Broader Perspective

The AAAI spring symposia held at Stanford University in March provide a nice look at the potpourri of innovative projects in process aro...

One of the leading digital media foundations in the San Francisco Bay Area, GAFFTA, the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, held a hackath...

The Learning Mode: Critical Issues in Online Education at UC Berkeley March 15-16, 2013 squarely addressed the future of learning . Most...

Any prominent societal ‘currency’ is taken up by artists (and technologists and engineers) as an experimental medium. "Every culture...

The layer of quantified self (QS) gadgetry starting to surround us (but not encircle us in the Heideggerian sense) is driving both the mi...

One aspect of 21st century data literacy is realizing that there is not just more data , but also that there are new kinds of data . ...

The first International Academic Polyamory Conference was held in Berkeley CA February 15-17, 2013 with approximately 100 attendees. Polya...

A core 21st century skillset is data literacy, meaning the ability to recognize, understand, and manipulate various forms of data. One wa...

In the burgeoning Quantified Self (QS) movement , one recent trend is the emergence of tools explicitly for the conduct of QS experiments...

Crowd resource models continue to grow as “on-demand third-party asset rental platforms” become their own sector. Some of the most fam...