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Press Clippings

The initial listing of new clippings was culled from a variety of sources, including the NY Times, PC World, Technology Review, InfoWorld, Wired, etc.

We'd love to see your clippings here as well! Please use the edit link above to add more (see format notes), or add comments on how or why you think they may or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon Project Wiki, we ask you to identify items you think are of high interest to us, as I have here [LJ], as a means of helping start the sifting process.

Recommended Reading

  • Motion-Sensing Comes to Mobile Phones
    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6169697.html
    The same technology used in Nintendo's popular Wii video game console that lets you bowl strikes and hit tennis volleys like you're Venus Williams is also making its way into mobile handsets. (watch this one- coming to ANZ care of the iPhone on 11th July) [LJ][AL][WF][Atho]
  • Smartphones are the PCs of the developing world
    http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19526156.300
    Smartphones may seem like a frivolous indulgence for rich westerners, but it turns out that their added features can be harnessed to help people in poorer countries do business, educate their children, etc. [AL] [JM]
  • Quintura
    http://www.quintura.com/
    Neural-net type search engine. Visual searching and tools are becoming widely used as interactive projection technologies are integrated into lectures. [LK] [JM]
  • Smart Internet CRC
    http://www.smartinternet.com.au/
    Smart Internet will combine research in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Social Interaction and Network Development to create enabling technologies for smart Internet applications that will allow users and network providers to manage the complexity of the Internet. [JM]
  • EduSim 3D
    http://edusim3d.com/
    Edusim is a free opensource 3D multi-user virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard [JM]



A Gartner analyst predicts the demise of the computer mouse in the next three to five years. [KG]

  • Holographic handsets on the market by 2010
    Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company. By 2010 the devices will routinely beam 3D films, games and virtual goods into our laps according to Indian technology giant Infosys, which has patented the handset.
    http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39437065,00.htm?r=6 [LK] [AL]
  • A web 2.0 tool for international medical collaborative research"
    From The Lancet 2008; 371:1837-1838. I think we should watch the clinical space for I.T. impact beyond diagnostics and into research & collaboration
    http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608607941/fulltext
    The BMJ runs regular "Information in practice" segments that look at computer based clinical decision support systems. Would be interesting to note how they are progressing. Do we have any clinical folks on the team? [Atho]
  • Computer servers 'as bad' for climate as SUVs"
    One wonders if with the political and public focus on climate change, if HPC clusters or server rooms will come under the politically correct microscope or at least more emphasis on R & D on power consumption may develop ?
    http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12992 [Atho]
  • Kenexa Launches Virtual World for Customer Service Testing
    http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/06/kenexa-launches.html
    Kenexa, a workforce retention specialist, launched SimSJT: Customer Service today, an online 3D environment, compared to The Sims and Second Life, for measuring abilities at providing customer service.
  • DimP
    http://www.aviz.fr/dimp/
    DimP is a video player prototype that allows to browse video clips by directly manipulating their content.
  • Web 3.0 (Technology Review)
    http://www.technologyreview.com/special/web3/
    New technologies are changing the infrastructure of the Web, turning fragmented data sources into searchable wholes. Computers will gain the intelligence to understand, organize, and draw conclusions from online data.

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