Interesting projects in the Cambridge-MIT Partnership Programme
Communications Research Network
Intelligent Book
Internet Security Group
Smart Media - The Flexible Media Prototype Research Experiment
Understanding the Development and Commercialisation of Digital
Technologies
lauantai 26. huhtikuuta 2008
perjantai 25. huhtikuuta 2008
Sources
3. Oxford:
Internet Institute , an academic centre for the study of the societal implications of the Internet.
e-Horizons Project is focused on critically assessing competing visions of the future of media, information and communication technologies and their societal implications. The project’s key strategy is to examine leading-edge developments in the use of information and communication technologies in the sciences and humanities as a window on the future of technology in everyday life.
4. Cambridge:
Communications Research Network: The Cambridge- MIT Institute (Partnership Programme). The communications revolution has engulfed the developed world in the last 20 years. We have moved from a world where communications was dominated by fixed voice communications to a world of mobile communications and widespread data communications for business and leisure use. The pace of change in communications has been breath-taking and shows no signs of letting up.
Internet Institute , an academic centre for the study of the societal implications of the Internet.
e-Horizons Project is focused on critically assessing competing visions of the future of media, information and communication technologies and their societal implications. The project’s key strategy is to examine leading-edge developments in the use of information and communication technologies in the sciences and humanities as a window on the future of technology in everyday life.
4. Cambridge:
Communications Research Network: The Cambridge- MIT Institute (Partnership Programme). The communications revolution has engulfed the developed world in the last 20 years. We have moved from a world where communications was dominated by fixed voice communications to a world of mobile communications and widespread data communications for business and leisure use. The pace of change in communications has been breath-taking and shows no signs of letting up.
perjantai 18. huhtikuuta 2008
Interesting News from Korea
[Korea.net News, Society, April 13 2008] Seoul to host 2009 assembly on news dissemination technology
Korea will host next year's annual assembly of the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) on technical standards for the dissemination of news by news organizations, the Korea NewsML Forum said Sunday (Apr. 13).
The decision was made at a meeting Saturday of executives of the IPTC secretariat based in Windsor, United Kingdom. The IPTC is a consortium of 68 news media across the world organized for the development of news-related technology, the forum said.
Korea will be the second Asian country to host the assembly after Japan.
The forum hoped that the Seoul assembly would help boost the information technology of Korea in the world's news industry.
[The Hankyoreh, May 2 2008] U.S. scholar urges Korean media to diversify, and quickly
Korean media can’t keep up with rapidly changing media environment, professor says
Randy Covington, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of South Carolina in the United States, speaking at a recent seminar in Korea, remarked that changes in the South Korean media are slow compared with changes in its rapidly-developing IT industry. He was in Korea on April 30 at the invitation of The Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute.
Professor Covington observed that the Korean media was unable to keep up with the demands of the general public. Traditional media, including newspapers and television, should change their newsrooms to survive in today’s rapidly changing media environment, the professor added.
[The Chosun Ilbo, April 18 2008] FCC Approves Cell Phone Alert System
Federal regulators in Washington have approved plans to upgrade the nation's Emergency Alert System to include text messages to cellphones and other mobile devices. VOA's Paul Sisco has more in this Searching for Solutions report.
When disaster strikes, the Federal Communications Commission wants to make sure that as many Americans as possible know about it. The Emergency Alert System just approved by the FCC would send out warnings to cell phones about terrorist threats and imminent natural disasters. Law enforcement agencies could also use the system to help find missing children.
Korea will host next year's annual assembly of the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) on technical standards for the dissemination of news by news organizations, the Korea NewsML Forum said Sunday (Apr. 13).
The decision was made at a meeting Saturday of executives of the IPTC secretariat based in Windsor, United Kingdom. The IPTC is a consortium of 68 news media across the world organized for the development of news-related technology, the forum said.
Korea will be the second Asian country to host the assembly after Japan.
The forum hoped that the Seoul assembly would help boost the information technology of Korea in the world's news industry.
[The Hankyoreh, May 2 2008] U.S. scholar urges Korean media to diversify, and quickly
Korean media can’t keep up with rapidly changing media environment, professor says
Randy Covington, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of South Carolina in the United States, speaking at a recent seminar in Korea, remarked that changes in the South Korean media are slow compared with changes in its rapidly-developing IT industry. He was in Korea on April 30 at the invitation of The Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute.
Professor Covington observed that the Korean media was unable to keep up with the demands of the general public. Traditional media, including newspapers and television, should change their newsrooms to survive in today’s rapidly changing media environment, the professor added.
[The Chosun Ilbo, April 18 2008] FCC Approves Cell Phone Alert System
Federal regulators in Washington have approved plans to upgrade the nation's Emergency Alert System to include text messages to cellphones and other mobile devices. VOA's Paul Sisco has more in this Searching for Solutions report.
When disaster strikes, the Federal Communications Commission wants to make sure that as many Americans as possible know about it. The Emergency Alert System just approved by the FCC would send out warnings to cell phones about terrorist threats and imminent natural disasters. Law enforcement agencies could also use the system to help find missing children.
keskiviikko 16. huhtikuuta 2008
Book Publishing Business
With the help of algorithms one can create easily, let´s say 200 000 books. No kidding, Philip M. Parker just did that. As The New York Times argues, it is better to call Mr. Parker compiler than an author.
YouTube: Patent on "Long Tail" for automated content authorship
YouTube: Patent on "Long Tail" for automated content authorship
Sources
1. Digital Media Wire (Mobile): http://www.dmwmedia.com
A daily briefing of the most important news stories about the business of digital media & entertainment.
2. Nicholas Carr's blog on technology, business and culture: http://roughtype.com
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His 2004 book Does IT Matter?, published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. His widely acclaimed new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the rise of "cloud computing" and its implications for business, media and society. (http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/info.shtml)
A daily briefing of the most important news stories about the business of digital media & entertainment.
2. Nicholas Carr's blog on technology, business and culture: http://roughtype.com
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His 2004 book Does IT Matter?, published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. His widely acclaimed new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the rise of "cloud computing" and its implications for business, media and society. (http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/info.shtml)
perjantai 4. huhtikuuta 2008
World's Best Universities
The U.S. is the world's leading higher education super power, and the U.K. follows. This Anglo-American dominance is clear. However, nowadays all the other countries want to build their own harvards, and oxfords, but the task is not that easy. Oxford has its over 800 years of tradition to educate the world´s leaders, and its tutorial system; Harvard has $ 37 billion extra money to invest new initiatives, and scholars.
Here is more about different ranking systems, and their problems:
Wikipedia: Academic Rankings of World's Universities'
The Times: The Top 200 World's Universities
The Economist: Measuring mortarboards
By Katja Heinonen & Turo Uskali
keskiviikko 2. huhtikuuta 2008
Online Newspapers
The Economist, http://www.economist.com/
The Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/home/europe
The Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/public/us
The Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/home/europe
The Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/public/us
University Publications
Oxford, http://www.ox.ac.uk
Cambridge, http://www.cam.ac.uk/
Stanford, http://www.stanford.edu/
Harvard, http://www.harvard.edu/
MIT, http://web.mit.edu/
Oxford Internet Institute:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Berkman Center for Internet and Society:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
Cambridge, http://www.cam.ac.uk/
Stanford, http://www.stanford.edu/
Harvard, http://www.harvard.edu/
MIT, http://web.mit.edu/
Oxford Internet Institute:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Berkman Center for Internet and Society:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/
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