/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fig-3.jpg
- http://flowingcity.com/wp-content/uploads/madonna-color-630x472.jpg
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Supercomputer predicts revolution:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14841018
N. Rattehalli, and I. Jain. A UTILIZATION OF CONVOLUTIONAL MATRIX METHODS ON SLICED HIPPOCAMPAL NEURON REGION IMAGES FOR CELL SEGMENTATION, 9 (1/2/3):
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