Emerging Technologies

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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 or Commented Upon

  • Alice 3.0 set to release in Spring 2009
    http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=alice3_progress_report
    This long awaited release of Alice 3.0 is rumored to bring true 3D programming to all levels of computer science and programming education. This is being tested in house at Carnegie Mellon Fall Semester 2008 for release in Spring Semester 2009 and full release Summer 2009. Part of the increasing movement towards Web 3D and virtual reality spaces.[WF] [BJ] [AL]
  • Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/23/amazon-confirms-student-version-of-kindle/
    Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks.[DMc] [BJ] [MH] [KC]
  • Aqros
    http://blog.aqros.com/
    Our vision is to connect virtual people across (Aqros) worlds and games on any platform (PC, web, and mobile). Our current version is a mobile service that allows users of Second Life to continue their virtual life experience from their mobile phones.
  • BitTorrent: An Educational Autopsy of the Hydra
    http://bavatuesdays.com/bittorrent-an-educational-autopsy-of-the-hydra/
    I have been fascinated with the technology for years now, and have always wondered how educational institutions can, for the most part, categorically deny or ignore ways of distributed sharing that is currently revolutionizing the means of delivering media more effectively and efficiently than anything else out there.
  • EduSim 3D
    http://edusim3d.com/
    Edusim is a free opensource 3D multi-user virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard [RogerB] [MH] [JC] [KC]
  • Freepath
    http://www.freepath.com/
    Freepath is one of the increasing number of websites that allow professionals and students to seamlessly "mash up" all types of multimedia including Slides, Movies, Flickr, Google and all types of media files. [BJ][MH][JC][Guus][ER]
  • Making Terms of Service Clearer
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/making-terms-of-service-clearer.html
    Google Chrome has launched creating a firestorm of debate about their web browser. The launch of Chrome AND the impending launch of Google Android for the cell phone coupled with the EULA from Google will cause increasing debates on the ownership of information and perhaps some conflicts between college intellectual property and the companies who are involved in publication of results in a Web 2 manner.
  • Mapufacture
    http://mapufacture.com/
    Mapufacture provides dynamic, customizable geographic information and collaborative mapping. [JC]
  • 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
  • Online Social Networking on Campus
    http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/08/network
    Student affairs administrators are increasingly debating how to use Facebook and other social networking tools — and whether and how to monitor student use. A new book — Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture (Routledge) — aims to offer some guidance. The authors... responded to e-mail questions about the book. [BJ] [MH]
  • Open Education Resources Commons
    http://www.oercommons.org/
    OER Commons offers new ways to find and engage with freely accessible educational materials. [RogerB] [MH][JC]
  • Posterous
    http://www.posterous.com/
    Posterous is an example of new tools that are "gateway" tools that harness email to make publishing on the Internet easier. Posterous lets a person create a blog from email without having to go into any type of blogging interface. Entry into Web 2.0 tools is becoming less technical and easier.[KC][Guus][MH]
  • 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. [KC]
  • Technique Developed to Capture Human Movement in 3D
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080812100331.htm
    3D virtual world input devices to capture movement of human extremities are increasingly the topic of research as with this example. Interfacing with virtual worlds will become less "video game" like and more natural as these devices move into academia.
  • Test Preparation for Your Mobile Device
    http://www.simpleleap.com/cram.htm
    Cram is one of an emerging set of tools allowing learning to happen in a mobile way. This allows professors and students to share notes on a mobile phone platform. [RogerB] [BJ] [MH]
  • UC San Diego computer scientist turns his face into a remote control
    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/uoc--usd062408.php
    A Ph.D. student can turn his face into a remote control that speeds and slows video playback. The proof-of-concept demonstration is part of a larger project to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers. [BJ][KC]
  • 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.
  • Web of Fate
    http://www.weboffate.com/
    A social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future events.

It seems that every day, there are new announcements purporting to redefine how we will use our cell phones: from the latest GPS-enabled gadget for social computing, to software to make your PC a phone. But what is the real future of telephony?

  • Zoetrope searches the historical Web
    http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=45255/
    The Internet contains vast amounts of information, much of it unorganized. But what you see online at any given moment is just a snapshot of the Web as a whole -- many pages change rapidly or disappear completely, and the old data gets lost forever.Now, Adar and his colleagues at UW and Adobe Systems Inc. are grabbing hold of the fleeting Web and storing historical sites that users can easily search using an intuitive application called Zoetrope.With Zoetrope, anyone will be able to use easy keyword searches to find archived Web information or look for patterns over time.


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