Verizon: Zugriff auf Obamas Mobiltelefon (1)
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Angestellte des US-Mobilfunkkonzerns Verizon haben unerlaubterweise auf die Daten eines privaten Mobilfunkanschlusses von Barack Obama zugegriffen. Das Unternehmen gab das von sich aus zu.
A Future Where Actors are Robots [Future Media] (1)
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The future of entertainment may not be in Hollywood, but in Massachusetts. The MIT Media Lab announced this week that it is launching the Center for Future Storytelling, a research program that will develop new storytelling technologies. The team envisions a future that includes robotic actors and improved motion capture, but also increased democratization and participation, so that stories are told not just by individuals, but by entire communities. The Future for Interactive Storytelling was ...
An Interview with Evan Prodromou, the Developer Behind the Open Source Twitter Clone (1)
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Киберпанк / Когда «особое мнение» становится аксиомой (1)
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Это просто гикоумопомрачительно! Миновав 6 лет после выхода фильма "Особое мнение", несколько неудачных попыток имитации системы управления интерфейсом (которой пользовался Джон Андертон), компанией Stark Oblong Industries была наконец-то создана «G-Speak» — система объектно-ориентированного управления визуальными элементами интерфейса. На языке определений все это называется «spatial operating interface» (SOE), что вольно переводится на отечественный, как «пространственный операционный интерфейс». Как и в нашумевшей киноленте, «оператору» приходится натягивать перчатки с датчиками на кончиках пальцев, позволяющих делать все что угодно ...
Henry Jenkins leaving MIT (2)
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Henry Jenkins, director of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies department, is leaving next year to be a Provost Professor at the University of Southern California. According to a current grad student in CMS, the school is “freezing admissions for next year, and will in all likelihood end its graduate program.” Their lecture series is one of the highlights of living in Boston. Check out the podcasts.
Oblong g-speak: Minority Report UI Was Always Real (48)
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g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo. After having seen the above video you will undoubtedly make direct comparisons to what was seen in Minority Report, and that’s no coincidence. John Underkoffler, one of Oblong’s co-founders, was the science advisor on the film and built much of what we saw in the movie from what he was working on at MIT. The gesture-based g-speak “spatial operating interface” (SOE) software platform has been in development ...
地獄生活初體驗 (1)
