Lyn Jeffery

read for comments, e.g. " was lost at first, but quickly found new friends and new things to do. I help run a travelling vaudeville theatre group and write & perform comedy acts - something I'd never have thought of doing in real life. " - Lyn Jeffery

gorgeous hyperphoto landscape, you can navigate it like a game environment - Lyn Jeffery

it works both ways. Chinese researchers have a wider landscape to compete on. ""It really is irritating that the good pay is reserved for people who are still in the U.S.," Wei says. Last year, Wei left Shanghai to run a new research center at the University of North Carolina, where his package is in six figures." - Lyn Jeffery

nice concept: "socially-responsible and environmentally-friendly are some of the biggest affinity attributes but the key point is that deep attribute knowledge means that capital can be directed granularly to ANY affinity attribute." - Lyn Jeffery

fold in facial-recognition technology and you could point your phone at Bob from accounting, whose visage is now “augmented” with the information that he has a gay son and drinks Hoegaarden. More recently, a Swedish company has publicized a prototype app that would in fact augment the image of Bob (or whomever) with information from his social-networking profiles — and they aren’t kidding. - Lyn Jeffery

third cloud: nice. "labeled “the third cloud” by David P. Reed of MIT, underscores the most profound change for smartphones currently coming to the market — namely, that they need not communicate with the carrier at all." - Lyn Jeffery

public radio program on robotics - Lyn Jeffery

Computational sensing is emerging scientific and engineering field that can be defined as process of extraction, analysis and use of knowledge about the instrumented environment and sensed phenomena. Examples include event and anomaly detection, trends tracking, reverse engineering of environment and physical, chemical, and biological laws, identification of actual and virtual sources of excitation, hypothesis checking-driven deployment, causality identification, and generalization of knowledge obtain in multiple environments. Sensing is not just the ultimate objective of embedded sensor networks, but also powerful enabler and facilitator for many sensor network tasks such as deployment and sampling rate determination. - Lyn Jeffery

A child humanoid robot called iCub is helping Swiss scientists study cognition, learning, and mobility - Lyn Jeffery

IEEE blog on robotics and automation - Lyn Jeffery

"A new community resource will be created over three years that consists of six datasets of dense, multi-modal sensor records of activity of volunteers who live in their own homes with sensor instrumentation unobtrusively installed by the researchers for four months. This sensor infrastructure is presently being stress-tested by researchers from multiple fields. Pilot tests have already resulted in a set of tools and procedures for working with participants, maintaining sensing technologies, managing rich datasets, and supporting iterative annotation." - Lyn Jeffery

Jan 2009 journal volume on RFID - Lyn Jeffery

amazing....a whole installation that allows you to sit in, interact, even play your own instrument, with an orchestra. - Lyn Jeffery

Brussels Economic Forum 2009 Beyond the crisis: a changing economic landscape Brussels, May 15, 2009 Robert Holzman, World Bank - Lyn Jeffery

Cool. "The Second Life Enterprise environment provides users an added layer of security and the ability to scale an avatar community. Servers are installed in a company's data center, providing the 3D experience. The service can support up to 800 concurrent avatars. Second Life is made up of regions. Second Life Enterprise has the capacity for eight regions that also run concurrently." - Lyn Jeffery

"ability to edit AR layers, add 3D animations and share edited scenes via social networks like Facebook and Twitter. " Like putting a fake bug in a glass--the example here. - Lyn Jeffery

For centuries, what was important for me was decided in my brain. But now, apparently, it will be decided somewhere else. "In Europe, and in America too — and it's not by chance — we have a crisis of all the systems that somehow are linked to either thinking or to knowledge....here's the question of what to teach, what to learn, and how to learn. Even for universities and schools, suddenly they are confronted with the question how can we teach? What is the brain actually taking? Or the problems which we have with attention deficit and all that, which are reflections and, of course, results, in a way, of the technical revolution??" So many great quotes here! "What is important, what is not important is something very linear, it's something which needs time, at least the structure of time. Now, you have simultaneity, you have everything happening in real time. And this impacts politics in a way which might be considered for the good, but also for the bad." - Lyn Jeffery