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才剛進入開學第三個禮拜，我已經非常深刻體會到哈佛大橋上所指的「地獄」是怎麼回事了….。 我記得以前在台大時，直到期中考前幾天，才會在同學間看出比較緊張的氣氛，大家開始相約去唸書，在師大夜市裡的咖啡店邊聊天邊準備期中考。在台灣考場打滾十幾年，每個人都身經百戰，區區一個期中考期末考也不過是拼個兩三天就能唸完的小考試，根本沒人在怕的。至於其他的作業和project呢，反正大多也只是一兩個晚上的份量，即使習慣拖到最後一天的人，熬個夜也都還是能來得及做完。 在出國前，早就耳聞美國大學課程驚人的份量和紮實的程度，但百聞還是不如一見，親身體驗後才知道這種生活有多可怕…。我這學期只修了兩門課，Machine Learning在星期一、三中午，另一門Database在星期二、四中午。Machine Learning自從上一堂課開始，我就已經開始沒辦法在上課時聽懂教授到底在講什麼，只好趁下一次上課前再自己複習趕快追上進度。本來還以為自己太笨，後來發現其實很多人也都開始沒辦法搞懂上課的內容（你以為MIT每個人都是數學天才嗎，別開玩笑了XD），教授就像開了加速器一樣批哩啪拉的一直狂寫數學式，下課後總覺得自己已經瀕臨精神衰弱邊緣，更慘的是我還是得趕快搞懂上課內容，不然不但作業寫不出來下堂課還會繼續聽不懂，實在沒有比這更悲慘的事了..。 其實也不是沒有更悲慘的事，就在我自認為前幾次上課都還聽得懂的時候，第一次作業就出現了。這作業乍看之下只有三題，可是每一題裡面又分了個四、五個小題，剛拿到時稍微瞄過覺得似乎不會太難，誰知道實際做下去才發現這根本不是一兩個晚上可以寫完的，每一題其實都是以前台大一份作業的份量。就這樣在三倍量的作業轟炸下，昨天的中秋節我就把整天都奉獻給這個作業了，只是讓人覺得更想哭的是，我其實還寫不到一半………。 相較於Machine Learning的地獄，Database只能說是輕鬆愜意。教授上課還蠻有趣的，不但一邊說SQL真是爛到爆，還會一直嘲諷微軟和Oracle等大象公司。（後來才知道這個教授其實就是PostgreSQL的原作者……）。雖然Database上課時挺享受的，但上課前就不太有趣了。因為Database每次都指定了一大堆的論文或課文要在上課前看完，不看又不行，誰也不想在大家都很熱烈討論的課堂上突然被問了問題卻只能回個囧給老師看吧…。 兩門課交錯著上，每天上完課、meeting完（對，我每天都要meeting!!!），不是得趕快複習，不然就得趕快準備下一門課，更糟的是現在還得加上趕作業，因為每個禮拜都會有作業……………Q_Q 除了上課外，我還是領系上薪水的博士生，不用付學費又有錢拿的代價就是我得乖乖跟指導教授作研究寫論文，所以除了應付這兩門課外還得一邊作research project、每天參加meeting、每個禮拜還得報告些東西讓我看起來像有在認真做事的樣子。可是我光兩門課的作業都快搞不定了，哪裡有時間去作研究啊，偏偏指導教授才不管學生修課的死活，反正即使被當掉研究還是得繼續做….。 唉，為什麼，為什麼現在明明才剛進入第三個禮拜，我卻已經有種生不如死的毀滅感呢..Q_Q 這就是所謂的地獄嗎？
Google SketchUp 7 released (5)
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Just released, Google SketchUp 7 (for PC and Mac) is free and features some impressive-looking new features. Here's the obligatory Google YouTube announcement for us the ADDled generation: Most relevant for Google Earth users is the much tighter integration with the Google 3D Warehouse: You can search the warehouse from within SketchUp and import models directly. Sharing and and giving credit for your work is now also much more granular. SketchUp 7 also introduces Dynamic ...
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tighter 3DWarehouse integration, Dynamic Components (objects which can be given dynamic attributes and simple physics).
MIT的豆腐駭客 (1)
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在MIT可以遇到各種奇奇怪怪的人，有很多是傳說中的大人物，像是發明WWW的Tim Berners-Lee就跟我在同一棟樓裡工作，即使在廁所裡遇到也不是很奇怪的事情。也有很多乍看之下就像一般學生，但認識後其實才發現他的一連串驚人事蹟， 像是跟我一起修Machine Learning和Database的同學Ted，竟然已經寫了好幾本書…。 到目前為止，我認識一個最神奇的人是一個叫Dheera的印度學生。他雖然看起來是個標準的印度人，但他說英文沒有印度口音，更扯的是他竟然會說中文，而且不只是能用中文跟我聊天，連讀寫（簡體）中文都沒問題，甚至還會用拼音輸入法打字。他非常熱愛中國文化和中國食物，他今年暑假就自己一個人跑去北京，一路坐火車到新疆，就這樣在中國自己闖蕩了一個多月。 一個會說中文的印度人已經讓人夠驚訝了，但後來跟他去逛中國超市時，才發現他不但對蔥薑蒜等中國食材瞭若指掌，而且還告訴我他其實還會自己做豆腐！！他說超市賣的豆腐不好吃又貴，所以他都自己做，他甚至還為了豆腐而自己做了製作中需要用到的特殊容器。 除了會做豆腐外，他的房間裡還掛了兩個大大的紅色燈籠。很特別的是，從他的窗外遠遠看會覺得燈籠裡面好像是蠟燭，火光會不定時的些微閃爍，但真正的秘密是：那兩個燈籠裡面是燈泡，可是加上他自己寫的控制晶片讓兩個燈泡有忽明忽暗的效果，一切就是為了讓燈籠裡看起來像是真的有蠟燭一樣！！ 我只能說Dheera真是讓我大開眼界，真沒想到MIT除了有很厲害的科學家和工程師外，竟然還有這種會說中文的豆腐駭客…。（我想他上輩子一定是中國人…）
Back-to-School Season for Your Immune Cells (12)
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This adorable little ant can be trusted to carry quite a lot on its back in the interest of the common good. In that way, it's surprisingly similar to the cells of your immune system, as researchers from MIT and Harvard revealed earlier this month. They've found a way to hook synthetic patches to the surface of B and T cells — and to control the movements of those cells with magnetic fields. Armed with ...
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